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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 We celebrate the music of Astor Piazzolla, the centenary of whose birth falls this week.

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

3 hours

Last on

Tue 9 Mar 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • DG.
  • Manuel de Falla

    La Vida breve (Danse espagnole no.1)

    Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler. Performer: Jack Liebeck. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • Hyperion.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    La Cupis (Pieces de clavecin en concerts - concert no.5)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Debussy/Rameau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 20.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Les Bayaderes

    Singer: Brigitte Desnoues. Choir: Paris Sorbonne Chorus. Orchestra: Paris Sorbonne Orchestra. Conductor: Jacques Grimbert.
    • Marco Polo.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Brass Quintet no.1 Op.73 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Stockholm Chamber Brass.
    • BIS.
  • Zoltán Kodály

    Dances of Marosszek

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • HUNGAROTON.
  • Joaquín Turina

    Escena andaluza Op.7 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Nash Ensemble.
    • Turina Chamber Music The Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D Major, TWV.54:D3

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Telemann: Concerti per molti stromenti.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1 - 4.
  • Michael Haydn

    Christus factus est

    Choir: MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig. Conductor: Philipp Ahmann.
    • Anton Bruckner & Michael Haydn: Motets.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 1301.
  • Michael Torke

    Purple (Ecstatic Orange)

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Argo.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance no.1 in G major Op.40

    Performer: Uto Ughi. Orchestra: I Solisti Veneti. Conductor: Claudio Scimone.
    • Dynamic.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    O cessate di piagarmi (Il Pompeo)

    Music Arranger: Nora Fischer. Music Arranger: Marnix Dorrestein. Singer: Nora Fischer. Performer: Marnix Dorrestein.
    • HUSH.
    • DG.
    • 1.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Waltz in A flat major, Op.38

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Dances - Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Decca.
    • 14.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Damoiselle élue (opening)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Thomas Arne

    Where the bee sucks (The Tempest)

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • The pure voice of Emma Kirkby.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Chant Hindou from Sadko

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • Unexpected Songs.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Emilio Pujol Vilarrubi

    El Abejorro

    Performer: Narciso Yepes.
    • DG.
  • Jean-Baptiste Singelée

    Grand Quatour Concertant, Op.79

    Ensemble: Ferio Saxophone Quartet.
    • FLUX.
    • Chandos.
    • 001.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Scherzo no.2 in B flat minor Op.31

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Chopin: 26 Preludes Scherzo NR. 2 - Martha Argerich.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 29.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Fuga y Misterio

    Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no.3 in E flat major Op.10 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Dvorak - Complete Symphonies and Concertos.
    • DECCA.
    • 001.
  • Franz Schubert

    Das Fischermädchen (Schwanengesang D.957)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • An die Musik.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Andrea Tarrodi

    String quartet no.2 "Madárdal" (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: The Dahlkvist Quartet.
    • Andrea Tarrodi: String Quartets.
    • db Productions.
    • 3.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Cherubic Hymn no.1 (9 Sacred pieces)

    Choir: St. Petersburg Chamber Choir. Conductor: Николай Корнев.
    • DG.
  • José White Lafitte

    Violin Concerto in F sharp minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Barton Pine. Orchestra: Encore Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Hege.
    • Cedille.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon a 10 S.137 [1615 no.15]

    Performer: Andreas Sieling. Ensemble: Berlin Brass. Conductor: Lucas Vis.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Mirare.

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