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Suzy Klein with Essential Murray Perahia, Richard Strauss's Dreaming by the Fireside

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 performances by the great pianist Murray Perahia.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Paul Jeanjean

    Clair matin

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • Music for Clarinet and Piano: Bliss/Quentin.
    • EMI.
  • William Brade

    Ein Schottisch Tanz

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Traditional Norwegian

    Kling no, klokka (Ring now church bells)

    Performer: Inger Lise Ulsrud. Choir: Women's Choral Society of the University of Oslo. Director: Marit TΓΈndel Bodsberg Weyde.
    • LAWO.
  • Sven Helbig

    Bell Sound Falling Like Snow

    Ensemble: FaurΓ© Quartett. Orchestra: MDR Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Kristjan JΓ€rvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Richard Strauss

    Dreaming by the Fireside (4 Symphonic Interludes from 'Intermezzo')

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Franz Schmidt Symphony No.2 Richard Strauss Dreaming by the Fireside Wiener Phil.
    • Sony.
    • 004.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 38 in C major (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Trevor Pinnock. Orchestra: The English Concert.
    • Archiv.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Fantasy for Horn Quintet in A minor

    Performer: Stephen Stirling. Ensemble: RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet.
    • Helios.
  • Franz Schubert

    Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D 774 arr Hope

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Sebastian Knauer.
    • The Romantic Violinist, A celebration of Joseph Joachim: Daniel Hope.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • John Field

    Piano Sonata in E flat major, Op 1 No 1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: MΓ­Δ‹eΓ‘l O'Rourke.
    • John Field: Four Piano Sonatas: Miceal O'Rourke.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No 5 in B flat, Op.100: 4) Allegro giocoso

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Lawo.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cum dederit dilectis (Nisi Dominus, RV 608)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Ensemble: Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Dyer.
    • Decca.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Trio in D minor, Op.3 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Meyer. Performer: Zvi Plesser. Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • Alpha.
  • Jean Mouton

    Nesciens mater virgo virum for 8 voices

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Pilgrimage To Santiago.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.
    • 17.
  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto grosso in F major Op.1`7

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Harmonia mundi.
  • Robert Schumann

    Am Kamin (Kinderszenen, Op 15)

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Kinderszenen / Kreisleriana.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Songs of Travel: The Roadside Fire

    Singer: Neal Davies. Orchestra: Halle. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel/Job.
    • Halle.
    • 3.
  • Claude Debussy

    ΈιΓͺ±Ή±π°ωΎ±±π

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • Noriko Ogawa - Debussy Piano Music, Volume 5.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • JoaquΓ­n Turina

    Danzas fantΓ‘sticas, Op. 22: EnsueΓ±o

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Chandos.
  • Max Reger

    Scherzo (Romantic Suite)

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Lyon Opera Soloists.
    • Schoenberg: Kaiserwalzer and other Transcriptions: Soliste de l'Opera National d.
    • Erato.
    • 2.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D minor Kk.89

    Performer: Avi Avital. Performer: Ophira Zakai. Performer: Patrick Sepec. Performer: Yizhar Karshon.
    • Art of the Mandolin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Impromptu in G flat major Op.51

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Chopin: Murray Perahia plays Chopin.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.
  • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

    Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Jun MΓ€rkl.
    • Saint-SaΓ«ns: Symphonic Poems.
    • Naxos.
    • 401.
  • Jehan Alain

    Chanson a bouche fermee

    Choir: Camerata Saint Louis.
    • Arion.
  • Avraham Goldfaden

    Rozhinkes mit Mandelen

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Χ“Χ‘ (Χ“Χ•Χ‘Χ™) Χ–ΧœΧ¦Χ¨.
    • Tradition.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 106.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Heute noch, heute noch (Cantata no.211 "Kaffee-Kantata")

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas: Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
    • 18.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Variations in G Major, WoO. 45 on Handel's "See, the Conqu'ring Hero comes" (Jud

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Beethoven: Complete Works for Violoncello and Piano.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 106.

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