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Monday with Suzy Klein - Big cheeses, Bach, Dame Felicity Lott

Suzy Klein with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, soprano Dame Felicity Lott.

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today's starter piece is Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Other music in the programme includes beautiful renaissance choral singing from the quill of John Sheppard, a miniature Mozart symphony, and new releases of music by Beethoven.

1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history. Today Matthew Sweet celebrates some big cheeses, quite literally.

1050 This week Suzy's guest is the soprano Dame Felicity Lott, who talks about the people, places, times and ideas that have inspired her. Her first inspiration is another singer she discovered while studying in France in the 1960s.

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Music and featured items

  • Anton Stepanovich Arensky

    Concert Waltz in B flat major

    Performer: Sergei Nakariakov. Performer: Alexander Markovich.
    • Sergei Nakariakov: Trumpet & Piano.
    • Teldec.
    • 2.

  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto Grosso no.11 in E major after Corelli

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Geminiani: Concerti Grossi: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 18.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Paul Bunyan (Overture)

    Orchestrator: Colin Matthews. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Steuart Bedford.
    • Naxos.

  • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    Te Deum, H146 (Prelude)

    Conductor: Nicholas Kraemer. Ensemble: Raglan Baroque Players.
    • Music from the Courts of Europe: The Raglan Baroque Players, Nicholas Kraemer.
    • United.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 21 in C major, Op 53 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Matan Porat.
    • LUX.
    • Mirare.
    • 104.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV.565

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Toccata colle campanella (Symphony No 8 in D minor)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphonies nos 6 & 8 etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • John Sheppard

    In pace, in idipsum dormiam

    Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Gaude, gaude, gaude Maria.
    • Chandos.
    • 002.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.31 in D major K.297 'Paris'

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • LINN.

  • Time Traveller: Lipton And The Cheeses

    Duration: 03:14

  • Vincent Youmans

    Tahiti trot (Tea for two) (Op.16) [from 'No, no, Nanette']

    Music Arranger: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • Cy Coleman

    Overture to Barnum

    Ensemble: Original Cast.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture Op.96

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Signum.

  • Teresa Carre帽o

    Elegia No 2, Op 18, 'Partie'

    Performer: Clara Rodriguez.
    • Teresa Carreno: Clara Rodriguez.
    • Nimbus.
    • 8.

  • Thomas Arne

    Fly soft ideas (Artaxerxes)

    Singer: Elizabeth Watts. Ensemble: Classical Opera Company. Conductor: Ian Page.
    • Arne: Artaxerxes; Classical Opera Company, Ian Page.
    • Linn.
    • 23.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Fugue)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra: 大象传媒 SO/Davis.
    • Teldec.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Toccata in D minor Op.11

    Performer: Nikolai Demidenko.
    • Hyperion.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Elegy in F major Op.22

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simon Mulligan.
    • Nimbus.

  • Cultural Inspirations: Dame Felicity Lott on Regine Crespin

    Duration: 04:17

  • Maurice Ravel

    Asie (from Sheherazade)

    Singer: R茅gine Crespin. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.
    • Berlioz / Ravel.
    • Decca.
    • 007.

  • Sylvius Leopold Weiss

    Sonata in D Major (Passacaille)

    Performer: Nigel North.
    • BGS.

  • Carlos Gardel

    Por una cabeza

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Alexander Sitkovetsky. Performer: Leonard Elschenbroich. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.
    • Nicola Benedetti: The Silver Violin.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Robert Schumann

    Abegg Variations Op.1

    Performer: Lise de la Salle.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Navarra Op.33

    Performer: Chlo毛 Hanslip. Performer: Mikhail Ovrutsky. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Bruch - Violin Concertos nos. 1 & 3: Sarasate - Navarra.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
    • 7.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in B minor, Op 64 No 2 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Haydn String Quartets Op 64.
    • Chandos.
    • 006.

  • Hector Berlioz

    The Damnation of Faust (Hungarian March)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique B谩tiz.
    • Orchestral Lollipops: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Enrique Batiz.
    • RPO.
    • 8.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    10 Preludes Op.23 (no.6 in E flat major)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Les v锚pres siciliennes (Overture)

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Verdi: Choruses, Overtures, Ballet Music: Muti.
    • EMI.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Mon 9 Jul 2018 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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