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Friday with Suzy Klein - Kate Mosse, Debussy and the saxophone lady, Khachaturian's Adagio from Spartacus

Suzy Klein presents potential companion pieces for a popular piece of music. Author and playwright Kate Mosse reveals her cultural influences and inspirations.

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Each day this week the bestselling author and playwright Kate Mosse reveals the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped her life and career.

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Fri 23 Mar 2018 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music and featured items

  • Charles Gounod

    Valse (Faust)

    Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Barcarole - Favourite Orchestral Pieces.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 14.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Holy Sonnets of John Donne (Since she whom I loved)

    Music Arranger: Matthew Barley. Performer: Matthew Barley.
    • Around Britten.
    • SIGNUM.
    • 019.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503: I. Allegro maestoso

    Performer: Piotr Anderszewski. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 25 & 27.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 101.

  • Richard Strauss

    Wiegenlied, Op 41 No 1

    Singer: Christine Sch盲fer. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart: Arias & R. Strauss: Orchestral Songs - Schafer, Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Aram Khachaturian.
    • Legends - Khachaturian: Spartacus: Wiener Philharmoniker.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in E flat major, D 899 No 2

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • Le Voyage Magnifique, Schubert: Impromptus; Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto in B flat major for harp and orchestra, Op 4 No 6

    Performer: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing. Orchestra: Taverner Players. Director: Andrew Parrott.
    • Pachelbel/Bach/Handel/Purcell: Taverner Players, Andrew Parrot.
    • EMI.
    • 2.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)

    Conductor: Aram Khachaturian. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Legends - Khachaturian: Spartacus: Wiener Philharmoniker.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Margaret Hubicki

    From the Isles of the Sea

    Performer: Daniel Pailthorpe. Performer: James Kirby.
    • Hubicki: Chamber Music.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.

  • Time Traveller: Debussy And The Saxophone Lady

    Duration: 02:12

  • Claude Debussy

    Saxophone Rhapsody

    Performer: Theodore Kerkezos. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Simonov.
    • Legende: Theodore Kerkezos.
    • Onyx.

  • Thomas Tomkins

    When David heard that Absalom was slain

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)

    Conductor: Aram Khachaturian. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Legends - Khachaturian: Spartacus: Wiener Philharmoniker.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Orfeo.

  • Inspirations: Kate Mosse on Debussy

    Duration: 02:43

  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 102 in B flat major

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    脡tudes-tableaux, Op 39 (No 8 in D minor)

    Performer: Freddy Kempf.
    • Freddy Kempf plays Rachmaninov.
    • Bis.
    • 11.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante d茅funte

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥� Philharmonie. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 6.

  • Anon.

    Sumer is icumen in

    Ensemble: The Dufay Collective.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fantasia in G Minor BWV 542

    Performer: David Goode.
    • Bach: Organ Works, Vol. 3.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.

  • Arnold Bax

    Elegiac Trio

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.

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  • Fri 23 Mar 2018 09:00
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