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Thursday with Suzy Klein - Ben Schott, Krasa's Brundibar, Wagner's Liebestod

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

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque No 2 in G major

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅.
    • A Debussy Recital: Pascal Roge.
    • Decca.
    • 18.
  • Juan Cris贸stomo de Arriaga

    Overture in D major, Op.20

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Tarquinio Merula

    Su la cetra amorosa (aria di ciaccona)

    Singer: Montserrat Figueras. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Edward Elgar

    La Capricieuse Op.17

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.
  • Richard Wagner

    Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)

    Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. Orchestra: Royal Opera Orchestra. Singer: Nina Stemme.
    • Wagner: Tristan and Isolde: Antonio Pappano.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in F minor, D 935 No 4

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • Schubert: Impromptus D899 & D935: Krystian Zimerman.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G major for 2 mandolins, RV 532

    Performer: Giovanni Scaramuzzino. Performer: Sonia Maurer. Orchestra: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • Vivaldi: Concert Per Mandolini: Europa Galante, Gabio Biondi.
    • Virgin Veritas.
  • Grace Williams

    Tarantella (The Dancers)

    Choir: Richard Hickox Singers. Ensemble: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Running Set

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Vaughan Williams: Piano Concert.
    • Naxos.
  • Suor Leonora d'Este

    Haec dies quam fecit Dominus

    Choir: Musica Secreta. Choir: Celestial Sirens. Director: Laurie Stras. Director: Deborah Roberts.
    • Lucrezia Borgia's Daughter.
    • OBSIDIAN.
    • 3.
  • Gideon Klein

    String Trio - 2nd movement (Variations on a Moravian Folksong: Lento)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Hans Kr谩sa

    Brundibar (Act 1, Scene 1)

    Choir: Disman Radio Children's Ensemble. Conductor: Joza Karas.
    • Composers from Theresienstadt.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 1.
  • Hans Kr谩sa

    Suite from Brundibar - Valse: Lento cantabile

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Hans Kr谩sa

    Brundibar (Act 2, Scene 6)

    Choir: Disman Radio Children's Ensemble. Conductor: Joza Karas.
    • Composers from Theresienstadt.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 14.
  • Hans Kr谩sa

    Brundibar (Act 2, Scene 7 - Final Chorus)

    Choir: Disman Radio Children's Ensemble. Conductor: Joza Karas.
    • Composers from Theresienstadt.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 15.
  • Arnold Bax

    Woodland Love 'Romance' (Spring Fire)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon duodecimi toni 脿 10, C.179

    Ensemble: Empire Brass Quintet and friends. Conductor: Rolf Smedvig.
    • Gabrieli: Empire brass quintet/Smedvig.
    • TELARC.
    • 001.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Aida: Act IV, Scene 2

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Singer: Anja Harteros. Singer: Ekaterina Semenchuk. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Choir: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • WARNER.
  • Cl茅ment Doucet

    Isoldina

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Alexandre Tharaud: Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 15.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in B Major, D.575 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Weber & Schubert: Sonatas.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 7.
  • Henry Purcell

    March (Funeral Music for Queen Mary)

    Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists.
    • Purcell: Music for Queen Mary.
    • Warner Apex.
    • 10.
  • Henry Purcell

    Man that is born of a woman from Funeral Music for Queen Mary

    Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists.
    • Purcell: Music for Queen Mary.
    • Warner Apex.
    • 12.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • DG.
  • George Gershwin

    Rhapsody in Blue

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • DECCA.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Sinfonia for strings in G minor

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • Venice by Night.
    • Avie.
    • 5-7.
  • 讬讜住祝 讛讚专

    Evening Of Roses

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Oliver James. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga Gra啪inyt臈鈥怲yla.
    • Inspiration.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No 6 in E minor for keyboard, BWV 830 (Sarabande)

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • J.S. Bach: 6 Partitas, BWV 825-830, Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
    • 19.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Five Novelettes, Op.15 (Alla spagnuola)

    Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
    • Les Vendredis.
    • Simax.
    • 11.
  • Gustav Mahler

    R眉ckert Lieder: No.4, 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen'

    Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Bruno Walter.
    • DECCA.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Op.84 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'/Prometheus/Egmont.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Thu 14 Feb 2019 09:00

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