
Suzy Klein
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 Musicians recommend their favourite recordings.
1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five settings of poems by Thomas Hardy.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Piano Sonata No 1 in C major, Op 24 (4th mvt)
Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.- Weber: Complete Piano Sonatas: Garrick Ohlsson.
- Hyperion.
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Andrea Falconieri
Il primo libro (Excerpts): No. 15, Passacalle
Ensemble: Cembaless.- Passacaglia della vita.
- Naxos.
- 1301.
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Robert Parsons
Ave Maria
Director: Philip Cave. Choir: Magnificat Choir.- Where late the sweet birds sang: Latin Music form Tudor England.
- Linn.
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Carl Nielsen
Love and the Poet Op.54 (Overture)
Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.- Carl Nielsen: Orchestral music: Danish National Symphony Orch/Dausgaard.
- Dacapo.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mass in C Minor, K. 427 "Great" (Reconstr. C. Kemme): IIb. Laudamus te [Live]
Singer: Anke Vondung. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Howard Arman.- Mozart: Mass in C Minor, K. 427 "Great" (Reconstr. C. Kemme).
- BR-Klassik.
- 202.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Valse-Caprice, d'après 'l'Etude en forme de valse'
Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Daniel Harding.- VIRGIN CLASSICS.
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Bright Sheng
Zodiac Tales (2016 Version): II. Of Mice and Cats
Orchestra: Shanghai Municipal Committee Band. Conductor: Bright Sheng.- Bright Sheng: Let Fly, Zodiac Tales & Suzhou Overture.
- Naxos.
- 202.
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Alexander Borodin
Polovtsian Dances
Choir: Czech Philharmonic Choir, Brno. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.- Channel Classics.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Prelude and Fugue in F major, Op 87 No 23
Performer: Alexander Melnikov.- Shostakovich The Preludes & Fugues Alexander Melnikov Piano.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 21.
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George Frideric Handel
Va col canto (Cor Fedele [Clori, Tirsi et Fileno])
Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.- Clori, Tirsi e Fileno.
- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet No 6 in F minor, Op 80
Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.- ERATO.
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Philip Glass
Les Enfants Terribles: Suite - 3. The Somnambulist
Ensemble: Katia & Marielle Labèque.- DG.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (Cantata No 20)
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists.- Bach Choruses - Gardiner.
- SDG.
- 11.
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César Franck
Psyché - III. Les jardins d'Eros
Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud.- Naxos.
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Carl Nielsen
Humoresque-Bagatelles, Op 11 (No 2, 'Spinning Top')
Performer: Martin Roscoe.- Carl Nielsen: Complete piano music: Martin Roscoe.
- Hyperion.
- 21.
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Maurice Ravel
L' Enfant et les Sortileges (Garden Scene)
Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- EMI.
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Barbara Strozzi
Amor dormiglione Op.2 no.22
Singer: Suzie LeBlanc. Ensemble: Ensemble Constantinople.- ANALEKTA.
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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.
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Juan Bautista José Cabanilles
Corrente italiana despacio
Ensemble: Harp Consort. Director: Andrew Lawrence‐King.- Missa Mexicana.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Ian Venables
A Kiss, Op.15
Singer: Roderick Williams. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.- SIGNUM CLASSICS.
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Maurice Ravel
Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie
Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.- Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye, Le tombeau de Couperin & Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie.
- harmonia mundi.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
2 Pieces for piano 6 hands
Performer: Alexander Melnikov. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Performer: Aleksandar Madžar.- Tharaud Plays Rachmaninov.
- Erato.
- 10-11.
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Andrea Tarrodi
Madárdal - String Quartet no.2 (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: The Dahlkvist Quartet.- Andrea Tarrodi: String Quartets.
- db Productions.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15: II. Largo (Live)
Performer: Igor Levit. Orchestra: Kölner Kammerorchester. Conductor: Helmut Müller‐Brühl.- Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Live).
- Naxos.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in D major, Op.64`5 'The Lark' (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.- AVI MUSIC.
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