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Friday with Suzy Klein - Respighi's The Birds, Sheila Hancock

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, Respighi's warmly nostalgic suite The Birds starts us off - but there should we go next?

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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 pieces by Handel, William Grant Still and an instrumental rarity from Rossini.

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Fri 27 Jul 2018 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music and featured items

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    3 Waltzes for piano (Op.64), no.1 in D flat major; "Minute"

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter.
    • Chopin: The Complete Waltzes: Ingrid Fliter.
    • EMI.
    • 6.

  • Frederick Delius

    Fennimore and Gerda (Intermezzo)

    Music Arranger: Eric Fenby. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • DG Eloquence.

  • William Byrd

    Pavan and two galliards MB.27.15 (The Earl of Salisbury)

    Performer: Aapo H盲kkinen.
    • Alba.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Introduction, Theme and Variations

    Performer: Diego Dini Ciacci. Orchestra: Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto.
    • Italian Oboe Concertos: Diego Dini Ciacci.
    • CPO.
    • 5.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio Sonata in F major, Op.1 No.1

    Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.
    • LINN.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Birds

    Conductor: Claudio Scimone. Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti.
    • Apex.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and Fugue in B major, Op 87 No 11

    Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva.
    • Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87: Tatiana Nicolayeva.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Elfrida Andr茅e

    Fritiof's Sea Journey (Fritiof Suite)

    Orchestra: Stockholm Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustaf Sj枚kvist.
    • Sterling.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O felix anima

    Choir: Anonymous 4.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Time Traveller: Prosopopoeia

    Duration: 03:04

  • Enrique Granados

    Piano quintet in G minor Op.49

    Performer: Javier Perianes. Ensemble: Cuarteto Quiroga.
    • Granados, Turina 鈥� Piano Quintets.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 1.

  • Einojuhani Rautavaara

    Cantus Arcticus Op.61 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • Rautavaara: Angel of Light etc..
    • BIS.
    • 11.

  • Robert Schumann

    Adagio and Allegro in A flat major Op.70

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Performer: Alasdair Beatson.
    • BIS : BIS-2228 SACD.
    • BIS.
    • 4-5.

  • Cultural Inspirations: Sheila Hancock on her late husband John Thaw鈥檚 love of music

    Duration: 03:30

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in B flat major, Op 130 (5th mvt)

    Ensemble: Elias String Quartet.
    • Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets Volume 1.
    • WIGMORE HALL LIVE.
    • 5.

  • John Ireland

    A London Overture

    Conductor: Richard Hickox. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Ireland: Orchestral & Choral Works - LSO & Chorus/Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in G major, Op 6 No 1

    Orchestra: Handel and Haydn Society. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Decca.

  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no. 4 "Autochthonous" (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Still: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5.
    • NAXOS.
    • 9.

  • Heinrich Sch眉tz

    Deutsches Magnificat (Meine Seele erhebt den Herren) SWV.494

    Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Ensemble: Concerto Palatino. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Eva Dell'Acqua

    Villanelle [With the swallow]

    Singer: Edita Gruberov谩. Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kurt Eichhorn.
    • Orfeo.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Make our garden grow (Candide)

    Singer: Barbara Cook. Singer: Robert Rounseville. Orchestra: Candide Orchestra and chorus. Conductor: Samuel Krachmalnick.
    • CBS.

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  • Fri 27 Jul 2018 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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