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Friday with Suzy Klein - Judith Kerr, Ivor Novello and Mad Frankie Fraser

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

  • Joly Braga Santos

    Alfama Suite - Final Dance

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: 脕lvaro Cassuto.
    • Naxos.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio in E major K.261 for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Z眉rcher Kammerorchester.
    • DG.
  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • EMI.
  • [traditional]

    Los guisados de la berenjena (Traditional Rhodes)

    Singer: Yaniv d'Or. Ensemble: Ensemble NAYA. Ensemble: Barrocade. Conductor: Amit Tiefenbrunn.
    • Naxos.
  • Amy Beach

    Romance, Op.23

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Michael Brown.
    • Echoes.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    English Folk Song Suite

    Orchestrator: Gordon Jacob. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Naxos.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in A major Kk.113

    Performer: Joanna MacGregor.
    • COLLINS CLASSICS.
  • Jean Sibelius

    The Oceanides Op.73

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka鈥怭ekka Saraste.
    • RCA.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach to Baisso

    Composer: Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita. Performer: Catrin Finch. Performer: Seckou Keita.
    • Arc.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Erbarme dich (St Matthew Passion BWV.244)

    Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • AAM RECORDS.
  • Time Traveller: Ivor And Frankie

    Duration: 03:38

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sextet in E flat major Op.81b

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • ASV GOLD.
  • Gustav Holst

    Suite No 2 in F major for military band, Op 28 (March)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • Holst/Vaughan Williams: British Wind Band Classics: Timothy Reynish.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Ernest John Moeran

    The White Mountain

    Performer: Una Hunt.
    • Moeran: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Una Hunt.
    • ASV.
    • 2.
  • Luciano Berio

    Azerbaijan Love Song (Folk Songs)

    Conductor: Luciano Berio. Singer: Cathy Berberian. Ensemble: Julliard Ensemble.
    • Berio: Recital I for Cathy, Folk Songs: Cathy Berberian, Luciano Berio.
    • RCA.
    • 20.
  • John Jenkins

    Divisions On A Ground In C VdGS13

    Performer: Robert Smith. Performer: Paolo Pandolfo.
    • Resonus : RES10186.
    • Resonus.
    • 6.
  • Cultural Inspirations: Judith Kerr on Marc Chagall

    Duration: 02:40

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Carnival of the Animals (Aquarium)

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Philips.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Six melodies pour le piano - Allegro assai

    Performer: B茅atrice Rauchs.
    • BIS.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Stabat Mater - i. Stabat Mater Dolorosa

    Choir: Cappella Amsterdam. Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Reuss.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Tomasso Traetta

    Armida (Overture)

    Ensemble: Concerto K枚ln. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • El Maestro - Farinelli.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 20.
  • Oscar Levant

    Blame it On My Youth

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Performer: Gary Burton.
    • Myrios.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Alla Hornpipe (Water Music, Suite No 2)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Naive.
  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    Lamed (Lamentations of Jeremiah - Good Friday)

    Conductor: Peter Phillips. Choir: Tallis Scholars.
    • Victoria: Lamentations of Jeremiah. The Tallis Scholars.
    • Gimell.
    • 4.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise

    Performer: Scott Long. Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles.
    • Telarc.

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