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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Stravinsky's Fireworks, Walter and Vienna reunited, Alex Jennings

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 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the actor Alex Jennings.

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

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Tue 5 Nov 201909:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto for 3 trumpets, timpani, 2 oboes & bassoon in D (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • The Godfather: Masters of the German & Italian Baroque.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.

  • Dora Pejačević

    Cello sonata in E minor, Op.35 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Christian Poltéra. Performer: Oliver Triendl.
    • Pejacevic: Trio & Sonata.
    • CPO.
    • 6.

  • William Byrd

    Tristitia et anxietas

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • The Tallis Scholars Sing William Byrd.
    • Gimell.
    • 2.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Fireworks, Op 4

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • BMG.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction and Allegro

    Performer: Osian Ellis. Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.
    • Decca.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata in F sharp major, K 318

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • BIS.

  • Howard Ferguson

    Octet Op. 4 - last movement: Allegro feroce

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Introduction and rondo capriccioso for violin and orchestra, Op.28

    Performer: Deborah Nemtanu. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: Thomas Zehetmair.
    • Works by Faure and Saint-Saens.
    • MIRARE.
    • 001.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Der Abschied (Das Lied von der Erde)

    Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Bruno Walter.
    • NAXOS Historical.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    Sonate-fantaisie

    Performer: Stephen Coombs.
    • Alexander Scriabin: The Early Scriabin: Stephen Coombs.
    • Helios.
    • 11.

  • Franz Schubert

    Im Dorfe, D 911 No 17 (Winterreise)

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Singer: Mark Padmore.
    • Schubert Winterreise: Mark Padmore - Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 17.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Winter Bonfire (Departure)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: José Serebrier.
    • ASV.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537

    Orchestrator: Edward Elgar. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Cipriano de Rore

    Illuxit nunc sacra dies

    Ensemble: Brabant Ensemble. Conductor: Stephen Rice.
    • Hyperion.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Sextet in C minor Op.40 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • Les Vents Français - Winds & Piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 104.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)

    Orchestra: Concerto Köln. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro: Rene Jacobs.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Hymn to St Cecilia, Op.27

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • COLLINS CLASSICS.

  • Robert Johnson

    Satyr's Dance (Oberon)

    Performer: Ronald Romm. Performer: Frederic Mills. Performer: David Ohanian. Performer: Eugene Watts. Performer: Charles Daellenbach. Music Arranger: Mark Kroll. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • Canadian Brass: English Renaissance Music.
    • CBS.

  • Andrea Tarrodi

    Sorrow and Joy

    Performer: Jon Dahlkvist. Performer: Hannah Dahlkvist.
    • Andrea Tarrodi: String Quartets.
    • db Productions.
    • 1.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV.425

    Performer: Ugo Orlandi. Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti. Director: Claudio Scimone.
    • The Magic of the Mandoline - Greatest Concertos. Mandoline and string orchestra.
    • Erato.
    • 4.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in C sharp minor, Op 64 No 2

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 7.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Sarka (Má vlast)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • LSO LIVE.

Broadcast

  • Tue 5 Nov 201909:00
    BBC Radio 3