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Monday with Suzy Klein - Paul Whitehouse, Chopin's Barcarolle Op 60, Clothes Pegs

Suzy Klein with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, actor and comedian Paul Whitehouse.

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 actor, writer and comedian Paul Whitehouse, creator of unforgettable characters in The Fast Show and in his series with Harry Enfield, tells Suzy about the people, music and ideas that have inspired him over the years.

3 hours

Music and featured items

  • Joseph Haydn

    L' Incontro improvviso. H.28.6 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Heidelberger Sinfoniker. Conductor: Thomas Fey.
    • Hanssler.
  • Suor Leonora d'Este

    Haec dies quam fecit Dominus

    Choir: Musica Secreta. Choir: Celestial Sirens. Director: Laurie Stras. Director: Deborah Roberts.
    • Lucrezia Borgia's Daughter.
    • OBSIDIAN.
    • 3.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 90, B. 166 "Dumky": III. Andante - Vivace non t

    Ensemble: Mori Trio.
    • Dvo艡谩k: Piano Trios Nos. 3 & 4.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 203.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • The sound of England.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 18.
  • Frank Bridge

    Berceuse

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • Bridge: Suite for Strings etc: Britten Sinfonia/Nicholas Cleobury.
    • Conifer.
    • 15.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Benjamin Grosvenor: Homages.
    • Decca.
    • 009.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Quintet in B major, Op 34 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eduard Brunner. Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Mozart / Weber: Clarinet Quintets.
    • DG.
    • 7.
  • Claude Debussy

    Symphony in B minor

    Orchestrator: Tony Finno. Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Jun M盲rkl.
    • NAXOS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Waltz in A flat major, Op 39 No 15

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que.
    • Sony.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in B flat major, K 361, 'Gran Partita' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Chamber Orchestra of Europe Wind Soloists.
    • Mozart Serenade No. 10 for Thirteen Wind Instruments.
    • ASV.
    • 4.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    6 Morceaux Op.19 (no.5, Capriccioso)

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Hyperion.
  • Time Traveller: Clothes Pegs

    Duration: 02:24

  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction and Allegro

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • DG.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Pan and Echo

    Orchestra: Kuopion kaupunginorkesteri. Conductor: Shuntaro Sato.
    • FINLANDIA.
  • Franz Liszt

    La lugubre gondola

    Performer: Alissa Margulis. Performer: Jura Margulis.
    • Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2013.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
    • 4.
  • Gilbert & Sullivan

    We're Called Gondolieri

    Performer: Alan Styler. Performer: Thomas Round. Performer: The D鈥橭yly Carte Opera Company. Orchestra: New Symphony Orchestra of London. Conductor: Isidore Godfrey.
    • The World Of Gilbert & Sullivan.
    • DECCA.
    • 4300952.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laudate pueri

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Monteverdi: Messa a quattro voci - Vol I.
    • Coro.
    • 7.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C major Kk.159 'The Hunt'

    Music Arranger: B茅la Fleck. Music Arranger: Chris Thile. Performer: B茅la Fleck. Performer: Chris Thile.
    • Sony.
  • Cultural Inspirations: Paul Whitehouse on Monty Python's "The Life Of Brian"

    Duration: 04:59

  • Samuel Dushkin

    Tango (Arr. for Violin & Piano)

    Composer: Igor Stravinsky. Performer: Ilya Gringolts. Performer: Peter Laul.
    • Stravinsky: Music for Violin, Vol. 2.
    • BIS.
    • 801.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto no.1 in C (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • John Dowland

    Come again, sweet love doth now invite

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Flow my tears: Iestyn Davis.
    • WIGMORE HALL LIVE.
    • 18.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets & strings, RV559

    Performer: Paolo Grazzi. Performer: Lorenzo Coppola. Performer: Daniele Latini. Performer: Alfredo Bernardini. Orchestra: Zefiro. Director: Alfredo Bernardini.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.
  • Manuel de Falla

    El Pano Moruno (Suite Populaire Espagnole)

    Music Arranger: Paul Kochanski. Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Sebastian Knauer.
    • Ravel/Falla/Schnittke/Bartok/Shankar: East meets West: Daniel Hope.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.
  • Gustav Holst

    Nocturne (A Moorside Suite)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Imogen Holst.
    • Lyrita.
  • Herbert Howells

    Cortege, from Pageantry

    Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata in F major for piano duet, K 497 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Performer: Justus Frantz.
    • Mozart: Music for Piano Duet: Justus Frantz, Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Franz Liszt

    Mephisto Waltz No.1 'The Dance in the Village Inn'

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • PHILIPS.

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