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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 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.

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Fri 11 Dec 2020 09:00
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Music Played

  • Eric Rogers

    Carry On Camping (main titles)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • ASV.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    A solis ortu usque ad occasum (Laudate pueri, RV.601)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Director: Ottavio Dantone.
    • Naive.

  • Lewis Wright

    Raise (for Z)

    Performer: Lewis Wright. Performer: Matt Brewer. Performer: Marcus Gilmore.
    • The Colour of Intention.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 104.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Symphony no. 2 Op.16 'The Four temperaments' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • BIS.

  • Simon Wills

    Quem pastores laudavere

    Ensemble: Schwäbisch Metall.
    • Vom Himmel hoch, o Englein kommt.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 24.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata for 2 Pianos in D, K. 448 I. Allegro con spirito

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Sergei Babayan.
    • Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2016.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 107.

  • John Ireland

    A London Overture

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Ireland: Orchestral Music: Halle/John Wilson.
    • Halle.
    • 9.

  • Colin MacDonald

    Here Again

    Performer: Lara James. Performer: Jeremy Young.
    • Saxophone Music (Contemporary) - Rogers, R. / Muczynski, R. / Macdonald, C. / Gl.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 301.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La Traviata (Act 1 Prelude)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Viva Verdi.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Quintet in E flat major Op.16 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • Les Vents Français - Winds & Piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 117.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No 2 in E minor - 3rd mvt: Adagio

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • EMI.

  • Florence Price

    Tropical Noon (Dances in the Canebrakes)

    Performer: Althea Waites.
    • Black Diamonds.
    • Cambria.
    • 005.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Trio Sonata in C minor 'Sanguineus and Melancholicus'. 1st movement

    Ensemble: Purcell Quartet.
    • Helios.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Ehi! paggio... L'Onore! Ladri! (Falstaff)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex (Main Title; Darling; Finale)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • DG.

  • Philip Glass

    Wichita Vortex Sutra

    • Glass: Glassworlds, Vol. 6.
    • Grand Piano.
    • 301.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F major (4th mvt)

    Performer: Paul Goodwin. Performer: Timothy Brown. Performer: Susan Dent. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Catherine Mackintosh.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Rhapsody No 2 in G minor, Op 79

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Brahms Handel Variations - Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • James Walton

    Christmas Carol

    Music Arranger: Clare Wheeler. Choir: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Violin Concerto in A minor, Op.53 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Augustin Hadelich. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jakub Hrůša.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Leopold Koželuh

    Parthia in D major - Ist mvt: Poco adagio - Allegro

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • Kozeluch: Wind Divertimenti.
    • Orfeo.
    • 401.

  • Howard Skempton

    Well, well Cornelius

    Performer: John Tilbury.
    • Howard Skempton: Well, well, Cornelius: Tilbury.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • William Byrd

    Bow thine ear O Lord

    Music Arranger: Nico Muhly. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Decca.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in F major, H.15.6 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Haydn: Complete Piano Trios: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Philips.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah arr. Mozart - Part 2 (conclusion)

    Music Arranger: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Singer: Felicity Lott. Singer: Philip Langridge. Singer: Robert Lloyd. Choir: Huddersfield Choral Society. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Mozart: Handel - Messiah.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 217.

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  • Fri 11 Dec 2020 09:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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