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Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein.

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music-making of the British Isles.

1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the conductor Semyon Bychkov

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

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Music Played

  • Antonio Salieri

    Falstaff (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Salieri: Symphonies, Ovtures and Variations.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Matinée de Provence

    Singer: Brigitte Desnoues. Choir: Choeur de Paris-Sorbonne. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris-Sorbonne. Conductor: Jacques Grimbert.
    • Prix de Rome Cantatas.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 10.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata in F Major, K. 6

    Performer: Pierre Hantaï.
    • Scarlatti, Vol. 6.
    • Mirare.
    • 11.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Parthia in B flat major for wind ensemble

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • TELDEC.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Carousel Waltz (Carousel)

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • American Light Music Classics.
    • Hyperion.
    • 22.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • Handel Goes Wild.
    • WARNER.
    • 7.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and Fugue in F major, Op 87 No 23

    Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva.
    • Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87: Tatiana Nicolayeva.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.

  • Frank Bridge

    Cherry ripe

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.

  • Morten Lauridsen

    O nata lux (Lux aeterna)

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca.
    • 11.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G minor, RV.154

    Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Vivaldi - Concerti per archi.
    • Naive.
    • 14-16.

  • Hugo Alfvén

    Uppsala Rhapsody, Op. 24

    Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Łukasz Borowicz.
    • Alfvén: Symphony No. 3 in E Major, Uppsala Rhapsody & The Mountain King Suite.
    • CPO.
    • 9.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Barcarolle, Op.60

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in B major Op.72 no.9

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Nobel Prize Ceremony Music.
    • FINLANDIA.
    • 6.

  • George Frideric Handel

    The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba [In Galway]

    Music Arranger: De Dannan. Ensemble: De Dannan.
    • How the West Was Won.
    • Hummingbird Records.
    • 1.

  • Henry Purcell

    Dido's Lament

    Music Arranger: David Rees-Williams. Ensemble: David Rees-Williams.
    • DePaean.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Anitra's Dance (Peer Gynt Suite No 1)

    Music Arranger: Duke Ellington. Orchestra: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
    • Peer Gynt Suite/Suite Thursday.
    • Columbia.
    • 5.

  • Franz Biebl

    Ave Maria

    Choir: The Gentlemen of St John’s. Director: Christopher Robinson.
    • Music for Men's Voices.
    • Priory.
    • 5.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude Op 23 no 10

    Performer: Vitalij Margulis.
    • Christophorus.

  • Franz Schubert

    Die Zauberharfe D.644 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Frozen River Flows

    Performer: Roman Mints. Performer: Raimondas Sviackevičius. Performer: Donatas Bagurskas.
    • Dobrinka Tabakova - String Paths.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 005.

  • Arnold Bax

    Summer Music

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd‐Jones.
    • Best of British.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Leo Brouwer

    Berceuse

    Performer: John Williams.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Karol Szymanowski

    Etude Op 4 no 3

    Performer: Andrzej Stefanski.
    • Adda.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in E flat major Wq.183`2

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Gustav Leonhardt.
    • CPE Bach: Symphonies, Cello Concertos, etc: Bylsma/OAE/Leonhardt.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 4.

  • Henry Purcell

    Fantazia No 10 in E minor, Z 741

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Symphony No 3 in C minor (Finale)

    Performer: Olivier Latry. Orchestra: Liege Philharmonic. Conductor: Pascal Rophé.
    • CYPRES.

Broadcast

  • Wed 28 Aug 201909:00
    BBC Radio 3