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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Christine Rice, Sarnia Cherie, Martinů's Revue de Cuisine

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein.

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Musical Time Travellers – stories behind the music making of the British Isles.

1050 Suzy’s guest is a graduate of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, celebrating its 20th anniversary.

1110 Essential Five – this week we suggest five essential nocturnes.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Hector Berlioz

    Le carnaval romain

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Berlioz: Requiem etc: Domingo/Choeur et Orchestre de Paris/Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Madrigale (Five Pieces for violin and piano)

    Performer: Tanja Becker-Bender. Performer: Peter Nagy.
    • Respighi: vilin Sonatas, Five Pieces: Tanja Becker-Bender, Peter Nagy.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt.2,no.39: Erbarme dich, mein Gott, um meiner

    Singer: Clint van der Linde. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244.
    • BIS.
    • 4.
  • Alice Mary Smith

    Symphony in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Chandos.
  • Bohuslav Martinů

    Charleston (Kitchen review - suire)

    Orchestra: Holst-Sinfonietta. Conductor: Klaus Simon.
    • Martinu: Revue de cuisine etc: Holst Sinfonietta/Simon.
    • Naxos.
    • 18.
  • Robert Schumann

    Konzertstück in F major, Op 86 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Nigel Black. Performer: Laurence Davies. Performer: Laurence Rogers. Performer: Peter Blake. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • Schumann Symphony no.2 / 'Manfred' Overture etc..
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 002.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Scherzo No 4 in E major, Op 54

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    This is the record of John

    Music Arranger: Nico Muhly. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Nico Muhly: Seeing is Believing.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto in F major for three pianos, K 242 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque. Performer: Semyon Bychkov. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Mozart: Concertos for 2 and 3 pianos: Katia & Marielle Labeque/Semyon Bychkov.
    • Philips.
  • Domenico Santangelo

    Sarnia Cherie

    Performer: Guernsey Concert Band. Performer: Andrew Warren. Performer: John Bourgaize. Performer: Jeffrey Howard. Performer: Jackie Bromley. Performer: Christine Anthony. Conductor: Simon Applegate. Choir: Island Churches Guernsey Festival Chorus. Singer: José Paine. Choir: St Andrew's Primary School Chorus, Guernsey.
    • Sarnia Cherie.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata and Fugue, BWV.565

    Orchestrator: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • 20th Century Bach: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Henri Duparc

    L'Invitation au voyage

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Singer: Christine Rice.
    • EMI.
  • William Walton

    Popular Song (Façade)

    Singer: Edith Sitwell. Conductor: Frederick Prausnitz. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sir William Walton: Facade/Belshazzar's Feast.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    March Past of the Kitchen Utensils (The Wasps)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • William Bolcom

    3 Rags: no.3 Incineratorag

    Ensemble: Aeolus Quartet.
    • Longhorn Music.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Zigeunerweisen, Op.20

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.
  • William Walton

    Agincourt song (Henry V)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: William Walton.
    • EMI.
  • John Adams

    Harmonielehre: 3rd mvt Meister Eckhardt and Quackie

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Oundjian.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Nocturne in E-Flat Minor, Op. 33 No. 1

    Performer: Nicolas Stavy.
    • Fauré: Piano Works.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Trio sonata no. 3 in D major

    Ensemble: The Bach Players.
    • Coviello.
  • Vincent Youmans

    Tahiti Trot

    Music Arranger: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Robert Lucas Pearsall

    Lay a garland

    Performer: The Sixteen. Performer: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Trumpet Overture, Op 101

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Sonata for piano(H.16.46) in A Flat major, 3rd mvt; Presto

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • Haydn: Piano Sonatas: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Scherzo fantastique, Op 3

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Rimsky: Royal Concertgebouw, Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 5.

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