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Wednesday with Suzy Klein - Sue MacGregor, Mac an t-Sronaich, Maple Leaf Rag

Suzy Klein with the best in classical music, and we hear Sue MacGregor's cultural inspirations.

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 Writer and broadcaster Sue MacGregor on the things that have inspired and influenced her throughout her life and career.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Francesco Cavalli

    Che citt脿 (L'Ormindo)

    Singer: N煤ria Rial. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Erato.
  • Aaron Copland

    Buckaroo Holiday (Rodeo, No. 1)

    Orchestra: Colorado Symphony. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Bis.
  • Robert Schumann

    Widmung

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Beatrice Rana.
  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Dances of Marossz茅k

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Kod谩ly: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 21.
  • Scott Joplin

    Maple Leaf Rag

    Performer: Philip Dyson.
    • Scott Joplin - the King of Ragtime: Complete.
    • Decca.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in B flat major, Op.76`4 'Sunrise' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Schumann Quartett.
    • Berlin Classics.
  • John Taverner

    Gloria (Missa Corona spinea)

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • GIMMELL RECORDS.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Larghetto

    Performer: Ronald Janezic. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Chabrier: Espana: Wiener Philharmoniker, John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in A flat major, Op 10 No 10

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Chopin: Etudes Op.10 & Op.25: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Vergnugte Ruh', beliebte Seelenlust (Cantata BWV.170)

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Bach Cantatas 54, 82, 170.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Time Traveller - Mac an t'Sronaich by Peter MacKay

  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Baba-Yaga, Op.56

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 331

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Performer: Andrea Marcon. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • Vivaldi: Concertos - Carmignola/Venice Baroque Orchestra/Marcon.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 1.
  • William Bolcom

    The Graceful Ghost (Three Ghost Rags)

    Performer: Donna Coleman.
  • George Botsford

    Black and White Rag

    Performer: Winifred Atwell.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    A London Symphony (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Vaughan Williams: London Symphony/Oboe Concerto: Halle/Elder.
    • Halle.
    • 3.
  • William Byrd

    Haec dies (Cantiones sacrae, 1591)

    Choir: Hereford Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Geraint Bowen.
    • GRIFFIN.
  • Sue MacGregor on her love of contemporary dance

  • George Frideric Handel

    As steals the morn (L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)

    Singer: Gillian Webster. Singer: Jeremy Ovenden. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Signum.
  • Nino Rota

    Concerto Soiree for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Barry Douglas. Orchestra: Filarmonica 900 Teatro Regio Torino. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Chandos.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Bagatelles Op.47 (no.4)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Dvorak: String Quartets: Takacs Quartet.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni (Overture)

    Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • SONY : 88985316032.
    • Sony.
    • 1.
  • Jennifer Higdon

    All Things Majestic: String Lake

    Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero.
    • Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto (Live).
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Biguine (Le bal martiniquais)

    Performer: Stephen Coombs. Performer: Artur Pizarro.
    • Darius Milhaud - Music for Two Pianos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) - overture Op.26

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto - Symphony No. 5 & The Hebrides.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture in D major, TWV 55 D6 (Sarabande)

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Director: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations.
    • Le Concert Spirituel: Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 9.

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  • Wed 10 Jan 2018 09:00

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