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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Shaw's Corner, Estévez's Midday on the Plain, Essential Tchaikovsky

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.

1110 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential piece of music by Tchaikovsky.

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

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Tue 21 Jan 202009:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op.66

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Chopin: Journal Intime: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Virgin Classics.

  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Sextet in C major Op.37 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.

  • Philip Glass

    Violin Concerto No.2 'American Four Seasons'; Song No.3 & Movement 4

    Performer: Piotr Plawner. Conductor: Philippe Bach. Orchestra: Bern Chamber Orchestra.
    • Naxos.

  • William Byrd

    Vigilate

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Signum.

  • Antonio Estévez

    Mediodia en el llano

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio K.418

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Orchestra: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • ERATO.

  • Andrea Falconieri

    Folias echa para mi Senora Dona Tarelilla de Carallenos

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Altre Follie 1500-1750: Hesperion XXI/Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 7.

  • Sally Beamish

    Seavaigers (Haven)

    Performer: Chris Stout. Performer: Catriona McKay. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • McKay Stout Music.

  • George Gershwin

    Strike up the Band (Overture)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Gershwin: An American in Paris: Shelley/BBC Phil./Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in A major Kk.208

    Performer: Pierre Hantaï.
    • MIRARE.

  • Ignace Joseph Pleyel

    Rondo for clarinet and basset horns, 'Presto assai'

    Ensemble: Swiss Clarinet Players.
    • CLAVES.

  • Richard Wagner

    Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D (Act III, conclusion)

    Singer: Gun-Brit Barkmin. Singer: Eric Halfvarson. Orchestra: Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jaap van Zweden.
    • Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D.
    • Naxos.
    • 414.

  • Robert Schumann

    Introduction and Allegro, Op.134

    Performer: Jan Lisiecki. Orchestra: Santa Cecilia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Béla Bartók

    Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Phillips.

  • Ferde Grofé

    Sunrise (Grand Canyon Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique Bátiz.
    • EMI.

  • Francisco Tárrega

    Recuerdos de la Alhambra

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • The Guitar: Milos Karadaglic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • George Butterworth

    2 English Idylls

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle: English Rhapsody.
    • Halle.
    • 2-3.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C major, Op.76`3 'Emperor' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Calidore String Quartet.
    • COLBURN.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake; Dance of the swans (Act 2 No.13)

    Orchestra: State Academic Symphony Orchestra of The Russian Federation. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)

    Performer: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard.
    • Ravel, The Piano Concertos: Aimard/Cleveland Orchestra/Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 8.

  • Andrzej Panufnik

    Lullaby

    Orchestra: Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Łukasz Borowicz.
    • CPO.

  • Franz Schubert

    Gondelfahrer, D.808

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Simon Keenlyside.
    • EMI.

  • William Lawes

    Consort Sett a 6 in F major "Sunrise" (Fantazy)

    Ensemble: Fretwork. Performer: Paul Nicholson.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont, Op 84 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Beethoven: Overtures: Sir Colin Davis.
    • CBS.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Tue 21 Jan 202009:00
    BBC Radio 3