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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Rachmaninov鈥檚 Symphonic Dances, Nicholas Crane, Mudlarked Garnets

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.

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Wed 15 May 2019 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon 脿 10, S.137

    Performer: London Symphony Brass. Conductor: Eric Crees.
    • Gabrieli: Music for Brass Vol. 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Uppsala Rhapsody, Op. 24

    Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Lukasz Borowicz.
    • Alfv茅n: Symphony No. 3 in E Major, Uppsala Rhapsody & The Mountain King Suite.
    • CPO.
    • 9.

  • Edward Elgar

    Speak, music, Op 41 No 2

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Alice Coote.
    • The Power of Love, An English Songbook: Alice Coote/Graham Johnson.
    • Hyperion.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ricercar a 6 (A Musical Offering, BWV.1079)

    Ensemble: Sonnerie.
    • Bach: Musical Offering.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • 9.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    3 Symphonic Dances Op.45 (no.2)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Rachmaninoff: The Bells & Symphonic Dances.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 6.

  • Trad.

    Oy que los Cielos se alegran

    Conductor: Tiago Simas Freire. Ensemble: Capella Sanct忙 Crucis.
    • Capella Sanct忙 Crucis: Zuguamb茅 - harmonia nova #3.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 117.

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Spanish Dances (Playera)

    Music Arranger: Paul Cassidy. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Rondo in G Minor, Op.94

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Venzago.
    • Sony.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 16 in C major, K 545 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Christian Blackshaw.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.

  • Fabrice Caietain

    La terre va les eaux boivant

    Conductor: Jo毛l Suhubiette. Ensemble: Ensemble Jacques Moderne.
    • Au Long de la Loire.
    • Mirare.
    • 9.

  • 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.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Rhapsodie in E flat major, Op 119 No 4

    Performer: Lars Vogt.
    • Haydn, Brahms, Lachenmann, Schubert: Lars Vogt.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 13.

  • Maurice Ravel

    La valse

    Orchestra: Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Conductor: Lionel Bringuier.
    • Deutsche Grammophon 479 5524.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.

  • Morten Lauridsen

    O nata lux (Lux aeterna)

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca.
    • 11.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture and Suites from the Operas: Scottish National Orch/Jar.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Johann Paul von Westhoff

    Violin Sonata No 3, 'Imitazione delle campane'

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Jonathan Cohen.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Romanian Folk Dances (Nos 2-6)

    Music Arranger: Jonas Dominique. Performer: Martin Frost. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Martin Frost: Roots.
    • Sony.
    • 10-14.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Leonore Overture No 3, Op 72b

    Orchestra: Berlin Staatskapelle. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72: Barenboim.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 12.

  • Sulpitia Cesis

    Cantate Domino

    Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia. Director: Candace Smith.
    • Tactus.

  • Max Bruch

    Concerto for Clarinet & Viola in E Minor, Op.88 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Dimitri Ashkenazy. Performer: Anton Kholodenko. Orchestra: Baltic Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Mats Liljefors.
    • Weber & Bruch: Works for Clarinet, Viola & Orchestra.
    • Paladino Music.
    • 503.

  • James McMillan

    Memento

    Ensemble: Emperor Quartet.
    • BIS.

  • Claude Debussy

    Estampes (Pagodes)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.

  • Sir Stephen Hough

    Valse 茅nigmatique no.1

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Geoffrey Toye

    The Haunted Ballroom (Waltz)

    Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • NAXOS.

  • Gabriel Piern茅

    Scherzo-Caprice in D major, Op.25

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Performer: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.

Broadcast

  • Wed 15 May 2019 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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