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Monday with Suzy Klein - Slinky, Judith Kerr

Suzy Klein with the best in classical music. Plus author and illustrator Judith Kerr reveals her cultural 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 writer and illustrator Judith Kerr, of "The Tiger Who Came to Tea" fame, reveals the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped her life and career.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Georges Bizet

    Danse Boh猫me (Carmen Suite no.2)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • The Best of Bizet.
    • Philips.
    • 14.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt, Op 23)

    Singer: Marita Kvarving S酶lberg. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Grieg: The Complete Orchestral Music: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Ruud.
    • BIS.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude No. 3 in C sharp minor; After Bach: Rondo

    Composer: Brad Mehldau. Performer: Brad Mehldau.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony no.6 in D major, Op.60 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Decca.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Gloria in D major, RV.589

    Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Orchestra of The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • COLLINS CLASSICS.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and Fugue in E flat major Op.87`19

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Shostakovich The Preludes & Fugues Alexander Melnikov Piano.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 13.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Overture 'Leonore' no.3, Op.72b

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Trad.

    The last rose of summer

    Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Ashley Riches.
  • [traditional]

    NGA_The Crocodile_RFTX

    Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Ashley Riches.
  • Time Traveller: Slinky by Kate Romano

  • Victor Herbert

    March of the Toys (Babes in Toyland)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Bell.
    • A Family Christmas.
    • Signum.
    • 8.
  • Jennifer Higdon

    Chaconni (Violin Concerto)

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Hilary Hahn.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Gloria

    Singer: Susan Gritton. Choir: Polyphony. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Sch枚n Rosmarin

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Paul Coker.
    • The Romantic Violin: Joshua Bell.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Judith Kerr on her childhood in Berlin

  • Robert Schumann

    Am Camin, Op 15 No 8 (Kinderszenen)

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Keyboard Concerto in D major, H XVIII 2

    Performer: Alicia de Laroccha. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Decca Eloquence.
  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    Vadam et circuibo civitatem

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    3 Shanties Op.4 (no.3)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HELIOS.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Quartet for the End of Time: Praise to the immortality of Jesus

    Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.
    • DEUX-ELLES.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe d'amore Concerto in E minor, TWV.51:e2

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Orchestra: Berlin Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Rainer Kussmaul.
    • EMI.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    1812 Overture, Op 49

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

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