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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 Musicians recommend their favourite recordings.

1100 Essential Five – this week we bring you five pieces of music that look forward to spring.

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

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Tue 2 Mar 202109:00
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Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    La Foire (Etudes-tableaux No 2, after Rachmaninov's Op 33 No 4)

    Orchestrator: Ottorino Respighi. Orchestra: Dortmunder Philharmoniker. Conductor: Gabriel Feltz.
    • Dreyer Gaido.

  • Franz Schubert

    Quintet in A Major D.667 'Trout' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Performer: Hwayoon Lee. Performer: Maximilian Hornung. Performer: Roman Patkoló.
    • Schubert: Trout Quintet.
    • DG.
    • 4.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Tanti anni prima (Ave Maria)

    Orchestrator: Jérôme Ducros. Performer: Lucienne Renaudin Vary. Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sascha Goetzel.
    • WARNER.

  • Johann Hermann Schein

    Concordia zu jeder Zeit

    Singer: Julla Von Landsberg. Singer: Christine Maria Rembeck. Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble.
    • Pan Classics.

  • Johann Hermann Schein

    Der edle Schäfer Coridon (from Musica boscareccia)

    Singer: Julla Von Landsberg. Singer: Christine-Maria Rembeck. Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble. Director: Thor-Harald Johnsen.
    • Pan Classics.

  • Johann Hermann Schein

    Juch holla, freut euch mit mir

    Singer: Julla Von Landsberg. Singer: Christine-Maria Rembeck. Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble. Director: Thor-Harald Johnsen.
    • Pan Classics.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no.3 in G minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.
    • Louise Farrenc: Symphonies 1 and 3.
    • CPO.
    • 7.

  • Claude Debussy

    Petite Suite

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.

  • Hubert Parry

    My soul, there is a country (Songs of Farewell, No 1)

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • The Music of King's: Choral Favourites from Cambridge.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 8.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Concertino in E flat major Op.26

    Performer: Jörg Widmann. Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra.
    • ALPHA.

  • Robert Simpson

    String Quartet No. 8 - II. Molto vivace 'Eretmapodites gilletti'

    Ensemble: The Delmé String Quartet.
    • HYPERION.

  • Sir Hamilton Harty

    A Comedy Overture

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • John Field

    Nocturne No 3 in A flat major

    Performer: Elizabeth Joy Roe.
    • DECCA.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Zefiro Torna

    Singer: Anna Prohaska. Singer: Magdalena Kožená. Orchestra: La Cetra Barockorchester Basel. Director: Andrea Marcon.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Robert Schumann

    Eintritt (Waldszenen, Op 82)

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.
    • Schumann - Kinderszenen & Waldszenen; Janacek - On the overgrown path I..
    • HYPERION.
    • 11.

  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Sonata in A major (La Pastorella) for violin and continuo [MS A-Wm]

    Performer: Andrew Manze. Performer: Nigel North. Performer: John Toll.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Woody Herman

    At the Woodchopper's Ball

    Composer: Joe Bishop. Orchestra: Woody Herman Orchestra.
    • Sunflower Records.

  • John Adams

    Violin Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Tamsin Waley-Cohen. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Harris & Adams: Violin Concertos.
    • Signum Classics.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata for flute and continuo in E Minor, BWV1034 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Frank Theuns. Performer: Bertrand Cuiller.
    • Ramée.

  • Franz Schubert

    Frühlingsglaube D686

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Ilker Arcayürek.
    • Franz Schubert: Der Einsame.
    • CHAMPS HILL RECORDS.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.4 in B flat major Op.60 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: DR UnderholdningsOrkestret. Conductor: Ádám Fischer.
    • Beethoven: Complete Symphonies.
    • Naxos.
    • 201.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C major Kk.159 'The Hunt'

    Music Arranger: Béla Fleck. Music Arranger: Chris Thile. Performer: Béla Fleck. Performer: Chris Thile.
    • Sony.

  • Jessie Montgomery

    Strum

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Azica Records.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Horn Concerto, Op.58 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite.
    • British Horn Concertos: Jacob/Arnold/Bowen/Gipps/Vinter.
    • Lyrita.
    • 11.

  • Anon.

    Quis Dabit

    Performer: Harmen Fraanje. Performer: Mikko Perkola. Singer: Aino Peltomaa.
    • Fuga Libera.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture Op.80

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Linden Lea

    Music Arranger: Arthur Somervell. Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Director: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Early One Morning: Choir of New College, Oxford/Higginbottom.
    • Erato.

  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Organ Symphony No 8 in B major, Op 42 No 4 (6th mvt, Finale)

    Performer: Jean-Baptiste Dupont.
    • Audite.

Broadcast

  • Tue 2 Mar 202109:00
    BBC Radio 3