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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 pieces of music for winter.

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

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Thu 3 Dec 202009:00
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Music Played

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    March in B flat major, Op.99

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf: Sting/Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Björk

    Cosmogony

    Choir: The Hamrahlid Choir. Conductor: Þorgerður Ingólfsdóttir.
    • One Little Independent.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    La Cupis (Pieces de clavecin en concerts - concert no.5)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Debussy/Rameau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 20.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    La Rameau (Pieces de clavecin en concerts - concert no.4)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Debussy/Rameau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 21.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    La Rameau (Pieces de clavecin en concerts - concert no.4)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Debussy/Rameau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 22.

  • Colin McPhee

    Ostinatos (Tabuh-Tabuhan)

    Performer: Elizabeth Burley. Performer: John Alley. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Britten: Prince of the Pagodas/McPhee: Tabuh-Tabuhan.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (La rondine)

    Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Pritchard.
    • EMI.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major K.364 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos 1, 5 & Sinfonia concertante.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 107.

  • Padre Antonio Soler

    Keyboard Sonata no.90 in F sharp minor

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's Spanish Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Jacob van Eyck

    Pale Evenings

    Composer: Genevieve Lacey. Composer: Jan Bang. Performer: Genevieve Lacey.
    • Pleasure Gardens.
    • ABC Classics.
    • 14.

  • Josquin des Prez

    Missa Faysant regretz - Agnus Dei III

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • Gimell.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Serenade in D minor, Op.44 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Dvorak/Myslivecek: Blaserserenaden: Blaserensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

  • William Herschel

    Symphony no.2 in D major

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Morten Lauridsen

    O Magnum Mysterium

    Ensemble: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Advent Calendar.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.

  • Johan Svendsen

    Polonaise No 2, Op 28

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Svendsen: Pympphonies, Polonaise No.2: DNRSO, Dausgaard.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Troubled Water

    Performer: Althea Waites.
    • Black Diamonds.
    • Cambria.
    • 012.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Suite: The Prince of the Pagodas

    Music Arranger: Donald Mitchell. Music Arranger: Mervyn Cooke. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Chandos.

  • Marin Marais

    La Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont de Paris

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Rolf Lislevand. Performer: Pierre Hantaï.
    • Auvidis.

  • Leopold Godowsky

    The Gardens of Buitenzorg (Java Suite)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hough - 'My Favourite Things': Virtusos Encores and Transcriptions.
    • Nimbus.
    • 16.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat major Op.33`2 'Joke' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (1610), Sonata sopra 'Sancta Maria'

    Choir: London Oratory Junior Choir. Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Franz Schubert

    Gute Nacht, D 911 No 1 (Winterreise)

    Performer: Michael Gees. Singer: Christoph Prégardien.
    • CHALLENGE CLASSICS.

  • Franz Schubert

    The Hurdy Gurdy Man (Winterreise, D.911)

    Singer: Harry Plunket Greene. Performer: Unknown.
    • EMI.

  • Morton Gould

    American Symphonette no.2

    Performer: ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Fagen.
    • NAXOS.

  • Steve Martland

    Poor Roger

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Choir: The King’s Singers.
    • Street Songs.
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Boreades (Entree de Polymnie)

    Orchestra: Musica Aeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • SONY.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade No.1 in D, Op.11 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Brahms: Serenades Op. 11 & Op. 16.
    • Philips.
    • 1.

  • Henry Purcell

    The Fairy Queen - Overture

    Orchestra: The Symphony of Harmony and Invention. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629: The Sisteen, Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.

Broadcast

  • Thu 3 Dec 202009:00
    BBC Radio 3