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Wednesday with Suzy Klein - Mae West and Ho Chi Minh, David Nicholls

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for potential companion pieces for a well-known piece of music.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Cultural inspirations from leading figures in the arts world.

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Wed 17 Jan 201809:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Max Bruch

    String Octet (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Zsolt Fejérvári. Ensemble: Kodály Quartet. Ensemble: Auer String Quartet.
    • Mendelssohn/Bruch: String Quartets.
    • Naxos.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Rondo capriccioso, Op 14

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Nos. 1&2: Perahia.
    • CBS.
    • 9.

  • Percy Grainger

    Spoon River

    Orchestra: Kongelige norske marines musikkorps. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Grainger: Complete Music for Wind Band, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 12.

  • Josef Fiala

    Cor anglais concerto in E flat major

    Performer: Heinz Holliger. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
    • Philips Classics.

  • Henry Purcell

    Thy hand Belinda ... When I am laid in earth (from Dido and Aeneas)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • ERATO.

  • Paul Dukas

    Villanelle

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Performer: Alasdair Beatson.
    • A Noble And Melancholy Instrument Alec Frank-Gemmill & Alasdair Beatson.
    • BIS.
    • 010.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Masques et Bergamasques

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Ludovic Morlot.
    • Seattle Symphony.

  • Franz Schubert

    Arpeggione Sonata D.821 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Performer: Charles Owen.
    • Classics for Pleasure.

  • Time Traveller – Mae West and Ho Chi Minh

  • Francis Poulenc

    Hotel (Banalites)

    Singer: Régine Crespin. Performer: John Wustman.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor, BWV 1056

    Performer: Richard Egarr. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Rondeau, Op 97

    Performer: Nils‐Erik Sparf. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • DG.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Adieu, fiere cité (Les Troyens)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: John Nelson.

  • Henry Purcell

    Dido's Lament

    Music Arranger: David Rees-Williams. Ensemble: David Rees-Williams.
    • DePaean.

  • Philip Glass

    Akhnaten (The City)

    Orchestra: Staatsorchester Stuttgart. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
    • CBS.

  • David Nicholls on his love of the films of Francois Truffaut

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Sinfonietta (Op.48) in A major

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Onyx.

  • James Oswald

    Polwart on the green

    Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia. Director: David McGuinness.
    • James Oswald: Colin's Kisses: Concerto Caledonia.
    • Linn.
    • 17.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.45 in F sharp minor 'Farewell' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra. Conductor: 8 Bit.
    • Nimbus.

  • Michael Tippett

    Concerto for Double String Orchestra (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tippett.
    • Tippett Conducts Tippett.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 2.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Jeux d'eau

    Performer: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard.
    • The Lizst Project.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Béatrice et Bénédict (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Berlioz: OVertures: Staatskapelle Dresden/Davis.
    • RCA.
    • 5.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Impromptu in A flat major, Op.29

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Horizons.
    • EMI.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Wed 17 Jan 201809:00
    BBC Radio 3