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Thursday with Suzy Klein - Kwame Kwei-Armah, Bizet's Habenara, Nails

Suzy Klein presents potential companion pieces for Bach's violin concerto in E. Featured guest Kwame Kwei-Armah reveals the cultural influences that have shaped him.

Essential Classics with Suzy Klein

Suzy takes us through the morning with the best in classical music including:

0930 Suzy explores potential companion pieces for the E major violin concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach, a compact masterpiece and potential earworm

1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history

1050 Actor, director and playwright, the multi-talented Kwame Kwei-Armah reveals the cultural influences that have shaped him. Today - a time and place.

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Thu 19 Oct 201709:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Alexander Borodin

    Petite Suite (Nocturne)

    Orchestrator: Alexander Glazunov. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Cala.

  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto Grosso No 6 in A major after Corelli

    Ensemble: Ensemble 415. Conductor: Chiara Banchini.
    • Geminiani: Concerti Grossi - Composes: Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini.
    • Zig Zag Territories.
    • 23-26.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in E flat major H.16.52 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Rafał Blechacz.
    • Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart: Sonatas: Rafal Blechacz.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Peteris Vasks

    String Quartet No.4: Choral (3rd movement)

    Ensemble: Borusan Quartet.
    • ONYX.

  • Georges Bizet

    L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Carmen)

    Singer: Magdalena Kožená. Choir: Berlin Opera Chorus. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Bizet: Carmen: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 7.

  • François Couperin

    Le Gaillard-Boiteux (Pièces de clavecin, Ordre No 18)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Couperin: Keyboard Music 1: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Sogno soave e casto (Don Pasquale, Act 1 Scene 1)

    Singer: Rolando Villazón. Singer: Ildar Abdrazakov. Orchestra: Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • DG.

  • Richard Strauss

    Serenade for 13 wind instruments in E flat, Op 7

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Director: Alexei Ogrintchouk.
    • BIS.

  • Domenico Gabrielli

    Canon for 2 cellos

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Performer: Jonathan Cohen.

  • Charles Gounod

    Ainsi que la brise legere - waltz (Faust)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.
    • TESTAMENT.

  • Percy Grainger

    The Wrath of Odin for two pianos

    Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Performer: John Lavender.
    • Grainger: Piano Music for Four Hands Vol.1: Thwaites/Lavender.
    • Pavillion.
    • 13.

  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Concerto in 7 parts no.6 in E major

    Ensemble: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • A & D Scarlatti: Concerti & Sinfonie.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 27-30.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Piano Trio No 4, Op 90 'Dumky' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov. Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras.
    • Dvorak: Cello Concerto, Dumky Trio: Jean-Guihen Queyras, Prague Philharmonia, Be.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.

  • Claude Debussy

    La soirée dans Grenade orch Busser

    Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Jun Märkl.
    • Debussy.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5; Markl.
    • Naxos.
    • 15.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Beatus Vir

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • DECCA.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    The Ruins of Athens Op.113 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Beethoven: Overturen - Weiner Philharmoniker/Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 3.

  • Robert Schumann

    Toccata in C major Op.7

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • PIANO CLASSICS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Ach, ich fuhl's)

    Singer: Natalie Dessay. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Louis Langrée.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.

  • Henry Purcell

    Fantazia no.10 in E minor Z.741

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ASTREE.

  • Osvaldo Golijov

    Ayre (No 7, 'Aiini taqtiru')

    Performer: Gustavo Santaolalla. Performer: Jamie Haddad. Choir: The Andalucian Dogs. Singer: Dawn Upshaw.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

  • Henryk Wieniawski

    Légende, Op 17

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: James Levine.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Franz Schubert

    6 Moments musicaux, Op. 94, D. 780: No. 1 in C Major: Moderato

    Performer: Lars Vogt.
    • Schubert: Piano Works.
    • Ondine.
    • 11.

  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    The Enchanted lake Op.62

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thierry Fischer.
    • Petrushka.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
    • 6.

  • Suor Leonora d'Este

    Angeli, archangeli, troni

    Ensemble: Musica Secreta. Choir: Celestial Sirens. Director: Laurie Stras. Director: Deborah Roberts.
    • OBSIDIAN.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Capriccio brillante in B minor, Op 22

    Performer: Cyprien Katsaris. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • Mendelssohn: Orchestral Works: Gewandhausorchester, Kurt Masur.
    • Warner Classics.

Broadcast

  • Thu 19 Oct 201709:00
    BBC Radio 3