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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 pieces of music inspired by great rivers.

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

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Music Played

  • Attilio Ariosti

    Vespasiano (Overture)

    Ensemble: La Nuova Musica.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Alun Hoddinott

    Welsh dances - suite no.1 Op.15 (no.2)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • Lyrita.

  • Robert Mackintosh

    Scottish Reels

    Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia.
    • Airs, Minuets, Gavotts and Reels.
    • Delphian.
    • 7.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Septet in E flat major Op.20 (3rd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Georg Druschetzky. Ensemble: Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Beethoven: Octet etc.: Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble.
    • EMI.
    • 8.

  • Federico Mompou

    Charmes: Nos 1, 3 and 6

    Performer: Julien Brocal.
    • Mompou & Ravel: Reflections.
    • RUBICON.
    • 109.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Quartet in D major K.285 (1st mvt.)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Christoph Poppen. Performer: Hariolf Schlichtig. Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras.
    • EMI CLASSICS.

  • Arnold Bax

    Maenads (Spring Fire)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bax: Spring Fire etc.: RPO / Handley.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Ballaké Sissoko

    Bamako - Chamber Music

    Performer: Ballaké Sissoko. Performer: Thibault Cauvin.
    • Cities 2.
    • Sony.
    • 1.

  • Hans Gál

    Variations on a Viennese 'Heurigen' melody Op.9

    Ensemble: Briggs Piano Trio.
    • Gal; Shostakovich: Piano Trios.
    • AVIE.
    • 4.

  • Bernhard Crusell

    Carinet Concerto no.2 in F minor Op.5 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Crusell: The Three Clarinet Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 006.

  • Julius Harrison

    Bredon Hill

    Performer: Matthew Trusler. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • DUTTON.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Les Troyens a Carthage (O blonde Ceres)

    Singer: Ian Partridge. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Philips.

  • Julius Röntgen

    Wind Serenade no.1 Op.14 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • Julius Rontgen - Wind Serenades.
    • CPO.
    • 8.

  • Steve Reich

    Mallet Quartet (Fast)

    Ensemble: Colin Currie Group.
    • Colin Currie & Steve Reich Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton.
    • Colin Currie Records.
    • 105.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Eduardo Mata.
    • Music of Manuel De Falla: Simon Bolivar Symophony Orchestra, Mata, Senn.
    • Dorian.
    • 1.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Hansel and Gretel (Stop! Hocus pocus, witch's ground)

    Performer: Jane Henschel. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Chandos.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Les Plaisirs De L'Ile Enchantee (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orfeo Orchestra. Conductor: György Vashegyi.
    • Un Opéra pour trois rois.
    • Glossa.
    • 1.

  • Miklós Rózsa

    Spellbound

    Orchestra: London Festival Orchestra. Choir: The London Festival Chorus and Orchestra. Conductor: Stanley Black.
    • DECCA.

  • Rodrigo Amarante

    Tuyo ("Narcos" Theme)

    Performer: Aleksander Debicz. Performer: Lukasz Kuropaczewski.
    • Warner.

  • Isaac Albéniz

    The Magic Opal - suite (Overture)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Philip van Wilder

    Pater noster

    Ensemble: Gallicantus. Conductor: Gabriel Crouch.
    • Queen Mary's Big Belly.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.

  • Claude Debussy

    Fetes (Nocturnes)

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

  • Richard Wagner

    Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Götterdämmerung)

    Orchestrator: Engelbert Humperdinck. Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Wagner: Orchestral Music from Der Ring des Nibelungen.
    • Naxos.
    • 501.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento (Cosi fan tutte)

    Singer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Singer: Christa Ludwig. Singer: Walter Berry. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Bohm.
    • EMI.

  • Philip Glass

    The Orchard (The Screens)

    Composer: Foday Musa Suso. Performer: Benjamin Hudson. Performer: Michael Parloff. Performer: Allen Blustine. Performer: Rex Benincasa. Performer: Jerry Grossman.
    • Decca.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in C major H.15.27 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Joseph Haydn - Piano Trios.
    • Philips.
    • 6.

  • Henry Purcell

    Sonata - 1683 no.10 in A major Z.799

    Performer: Pavlo Beznosiuk. Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Christophe Coin. Performer: Christopher Hogwood.
    • l'Oiseau Lyre.

  • Sir George Dyson

    Overture - At the Tabard Inn (The Canterbury Pilgrims)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.

Broadcast

  • Mon 26 Apr 202109:00
    BBC Radio 3