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Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Suzy Klein plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to today’s starter.

1100 Essential Five – another outstanding piece by Claudio Monteverdi.

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

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Tue 29 Jun 202109:00
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Music Played

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    24 Preludes in jazz style Op.53 (no.17)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Juliette Hurel. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • WARNER.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Piano Quintet in G minor Op.1 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Stewart Goodyear. Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Azica.

  • Alan Ridout

    Ariel (Caliban and Ariel)

    Performer: Laurence Perkins.
    • HYPERION.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture Op.80

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • CHANNEL.

  • Giovanni Battista Fontana

    Sonata no.2 [Sonate a 1, 2, 3..., 1641]

    Performer: Julia Fritz. Performer: Johannes Hämmerle.
    • AUDITE.

  • Belle Chen

    Departure

    Performer: Belle Chen.
    • Departure.
    • Eito Music.
    • 12.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet no.23 in F Major K.590 'Prussian' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Mozart: String Quartets, Vol. 1 – The Prussian Quartets.
    • Chandos.

  • William Byrd

    Sing joyfully unto God

    Choir: Odyssean Ensemble. Conductor: Colm Carey.
    • Linn Records.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor Op.16 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Grieg/Liszt: Piano Concertos: Stephen Hough, BPO, Litton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.

  • Pauline Viardot

    Nixe Binsefuß (3 Songs on texts by Eduard Morike)

    Performer: Igor Gryshyn. Singer: Olena Tokar.
    • Charmes.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 701.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio sonata in G minor HWV.393

    Ensemble: Brook Street Band.
    • Handel Trio Sonatas.
    • AVIE.
    • 11-14.

  • Hans Rott

    String Symphony in A flat major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gürzenich-Orchester Köln. Conductor: Christopher Ward.
    • CapriccioNR.

  • Michel Corrette

    Le Phenix Concerto

    Performer: Kim Walker. Performer: Roger Birnstingl. Performer: Carlo Colombo. Performer: Cléna Stein. Performer: Darryl Nixon.
    • Sonates Baroques.
    • GALLO.
    • 5.

  • Guy Woolfenden

    Come unto these yellow sands (The Tempest)

    Singer: Ian Charleson. Ensemble: Royal Shakespeare Wind Ensemble. Director: Guy Woolfenden.
    • DLC.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Six Metamorphoses after Ovid (Niobe)

    Performer: George Caird.
    • OBOE CLASSICS.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Dance of Nymphs and Reapers (Suite from The Tempest)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Scherzo Humoristique Op.12

    Performer: Laurence Perkins. Performer: Amy Thompson. Performer: Matthew Kitteringham. Performer: Catriona McDermid.
    • Voyage of a sea-god.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Ennio Morricone

    Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

    Performer: Marco Fumo.

  • Andrea Morricone

    Love Theme (Cinema Paradiso)

    Performer: Marco Fumo.
    • ODRADEK.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Symphony no.19 G.521 (Op.43`6) in D major [Overture]

    Director: Jeanne Lamon. Orchestra: Tafelmusik.
    • Boccherini: Cello Concertos: Bylsma, Tafelmusik, Lamon.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Possente spirto e formidabil nume (L'Orfeo)

    Singer: Laurence Dale. Singer: Paul Gerimon. Ensemble: Concerto Vocale. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • Monteverdi: L'Orfeo.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 204.

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque no.1 in E major

    Music Arranger: Henriette Renié. Performer: Susan Drake.
    • Helios.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Op.84 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'/Prometheus/Egmont.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major Op.57

    Performer: Alexei Lubimov.
    • NIFC.

  • Francesco Venturini

    Concerto da camera in A minor Op.1`2

    Ensemble: la festa musicale.
    • Audite.

  • Jean Lhéritier

    Surrexit pastor bonus

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E Minor Op.64 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto - Symphony No. 5 & The Hebrides.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Tue 29 Jun 202109:00
    BBC Radio 3