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Suzy Klein with Tasmin Little, Stravinsky's Apollon Musagete, Essential South American music

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Essential Classics - the best in classical music, with Suzy Klein.

0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Well known musicians reveal their favourite performers.

1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five great pieces of music by South American composers.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Henryk Wieniawski

    Scherzo-tarantelle in G minor, Op.16

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.
    • Wieniawski, Sarasate: James Ehnes, Eduard Laurel.
    • CBC Records.
  • Max Bruch

    Die Loreley Op.16 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Treviño.
    • Bruch: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 & Overtures.
    • CPO.
    • 401.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wind Octet in E flat major, Op.103 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Beethoven: Octet etc.: Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble.
    • EMI.
    • 4.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Coda: Apollo and the Muses (Apollon Musagete)

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite, Apollon musagète & Concerto for Strings in D Major.
    • BIS.
    • 18 - 19.
  • Robert Schumann

    Arabeske in C major, Op.18

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
    • Schumann: Fantasie/Kreisleriana/Arabeske: Jonathan Biss.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.
  • Burt Bacharach

    South American Getaway (Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid)

    Music Arranger: Valter Dešpalj. Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • South American Getaway: 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker/Banse.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 13.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Trio no.1 Op.8

    Ensemble: Trio Karénine.
    • Chostakovitch, Dvořák & Weinberg.
    • Mirare.
    • 1.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Recorder Concerto in C major TWV.51:C1 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Dan Laurin. Performer: Mark Caudle. Ensemble: Arte dei Suonatori.
    • G.P. Telemann: Overture & 3 Concertos: Laurin/Caudle/Arte dei Suonatori.
    • BIS.
    • 19.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborado del gracioso (Miroirs)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Ravel: Sheherazade; Ma Mere l'Oye; La Valse: BSO/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • Louis Spohr

    Nonet in F major, Op.31 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Spohr: Nonet and Octet: Nash Ensemble.
    • CRD.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ Sonata in E minor, BWV.528 (2nd mvt)

    Music Arranger: August Stradal. Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • DG.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Violin Concerto in G minor, Op.80 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • British Violin Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Claude Debussy

    Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's Corner)

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • Debussy: The Solo Piano Works: Noriko Ogawa.
    • BIS.
    • 17.
  • Sergey Taneyev

    The Temple of Apollo at Delphi (The Oresteia)

    Orchestra: Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Sanderling.
    • Naxos.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Young Apollo, Op.16

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Elizabeth Layton. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • HYPERION.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Gloria (Mass for 4 Voices)

    Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble.
    • ECM.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no.2 in E minor Op.27 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 2.
  • Gabriela Montero

    Piano Concerto no.1 'Latin Concerto' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Gabriela Montero. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Americas. Conductor: Carlos Miguel Prieto.
    • Ravel.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 3.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Tota pulchra es

    Singer: Christopher Nehaul. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Performer: Dónal McCann. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Bruckner: Mass in E Minor, Motets.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 108.
  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Armide (Act 5,Passecaille)

    Ensemble: Café Zimmermann.
    • ALPHA.
  • Richard Strauss

    Serenade in E flat major, Op.7

    Ensemble: Ensemble à vent Paris Bastille. Director: François Leleux.
    • Francois Leleux - Richard Strauss.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Michael Tippett

    Concerto for Double String Orchestra (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Michael Tippett: Sonatas, Quartets, Double Concerto.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Witold Lutosławski

    Variations on a theme of Paganini

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Rachmaninov:Suite No.2 /Ravel a Valse/Lutoslawski:/Paganini Variations - Argeric.
    • Philips.
    • 6.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Berceuse (6 Pieces Op.79)

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Performer: Nicola Eimer.
  • Johan Svendsen

    Norwegian rhapsody no.3 Op.21

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Johan Svendsen: Orchestral works vol.2: Bergen Philharmonic/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Wed 14 Oct 2020 09:00