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Tuesday with Suzy Klein - Ben Schott, Elgar's Cockaigne Overture

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Suzy Klein's guest is writer Ben Schott.

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

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Our Classical Century - 100 key moments in the last century of classical music.

1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the photographer, writer and 鈥渕iscellanist鈥, Ben Schott.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection

3 hours

Music Played

  • Jean Sibelius

    Scherzo for strings

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • Sibelius: Orchestral Works: Vanska/Jarvi.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Henry Purcell

    The Fairy Queen - suite

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Fontalis.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    6 Bagatelles, Op. 126: No. 6 in E-Flat Major

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • Beethoven: 6 Bagatelles & Piano Sonatas Nos. 31 & 32.
    • BIS.
    • 11.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gloria in excelsis Deo (Cantata No 191)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J.S. Bach, Cantatas Vol 18: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 8.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Legend in G minor, Op.59 no.3

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Philips.
  • Richard Wagner

    Spinning Chorus (The Flying Dutchman)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Louis Lortie.
    • Liszt at the Opera.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 36 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Singer: Charlotte Margiono. Singer: Rudolf Schasching. Singer: Birgit Remmert. Singer: Robert Holl. Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chorus. Conductor: Erwin Ortner.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.
    • 2.
  • Charlotte Bray

    Agnus Dei (a reflection on Byrd's Agnus Dei from the Mass for 5 voices)

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Rondo 脿 la krakowiak in F major, op 14

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson. Orchestra: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Kazimierz Kord.
    • HYPERION.
  • Richard Wagner

    Prelude (Act 1 'Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg')

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
  • Edward Elgar

    Cockaigne

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
  • Josef Suk

    Piano Quartet in A minor Op.1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ian Brown. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Josef Suk: Piano Quintet/Piano Quartet: The Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Danse Villageoise (Suite Pastorale)

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Mirare.
  • Franz Schubert

    Gretchen am Spinnrade D. 118

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Olena Tokar.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Le rouet d'Omphale

    Performer: Maya Iwabuchi. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Saint-Saens: Neeme Jarvi conducts.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Entr茅e de Polimnie (Les Bor茅ades)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Rameau: Une Symphonie Imaginaire: Les Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 16.
  • William Kroll

    Banjo and Fiddle

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Piers Lane. Performer: William Kroll.
    • Virtuoso Violin.
    • EMI Eminence.
    • 016.
  • A.H.D. Troyte

    Sunset Poem

    Performer: Bryan Davies. Singer: Bryn Terfel.
    • DG.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90, 'Italian' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream (excerpts) etc: Berliner Philharmoniker/Abb.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 15.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue in F major Op.10

    Performer: Tom Poster. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 17.
  • Carl Orff

    O Fortuna (Carmina burana)

    Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
  • Georges Bizet

    Jeux d'enfants (Petite Suite) for orchestra

    Orchestra: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Rossini-Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque - Davis.
    • CBS.
    • 13.
  • Philip van Wilder

    Pater noster

    Ensemble: Gallicantus. Conductor: Gabriel Crouch.
    • Queen Mary's Big Belly.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Il Signor Bruschino (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Warner Classics.
  • John Dowland

    Lachrimae antiquae - pavan for 5 viols and lute [Lachrimae or 7 Teares, 1604]

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Linn Records CKD 527.
    • Linn Records.
    • 1.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony no.1 in D major, Op.25 'Classical'

    Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Hugh Wolff.
    • Prokofiev/Haydn/Bizet: First Symphonies: Saint Paul Chamber Orch/Wolff.
    • Apex.
    • 1.

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  • Tue 12 Feb 2019 09:00

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