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Suzy Klein

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Suzy Klein plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1100 Essential Five – another of our picks of Puccini's arias.

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

3 hours

Last on

Tue 7 Sep 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Keyboard Concerto in D major H.18.2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Leif Ove Andsnes - a portrait.
    • EMI.
    • 9.
  • François Couperin

    Les baricades misterieuses (Pieces de clavecin - ordre no.6)

    Performer: Jean Rondeau. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Barricades.
    • ERATO.
  • Luiz Bonfá

    Manhã de Carnaval

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Daniel Ottensamer. Performer: Ernst Ottensamer. Performer: František Jánoška.
    • DG.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Ritual Fire Dance (El Amor Brujo)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Harmonia mundi.
  • Turlough O'Carolan

    Carolan's Cup

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Music Arranger: Barokksolistene. Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 111.
  • Pawel Lukaszewski

    Ave Maria

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Signum.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Capriccio italien Op.45

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Classic FM.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Trio Sonata from 'A Musical Offering' BWV.1079 (2nd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Raaf Hekkema. Performer: Arthur Klaassens. Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet.
    • Bach's Musical Offerings.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 301.
  • Stephen Sondheim

    Send in the Clowns (A Little Night Music)

    Music Arranger: Tom Poster. Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Send In the Clowns (From "A Little Night Music") [Arr. T. Poster for Violin & Pi.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 101.
  • Édouard Du Puy

    Bassoon Concerto in C Minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Bram van Sambeek. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Alexei Ogrintchouk.
    • Mozart, Weber & Du Puy: Bassoon Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 303.
  • Henriette Renié

    Trio for harp, violin and cello (4th mvt)

    Performer: Antoine Bareil. Performer: Stéphane Tétreault. Performer: Valérie Milot.
    • Analekta.
  • Richard Strauss

    4 Last Songs (September)

    Singer: Jessye Norman. Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto no.3 in A major Wq.172 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Andreas Brantelid. Orchestra: Concerto Copenhagen. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
    • NAXOS.
  • Morten Lauridsen

    Ov' è, lass', il bel viso? (6 Madrigali - 'Fire songs')

    Choir: Chamber Choir of Europe. Conductor: Nicol Matt.
    • DG.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Prelude in D flat major 'Raindrop' (24 Preludes Op.28)

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Chopin: 26 Preludes Scherzo NR. 2 - Martha Argerich.
    • DG.
    • 15.
  • Henry Purcell

    The Witches' Dance (Dido and Aeneas)

    Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants Orchestra. Conductor: William Christie.
    • Erato.
  • Gustav Holst

    Dance of Spirits of Fire (The Perfect Fool)

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Vision 1 "The fire of creation": Et audivi

    Ensemble: Anonymous 4.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet no.1 in G Minor Op.25 (4th mvt)

    Orchestrator: Arnold Schoenberg. Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Jaime Martín.
    • Brahms: Piano Quartet in G Minor (Orch. A. Schoenberg) - Parry: Elegy for Brahms.
    • Ondine.
    • 104.
  • Marin Marais

    Chaconne (Pieces en trio - suite no.1 in C major)

    Performer: William Hunt. Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.
    • Marin Marais 'La folia' & other music for viols and violins The Purcell Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Nessun dorma (Turandot)

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Choir: The John Alldis Choir. Choir: Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Turandot Highlights.
    • Decca.
    • 11.
  • Jeff Scott

    Papitou's Blues

    Ensemble: Imani Winds.
    • Josephine Baker - A Life Of Le Jazz Hot!.
    • KOCH.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Les Chemins de L'amour

    Ensemble: Van Kuijk Quartet.
    • ѿý New Generation Artists recording.
  • Dora Pejačević

    Symphony in F sharp minor Op.41 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland‐Pfalz. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.
    • Dora Pejacevic Symphony.
    • CPO.
    • 3.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    O clap your hands; God is gone up

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Voces 8: A Choral Taspestry.
    • Signum Classics.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue in F major Op.10

    Performer: Tom Poster. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 17.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Ogni vento (Agrippina)

    Singer: Ann Hallenberg. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro. Director: Riccardo Minasi.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor Op.17 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.

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