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Tuesday with Suzy Klein - Mr Wicksteed, Sheila Hancock, Schubert's Die schone Mullerin

Suzy Klein with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, actress Sheila Hancock.

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music

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Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today's starting point is Schubert's achingly poetic song cycle Die schone Mullering - what would you choose to follow that?

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Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history

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This week Suzy's guest is the actress and writer Sheila Hancock, who talks about some of the things that have inspired her throughout her life and career

Music also includes works by Sibelius, Beethoven and Poulenc.

3 hours

Music and featured items

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in C minor, Op 10 No 12, 'Revolutionary'

    Performer: Tam谩s V谩s谩ry.
    • Chopin: Piano Works: Tamas Vasary.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio in E major, K 261

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Nederlands Kamerorkest. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 4: Julia Fischer, Kreizberg.
    • Pentatone.
    • 7.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    A Quiet Place - Postlude to Act One

    Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Decca.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Fantasy No 1 in G minor

    Performer: Thea King. Ensemble: Britten String Quartet.
    • HYPERION.
  • Franz Schubert

    Die liebe Farbe, D 795 No 16 (Die sch枚ne M眉llerin)

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Singer: Mark Padmore.
    • Franz Schubert, Die Schone Mullerin: Padmore/Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 16.
  • Franz Schubert

    Die b枚se Farbe, D 795 No 17 (Die sch枚ne M眉llerin)

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Singer: Mark Padmore.
    • Franz Schubert, Die Schone Mullerin: Padmore/Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 17.
  • Jean Sibelius

    At the castle gate (Pelleas and Melisande)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F major, RV.99

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Concerti da Camera Vol. 4: Il Giardino Armonic.
    • Teldec.
    • 1.
  • Clara Schumann

    Sie liebten sich beide, Op 13 No 2

    Singer: Barbara Bonney. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.
  • Clara Schumann

    Liebeszauber, Op 13 No 3

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Singer: Barbara Bonney.
    • DECCA.
  • Clara Schumann

    6 Lieder, Op 13; No 6, 'Die stille Lotusblume'

    Singer: Barbara Bonney. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Tam O'Shanter, Op 51

    Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic.
    • Malcolm Arnold: Overtures: 大象传媒 Philharmonic/Gamba.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Time Traveller: Mr. Wicksteed

    Duration: 02:11

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 6 in F major, K 43

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Robert Schumann

    Frauenliebe und -leben, Op.42

    Performer: Eugene Asti. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Legends Op.59 (no.3 in G minor)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Dvorak: Legends Op.59: ECO, Mackerras.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Cultural Inspirations: Sheila Hancock on the Bronte sisters

    Duration: 04:09

  • Robert Schumann

    In der nacht (Fantasiestucke, Op 12 No 5)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • In the Night - Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Sextet for Piano and Wind (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • Warner.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Va pensiero (Nabucco)

    Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli. Choir: Chorus of German Opera, Berlin. Orchestra: German Opera Orchestra.
    • Verdi: Nabucco - Querschnitt: Guiseppe Sinopoli.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 9.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Caprice in C major for violin solo, Op 1 No 11

    Performer: Julia Fischer.
    • Paganini: 24 Caprices: Julia Fischer.
    • Decca.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Symphony in E major 'Irish' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Torre Bermeja (12 Piezas Caracteristicas)

    Music Arranger: Ginevra Bruno. Performer: Catrin Finch.
    • The Harpist: Catrin Finch.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • Arthur Bliss

    Things to Come (March)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • Classics for Pleasure.

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