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Monday - Suzy Klein with Dame Diana Rigg, Villa-Lobos and Marmalade

Suzy Klein brings the best in classical music, and chats to Dame Diana Rigg about the things that have inspired her over the years.

Essential Classics with Suzy Klein

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

0930 We explore companion pieces for one of Villa-Lobos' most famous works, his "Bachianas Brasileiras no 5" -which famously fuses inspiration from Bach with Brazilian folk music.

1010 Time Traveller - a quirky slice of cultural history

1050 Throughout the week we'll hear from Dame Diana Rigg, most recently on our screens in "Game of Thrones" and "Victoria", talking about the cultural icons that have inspired her over the years.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    L'脡toile (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Neeme Jarvi conducts Chabrier.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in C sharp minor (3 Waltzes Op.64)

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter.
    • Chopin: Piano Sonata No.3 etc: Ingrid Fliter.
    • EMI.
    • 11.
  • Josef Strauss

    Music of the Spheres, Op 235

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • SONY.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The heavens are telling (The Creation)

    Singer: Sarah Tynan. Singer: Jeremy Ovenden. Singer: Matthew Brook. Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Trad.

    Greensleeves

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • BIS.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Aria (Bachiana brasileira No 5)

    Singer: Juliane Banse. Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • South American Getaway: 12 Cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker/Banse.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Trio for piano and strings(WoO.38)in E flat major,

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • Beethoven: The Complete Music for Piano Trio, Vol. 3: Florestan Trio.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Lilian Elkington

    Out of the Mist

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Elgar - The Spirit of England etc..
    • Dutton Laboratories.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    La finta giardiniera (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • RCA.
  • Antonio Valente

    Gagliarda napoletana for keyboard [Intavolatura de cimbalo...libro 1o,1576]

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Heute noch, heute noch (Cantata no.211 "Kaffee-Kantata")

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas: Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
    • 18.
  • Arnold Bax

    Winter Legends (3rd & 4th mvts)

    Performer: Ashley Wass. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Bax: Winter Legends: Ashley Wass, Bournemouth SO, James Judd.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.
  • Joseph Canteloube

    Ba茂l猫ro (Chants d'Auvergne, Set 1)

    Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne: Kiri Te Kanawa.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: Markus Becker.
    • Hyperion.
  • Jan Anton铆n Ko啪eluh

    Oboe Concerto in F major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • Lost and Found.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.
  • Stephen Sondheim

    Could I leave you? (Follies)

    Performer: Diana Rigg. Orchestra: Follies Orchestra.
    • FIRST NIGHT.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite from Rinaldo: IV. Sinfonia

    Music Arranger: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura.
    • Music for Brass Septet - 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 28.
  • Robert Schumann

    Adagio and Allegro in A flat major Op.70

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Performer: Alasdair Beatson.
    • BIS : BIS-2228 SACD.
    • BIS.
    • 4-5.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Masques et Bergamasques

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

    Cum dederit dilectis (Nisi Dominus, RV 608)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Ensemble: Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Dyer.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Piano Quintet in A minor Op.30 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: The Schubert Ensemble.
    • ASV.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concertino in E flat major, Op.26

    Performer: Kari Kriikku. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Ondine.

Broadcast

  • Mon 25 Sep 2017 09:00

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