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Monday with Suzy Klein - Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, Ben Schott, Carnival of Venice

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

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No 1 in B-flat major, K207 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Nikolaj Znaider. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • LSO Live.
  • Anonymous

    Chacona ytaliana

    Ensemble: Piffaro, The Renaissance Band.
    • Spanish Renaissance Wind Music: Piffaro - the Renaissance Band.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 4.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Piano Sonata No.2, Op.39 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Weber & Schubert: Sonatas.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.
  • George Frideric Handel

    My heart is inditing, HWV.261

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Handel Coronation Anthems.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 112.
  • Jean-Baptiste Arban

    Variations on The Carnival of Venice

    Music Arranger: Donald Hunsberger. Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Donald Hunsberger.
    • CBS.
  • Cheryl Frances-Hoad

    Invocatio For String Quartet

    Ensemble: Wihan Quartet.
    • Elegy for Pamela.
    • Nimbus.
    • 2.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Canta dolce il rosignolo (La gloria di Primavera)

    Singer: Simone Kermes. Ensemble: Le Musiche Nove. Director: Claudio Osele.
    • Simone Kermes - Colori D'Amore - Le Musiche Nove; Claudio Osele.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 2 in C Minor "Resurrection" (3rd mvt)

    Composer: Gilbert Kaplan. Composer: Renate Stark-Voit. Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor "Resurrection".
    • BIS.
    • 3.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Tu es Petrus

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Martin Baker.
    • Hyperion.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Quartet for the End of Time

    Performer: Annalien Van Wauwe. Ensemble: Amatis Trio.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no.5 in D major BWV.1050 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kati Debretzeni. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, English Baroque Soloists.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 6.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Flight of the Bumblebee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Donald Hunsberger.
    • SONY.
  • Francisco T谩rrega

    Gran jota aragonesa

    Performer: Emmanuel Rossfelder.
    • Carnets de voyage.
    • MIRARE.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in C major, H.15.27 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios, Vol.1: The Florestan Trio.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Claude Debussy

    Green (Ariettes oubli茅es)

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Lisa Milne.
    • HYPERION.
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Drinking Song (Les Huguenots)

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Darrell Ang.
    • Meyerbeer: Overtures and Entr'actes.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Concerto in A minor for oboe and strings

    Performer: Stephane Rancourt. Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • 贬补濒濒茅.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, Op 19 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Fran莽ois-Fr茅d茅ric Guy. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Philippe Jordan.
    • Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 Francois-Frederic Guy Orchestre Philharmoni.
    • Naive.
    • 3.
  • William Byrd

    Pavana Bray

    Performer: Julian Bream.
    • RCA Victor Red Seal.
  • John Tavener

    The Veil of the Temple (Mother of God, Here I Stand) [improvisation by S. Datta]

    Composer: Soumik Datta. Performer: Soumik Datta. Orchestra: O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Hugo Ticciati.
    • White Light: The Space Between.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 5.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, Op 114 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Pascal Moragu猫s. Performer: Christian Polt茅ra. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • 滨苍诲茅厂贰狈厂.
  • Jean Mouton

    Nesciens mater virgo virum for 8 voices

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Pilgrimage To Santiago.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.
    • 17.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Overture Op.26

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Hyperion.

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  • Mon 11 Feb 2019 09:00

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