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Monday with Suzy Klein - Soviet Synthesizers, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Bridget Kendall

Suzy Klein presents potential companion pieces for a popular piece of music, and journalist Bridget Kendall lists the cultural influences that inspired her.

Essential Classics with Suzy Klein

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

0930 Suzy explores potential companion pieces for Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Bridget Kendall, who as the 大象传媒's Moscow correspondent reported on the the break-up of the Soviet Union, talks about the ideas that have inspired and shaped her throughout her life. Part of Radio 3's "Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture".

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Mon 6 Nov 2017 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for strings (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Russian Virtuosi of Europe. Performer: Yuri Zhislin.
    • Orchid Classics : ORC100052.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 2.

  • Kurt Weill

    Lady in the Dark: Tchaikovsky and other Russians

    Singer: Danny Kaye. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Maurice Abravanel.
    • MEMOIR.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Moments musicaux in C major, Op.16 no.6

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio for Violin and Orchestra in E Major, K. 261

    Performer: Noa Wildschut. Conductor: Gordan Nikolitch. Orchestra: Nederlands Kamerorkest.
    • Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5, Violin Sonata No. 32 & Adagio.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 104.

  • Alessandro Marcello

    Oboe Concerto in D minor

    Performer: Paolo Grazzi. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • TELDEC.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    1812 Overture, Op 49

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Ensemble: Royal Dutch Marine Band. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.

  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Russian Rag

    Performer: Nicola Sweeney. Performer: Sarah Nicolls.
    • Signum.

  • Franz Liszt

    Les jeux d'eau 脿 la Villa d'Este (3me Ann茅es de p猫lerinage)

    Performer: Louis Lortie.
    • Liszt: Annees de Pelerinage: Lortie.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Ferenc Farkas

    5 Ancient Hungarian dances for wind quintet [complete]

    Ensemble: Galliard Ensemble.
    • Deux-Elles.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid (3 Old Viennese Dances)

    Performer: Clara Rockmore. Performer: Nadia Reisenberg.
    • Clara Rockmore's Lost Theremin Album.
    • Bridge.
    • 1.

  • Gustav Holst

    St Paul's suite Op.29`2 (Finale - The Dargason)

    Ensemble: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The Battle on the Ice (Alexander Nevsky)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • RCA.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Lieutenant Kije - Troika

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije / Alexander Nevsky: Abbado/Chicago SO.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 11.

  • Dag Wir茅n

    Serenade for Strings, Op. 11

    Orchestra: Stockholm Sinfonietta. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • A Swedish Serenade.
    • BIS.
    • 1-4.

  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Ch么ro no.1

    Performer: Carlos Bonell.
    • The Private Collection: Carlos Bonell.
    • Upbeat Classics.
    • 4.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in B flat major, Op.97 'Archduke' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • Beethoven: Piano Trio in B flat, Op.97 'Archduke': The Florestan Trio.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Hymn of the Cherubim (Liturgy of St John Chrysostom)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Horn Concerto, Op.58 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite.
    • British Horn Concertos: Jacob/Arnold/Bowen/Gipps/Vinter.
    • Lyrita.
    • 11.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in B flat major Op.3`2

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Handel: Concerti Grossi Op.3: English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
    • Apex.
    • 12.

  • John Field

    Piano Sonata No 4 in B major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: M铆膵e谩l O'Rourke.
    • John Field: Four Piano Sonatas: Miceal O'Rourke.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

Broadcast

  • Mon 6 Nov 2017 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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