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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 Song of the Day

1100 Essential Five - this week we bring you five great performances by conductor Bernard Haitink.

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

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Tue 20 Apr 202109:00
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Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (Lyric Pieces - book 8 Op.65)

    Orchestrator: Franz Josef Breuer. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt, Sigur Jorsalfar.
    • NAXOS.
    • 11.

  • Erroll Garner

    Erroll's Blues

    Performer: Joanna MacGregor.

  • Anon.

    Galliard and Allemande

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.

  • George Butterworth

    Loveliest of Trees (A Shropshire Lad)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • George Butterworth, Songs from A Shropshire Lad: Williams / Burnside.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Serenade in E major Op.22 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON : 415-364-2.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.12 in A major K.414 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Ronald Brautigam. Orchestra: Die Kölner Akademie. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.
    • Mozart: Complete Piano Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 501.

  • Vassilena Serafimova

    Miroirs

    Performer: Vassilena Serafimova. Performer: Thomas Enhco.
    • Masterworks.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.5 in E minor Op.64 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • BR KLASSIK.

  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Trio Sonata no.5 in F major (Allegro)

    Ensemble: Collegium 1704. Performer: Václav Luks.
    • Accent.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Béatrice et Bénédict (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Berlioz: Overtures.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Enrique Granados

    El fandango de candil (Goyescas)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Granados: Goyescas: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • John Adams

    Batter My Heart (Doctor Atomic)

    Singer: Gerald Finley. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Adams.
    • NONESUCH.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance in E minor Hess13

    Performer: Patrick Gallois. Performer: Pascal Gallois. Performer: Myung-Whun Chung. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Beethoven: Triple Concerto/Violin Romances: Chung Trio/Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Sento la gioia (Amadigi di Gaula)

    Music Arranger: Trevor Pinnock. Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • EMI.

  • Trad.

    Sakura [Cherry Blossoms]

    Music Arranger: Toru Takemitsu. Choir: Shinyukai Choir. Conductor: Shin Sekiya.
    • Takemitsu: Choral Works.
    • Philips.
    • 1.

  • Oscar Rasbach

    Trees

    Singer: Benjamin Luxon. Performer: David Willison.
    • Decca.

  • Jean Françaix

    L'horloge de Flore (21 Heures. Silene noctiflore)

    Performer: Lajos Lencsés. Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Uri Segal.
    • Françaix: L'horloge de Flore, Cor anglais Quartet, Oboe Trio & String Quartet.
    • CPO.
    • 107.

  • Richard Strauss

    Daphne Op.82 (Transformation Scene)

    Singer: Renée Fleming. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • DECCA.

  • Santiago de Murcia

    Tarantella no 2

    Performer: Rolf Lislevand. Ensemble: Ensemble Kapsberger.
    • Naive.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Piano Trio no. 1 in F major Op.18 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Helios Trio.
    • Un matin de printemps.
    • Mirare.
    • 1.

  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    Heptapod B (Arrival)

    Music Arranger: Max Knoth. Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Orchestra: Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Conductor: Jonathan Stockhammer.
    • DG.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Oboe Concerto in A minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Stephane Rancourt. Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Vaughan Williams: London Symphony/Oboe Concerto: Halle/Elder.
    • Halle.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony no.4 in E flat major 'Romantic' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Decca.

  • Jo Knümann

    Rumänisch

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Avi Avital. Performer: Jacques Ammon. Ensemble: German Chamber Orchestra, Berlin.
    • My Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin.
    • DG.
    • 16.

  • Anders Koppel

    Still LIfe

    Performer: Anders Koppel. Performer: Henrik Dam Thomsen.
    • DaCapo.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Mazurka In A Minor [for Emile Gaillard]

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Chopin: Mazurkas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 019.

  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Trio in D minor, Op.3 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Meyer. Performer: Zvi Plesser. Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • Alpha.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Two-Part Invention in E major, BWV.777

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Maxim Rysanov.
    • Bach: Inventions & Partita: Janine Jansen.
    • Decca.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Khachaturian: Spartacus Suites: SNO, Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Tue 20 Apr 202109:00
    BBC Radio 3