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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Nicholas Crane, Mudlarked Roman Pottery, Schubert's Trout Quintet

Suzy Klein with the best in classical music. Her guest is geographer, explorer and writer Nicholas Crane. Part of Along the River, Radio 3's week-long celebration of rivers.

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

Part of Along the River, Radio 3's celebration of rivers as a source of inspiration for artists, writers and composers.

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

1010 Time Traveller 鈥 a quirky slice of history. This week, mudlark Lara Maiklem shares the stories behind five discoveries she has made on the foreshore of the Thames.

1050 Cultural inspirations from this week's guest, the geographer, explorer and writer Nicholas Crane.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Jacques Ibert

    Matin sur l'eau (6 Pieces)

    Performer: Kyunghee Kim-Sutre.
    • La Harpe Consolatrice.
    • Hortus.
    • 1.
  • Steve Hackett

    Tales of the Riverbank (after M Giuliani's Andante in C)

    Performer: Steve Hackett.
    • Camino.
  • Ernest John Moeran

    Prelude for Cello & Piano

    Performer: Gerald Peregrine. Performer: Antony Ingham.
    • Folk Tales.
    • Naxos.
    • 701.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Fair Melusina Op.32

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mendelssohn Overturen London Symphony Orchestra Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Les Nations - La Fran莽oise: Gigue; Chaconne ou Passacaille

    Ensemble: Florilegium.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major, D 667, 'Trout' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Thomas Ad猫s. Performer: Corina Belcea-Fisher. Performer: Krzysztof Chorzelski. Performer: Alasdair Tait. Performer: Corin Long.
    • Ades: Piano Quintet & Schubert: Piano Quintet.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • Ludwig August Lebrun

    Oboe Concerto no.2 in G minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • Lost and Found.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Enrique Granados

    Los requiebros (Goyescas)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Granados: Goyescas: Ohlsson.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Bella figlia dell'amore (Rigoletto)

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Singer: Huguette Tourangeau. Singer: Joan Sutherland. Singer: Sherrill Milnes. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Verdi: Rigoletto.
    • Decca.
    • 11.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major, D 667, 'Trout' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Thomas Ad猫s. Performer: Corina Belcea-Fisher. Performer: Krzysztof Chorzelski. Performer: Alasdair Tait. Performer: Corin Long.
    • Ades: Piano Quintet & Schubert: Piano Quintet.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Beatus Vir

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • DECCA.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    A London Symphony (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Vaughan Williams: London Symphony/Oboe Concerto: Halle/Elder.
    • Halle.
    • 3.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Mazurek in E minor, Op 49, arr. for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Dvorak: Violin Concerto; Romance; Mazurek; Humoresque.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Franz Schubert

    Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D.774

    Singer: Barbara Bonney. Performer: Geoffrey Parsons.
    • Schubert: Lieder: Barbara Bonney: Geoffrey Parsons.
    • Teldec.
    • 11.
  • Claude Debussy

    Poissons d'or (Images, Set 2)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete Works for Piano: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

    Singer: Thomas Quasthoff. Conductor: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Von Otter/Quasthoff/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 9.
  • Nick Kenny

    Gone Fishin'

    Composer: Charles Kenny. Singer: Bing Crosby. Singer: Louis Armstrong.
    • 20 Golden Greats.
    • MCA.
    • 9.
  • Charles Gounod

    Symphony no.1 in D major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Gounod/Bizet: Symphony no.1/L'Arlesienne: St Paul Chamber Orch/Hogwood.
    • Decca.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Clear and gentle stream (7 Part Songs, Op.17)

    Music Arranger: Harvey Brough. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Salve Regina Hob 23b:1 in E major

    Singer: Nancy Argenta. Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 3 in F major, Op 90 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 (Complete): COE, Berglund.
    • Ondine.
    • 1-4.
  • Derek Bourgeois

    Serenade Op.22

    Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Michael Antrobus.
    • Chandos.
  • Tarquinio Merula

    Ciaccona

    Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Via Crucis; L'Arpeggiata; Christina Pluhar.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 14.
  • Philip Glass

    Aguas da Amazonia: No. 4, Amazon River

    Ensemble: Third Coast Percussion.
    • Paddle to the Sea.
    • Cedille.
    • CDR 90000.
    • 21.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet movement in B flat major K.516c

    Orchestrator: Robert Levin. Performer: Martin Fr枚st. Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Boris Brovtsyn. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Torleif Thed茅en.
    • Mozart - Clarinet Concerto; Kegelstatt Trio - Martin Fr枚st.
    • BIS.
    • 7.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in D flat major, Op 70 No 3

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Chopin: Waltzes: Tharaud.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7.
  • Gustav Holst

    Walt Whitman - overture Op.7

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Holst: Cotswolds Symphony.
    • Naxos.

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  • Mon 13 May 2019 09:00

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