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Tuesday with Suzy Klein - Al Murray, Puccini's E lucevan le stelle, The Mystery of Elizabeth Canning

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein . With guest this week, Al Murray.

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

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

1010 Time Traveller 鈥 a quirky slice of history.

1050 Cultural inspirations from comedian, actor and write Al Murray, best known as The Pub Landlord.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    L'italiana in Algeri (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Overtures (The Chamber Orchestra of Europe feat. conductor: Claudio Abbado).
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 003.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G major Op.64`4 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Jubilee Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets.
    • Rubicon Classics.
    • 4.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nicanor Zabaleta. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • DG.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Romance (The Gadfly)

    Music Arranger: Vadim Borisovsky. Performer: Lawrence Power. Performer: Simon Crawford鈥怭hillips.
    • Shostakovich: Music for viola and piano: Power/Crawford-Phillips.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laudate pueri

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Monteverdi: Messa a quattro voci - Vol I.
    • Coro.
    • 7.
  • Claude Debussy

    Tarantelle styrienne for piano

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Flute Concerto in D major RV.428, 'Il gardellino'

    Performer: Lisa Beznosiuk. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Vivaldi: 6 Flute Concertos: Lisa Beznosiuk/English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 10-12.
  • Pau Casals

    Song of the Birds

    Performer: Harriet Krijgh. Orchestra: Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Gimeno.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet quintet in F sharp minor, Op.10 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Stephan Siegenthaler. Ensemble: Leipziger Streichquartett.
    • British Clarinet Quintets.
    • CPO.
    • 5.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Love in her eyes sits playing (Acis and Galatea)

    Singer: Allan Clayton. Ensemble: Early Opera Company. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.
    • Acis And Galatea.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 9.
  • Thomas Arne

    Overture No 1 in E minor

    Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.
    • Chandos.
  • Johann Christian Bach

    Keyboard Sonata in C minor, Op 5 No 6 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Susan Alexander-Max.
    • Naxos.
  • Aaron Copland

    Down a Country Lane

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Aaron Copland.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Barcarolle in F major, Op 108

    Performer: Cristina Ortiz. Ensemble: Fine Arts Quartet.
    • NAXOS.
  • John Adams

    Lollapalooza

    Ensemble: New World Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • New World Jazz: New World Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • BMG Classics.
    • 1.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Tarantelle in A flat major, Op 43

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 12.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

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

    Conductor: Frans Br眉ggen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century.
    • Philips.
  • Johan Svendsen

    Norwegian rhapsody no.3 Op.21

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Johan Svendsen: Orchestral works vol.2: Bergen Philharmonic/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major, Op 39

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Elgar: Symphony no.1, Pomp and circumstance Marches: 大象传媒SO, Davis.
    • Teldec.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D minor for two violins BWV.1043

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Marieke Blankestijn. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Warner.
  • John Cage

    Suite for Toy Piano

    Orchestrator: Lou Harrison. Orchestra: American Composers Orchestra. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
    • ECM.
  • Trad.

    Tarantella del Gargano

    Singer: Alfio Antico. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • ALPHA.
  • Traditional

    Tarantella Italiana

    Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • La Tarantella: L'Arpeggiata/Christine Pluhar.
    • Alpha.
    • 13.
  • Franz Schubert

    Trio for piano and strings in B flat major D.898; 2nd movement; Andante un poco

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Philips.
  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Intermezzo (Hary Janos Suite Op.35a)

    Performer: Laurence Kaptain. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in F major K.280 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Philips.
    • 6.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Five variants of Dives and Lazarus

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits: London Symphony Orchestra/Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

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