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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 choose five great pieces of music composed for saxophone.

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

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Fri 28 May 202109:00
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Music Played

  • José Maurício Nunes Garcia

    Tarambote

    Ensemble: Ensemble Turicum. Director: Luiz Alves da Silva.
    • K617.

  • Alexander Borodin

    In the steppes of central Asia

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov - Sheherazade etc..
    • PHILIPS.
    • 5.

  • Maria Szymanowska

    Vivace in F major (Twenty Studies and Preludes for Piano, No 1)

    Performer: Magdalena Lisak.
    • CD ACCORD.

  • Ildebrando Pizzetti

    De Profundis

    Choir: East Carolina University Chamber Singers. Conductor: Daniel Bara.
    • GOTHIC.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E major 'Spring'

    Performer: Adrian Chandler. Ensemble: La Serenissima.
    • Avie.

  • Josef Myslivecek

    Ridente la calma, K. 152

    Music Arranger: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • Libertà!.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 108.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Idylle (10 Pièces pittoresques)

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • UNICORN-KANCHANA.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Nocturne (King Christian II)

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.
    • Sibelius.
    • Linn.
    • 006.

  • Ildebrando Pizzetti

    De Profundis

    Choir: East Carolina University Chamber Singers. Conductor: Daniel Bara.
    • GOTHIC.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite in F major, HWV 348, 'Water Music' (Bourrée)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Director: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Handel: Water & Fireworks Music: London Classical Players, Norrington.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 7.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    On the South Downs

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Choir: Truro Cathedral Choir. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
    • Regent Records.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wind Octet in E flat major, Op 103 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Gerard Reuter. Performer: Marc Schachman. Performer: Charles Neidich. Performer: Ayako Oshima. Performer: Dennis Godburn. Performer: Michael O'Donovan. Performer: William Purvis. Performer: Stewart Rose. Ensemble: Mozzafiato. Conductor: Charles Neidich.
    • Beethoven: Chamber music for wind instruments: Mozzafiato/Neidich.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • William Denis Browne

    To Gratiana dancing and singing

    Performer: Clifford Benson. Singer: Martyn Hill.
    • Hyperion.

  • Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli

    Sinfonia milanese No 7 in D major

    Orchestra: Atalanta Fugiens Orchestra. Conductor: Vanni Moretto.
    • Urania.

  • Ildebrando Pizzetti

    De Profundis

    Choir: East Carolina University Chamber Singers. Conductor: Daniel Bara.
    • GOTHIC.

  • Thomas Morley

    Out of the Deep

    Performer: Silas Wollston. Choir: Magdalena Consort. Singer: Samuel Boden. Director: Peter Harvey.
    • In Chains of Gold, The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem, Volume 2: William B.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1301.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Double Concerto in A minor Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Sony.

  • Gian Francesco Malipiero

    De Profundis

    Performer: Jon Thorne. Performer: William Nicholson. Performer: Daniel Burges. Singer: Matthew Wood.
    • Naxos.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Suite in A major, Op 98b, 'American' (first movement)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Dvorak:Symphony no. 7 Suite in A major,Budapest Festival Orchestra,Ivan Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 5.

  • Nicola Fago

    Alla gente a Dio diletta (Il Faraone Sommerso)

    Singer: Jakub Józef Orliński. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • Erato.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Norwegian Dance No 2 for piano duet, Op 35

    Ensemble: Duo Scaramouche. Ensemble: Malvina Renault-Vieville. Ensemble: Filippo Antonelli.
    • Duo Scaramouche - Grieg, Moszkowski, Brahms.
    • Scar.
    • 2.

  • Darius Milhaud

    Scaramouche - suite (Brazileira)

    Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lan Shui.
    • BIS.

  • Kassiani

    Isaiou nyn tou prophitou [Now Isaiah the Prophet]

    Choir: VocaMe. Director: Michael Popp.
    • CHRISTOPHORUS.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Trittico botticelliano (Three Botticelli Pictures)

    Orchestra: Argo Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: László Heltay.
    • Decca Eloquence.

  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romances Op.22 (no.1)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Hyperion.

  • Charles Avison

    Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op 9 No 8

    Performer: Pavlo Beznosiuk. Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.
    • The Avison Ensemble: Avison: Concerti Grossi, op. 9 & op. 10.
    • Divine Art.
    • 29.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Marietta's Lute Song (Die tote Stadt)

    Singer: Renée Fleming. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Renee Fleming - By Request.
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • Scott Joplin

    A Breeze from Alabama

    Performer: Dick Hyman.
    • Scott Joplin - Piano Works, 1899-1904.
    • RCA.
    • 010.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Fandango (The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No 1)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.
    • EMI Classics.

Broadcast

  • Fri 28 May 202109:00
    BBC Radio 3