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Tuesday with Suzy Klein - Judith Kerr, Brahms Academic Overture, Physics on the Beach

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 and featured items

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Donnerode, TWV 6:3, Pt. 1: I. Wie ist dein Name so gross

    Choir: Rheinische Kantorei. Singer: Wilfried Jochens. Singer: Hans-Georg Wimmer. Orchestra: Das Kleine Konzert. Conductor: Hermann Max. Singer: Barbara Schlick.
    • Telemann: Sacred Choral Music.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 101.
  • Claude Debussy

    Pour le piano (Toccata)

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 21.
  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op.20

    Orchestra: Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Alba.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance in F major, Op 50

    Performer: Thomas Zehetmair. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • The Teldec Recordings: Thomas Zehetmair.
    • Teldec.
    • 8.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat major D.899 no.4

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonatas D.840, 850 & 894, Impromptus D.899: Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Giovanni Felice Sances

    Stabat mater

    Orchestra: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Singer: N煤ria Rial. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Via Crucis; L'Arpeggiata; Christina Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 11.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 65 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Concert Piece No 2 in D minor, Op 114

    Orchestrator: Carl Baermann. Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Wolfgang Meyer. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Kenneth Sillito.
    • Weber, Mendelssohn etc.: Works for clarinet.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
    • 8-10.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Scherzo in D minor

    Orchestra: Imperial Music Choir. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Rachmaninov: Orchestral Works.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.
  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Let me B

    Ensemble: Schubert Ensemble.
    • NMC.
  • Time Traveller: Physics On The Beach

    Duration: 02:23

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ch'io mi scordi di te?, K 505

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires. Singer: Barbara Hendricks. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Mika Eichenholtz.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 19.
  • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

    Fast Blue Village 2

    Ensemble: Del Sol String Quartet.
    • Zia.
    • Dorian Sono Luminus.
    • 14.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in G major, Op 10 No 5, 'Black key'

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Jeux d'eau

    Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.
    • The Lizst Project.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    Motet: O Domine Jesu Christe

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 122.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty (Panorama)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker: LSO, Previn.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • Judith Kerr's Cultural Inspirations: Quatermass

    Duration: 02:58

  • Gustav Holst

    Mars, the Bringer of War (The Planets, Op 32)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Holst: The Planets: New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.
  • Heinrich Isaac

    Tartara, a 3

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Ferruccio Busoni

    An die Jugend, BV 254: IV. Introduzione e capriccio (Paganinesco)

    • Paganini at the Piano.
    • Grand Piano.
    • 2.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in A major, Wq 182, No 4

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Judith Weir

    厂迟盲苍诲肠丑别苍

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Ailish Tynan.
    • Signum Classics.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    String Quartet No. 3 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 30: IV. Finale. Allegro non troppo e r

    Ensemble: Camerata Bern.
    • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto & String Quartet No. 3.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 107.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue in F major Op.10

    Performer: Tom Poster. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 17.
  • Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger

    Canario

    Performer: Matthew Wadsworth. Performer: Gary Cooper. Performer: Mark Levy.
    • Kapsberger/Piccinini: 14 Silver Strings: Matthew Wadsworth.
    • Deux-Elles.
    • 22.
  • Max Bruch

    String Quartet No 1 in C minor (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Goldner String Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • Franz Berwald

    Estrella de Soria (Overture)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Hyperion.

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