
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Schumann's Abegg variations, Jack Liebeck, Essential mezzo sopranos
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Suzy Klein.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Well known musicians reveal their personal favourite performers.
1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great mezzo-sopranos.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
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Zoltán Kodály
Intermezzo (Hary Janos Suite Op.35a)
Performer: Laurence Kaptain. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jarvi.
- Chandos.
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Robert Fuchs
Violin Sonata no.2 in D Major, Op.33: 3rd movt - Finale. Allegro giocoso
Performer: Hyejin Chung. Performer: Warren Lee.- Fuchs: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3.
- Naxos.
- 6.
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Jean Sibelius
The Oceanides, Op 73
Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.- Sibelius.
- Linn Records.
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Alessandro Striggio
Mass "Ecco si beato giorno" (Agnus dei)
Choir: Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Director: Geoffrey Webber. Choir: Armonico Consort. Conductor: Christopher Monks.- Supersize Polyphony.
- Signum Classics.
- 011.
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Robert Schumann
Abegg variations Op.1
Performer: Alexandra Dariescu.- Champs Hill Records.
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Souvenir d'une nuit d'été à Madrid
Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.- Chandos.
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Florence Price
5 Folksongs in Counterpoint (Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes)
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Claude Debussy
Pagodes (Estampes)
Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.- Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
- Decca.
- 13.
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George Frideric Handel
Ode for St Cecilia's day (What passion cannot music raise and quell!)
Singer: Simone Kermes. Ensemble: Collegium Cartusianum. Conductor: Peter Neumann.- CARUS.
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Christopher Headington
Violin Concerto (1st mvt)
Performer: Xue Wei. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jane Glover.- ASV.
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Carl Nielsen
String Quintet in G major (4th mvt)
Performer: Tim Frederiksen. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.- Carl Nielsen: String Quartets Vol.1.
- Da Capo.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Magic Flute (Overture)
Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Edward Elgar
Allegretto on G-E-D-G-E
Performer: Marat Bisengaliev. Performer: Benjamin Frith.- Elgar: The Violin Music: Marat Bisengaliev.
- Naxos.
- 13.
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Lars‐Erik Larsson
Concertino for horn and strings, Op 45 No 5
Performer: Sören Hermansson. Orchestra: Umeå Sinfonietta. Conductor: Edvard Tjivzjel.- Horn Concertos: Hermansson, Umea Sinfonietta.
- BIS.
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Nancy Dalberg
String Quartet No.1 in D minor (2nd mvt: Scherzo: Allegretto gracioso)
Ensemble: Nordic String Quartet.- Dalberg: The String Quartets.
- Dacapo.
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Gioachino Rossini
Una voce poco fa (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Orchestra: Orchestra La Scintilla. Conductor: 8 Bit.- Sospiri: Cecilia Bartoli.
- Decca.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Oboe Sonata in D major
Performer: Gareth Hulse. Performer: Ian Brown.- HYPERION.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Rondo in B flat major for piano and orchestra, WoO 6
Performer: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- WARNER.
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John Dowland
Sir John Smith, his Almain
Performer: Paul O’Dette.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Peteris Vasks
The Fruit of Silence
Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Orchestra: Sinfonietta Rīga. Conductor: Sigvards Kļava.- Vasks: Laudate Dominum.
- Ondine.
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Pablo de Sarasate
Navarra Op.33
Performer: Chloë Hanslip. Performer: Mikhail Ovrutsky. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.- Bruch - Violin Concertos nos. 1 & 3: Sarasate - Navarra.
- WARNER CLASSICS.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in G major, K 260
Performer: Anne Queffélec.- MIRARE.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances, Op.45 (no.2)
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.- Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, The Isle of the Dead, The Rock.
- Avie.
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- Tue 8 Sep 2020 09:00ѿý Radio 3