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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Judith Weir, Dame Emma Kirkby, Boccherini's La Ritirata di Madrid

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein. Plus guest, Dame Emma Kirkby.

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

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. This morning's starter is Berio's colourful reworking of Boccherini's evocative Ritirata di Madrid - A Spanish garrison marching past at night. Also today, Rachmaninov's swashbuckling Symphony No.2, and Schubert's melting Octet.

1010 Our Classical Century - 100 key moments in the last century of classical music: Judith Weir.

1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the soprano Dame Emma Kirkby.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's blissfully dreamy Clarinet Quintet.

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Tue 16 Jul 2019 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sinfonia (Cantata No 29, 'Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir')

    Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Director: Ottavio Dantone.
    • Bach: Sinfonia: Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Edward Elgar

    May Song

    Performer: Marat Bisengaliev. Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • Elgar: The Violin Music.
    • NAXOS.
    • 12.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Fidelio Op.72 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Simon Rattle Edition: Beethoven.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 801.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Let's Gavotte! (BWV 1006a arr. Benjamin Schmid)

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Schmid.
    • Bach:Reflected.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 103.

  • Gertrude van den Bergh

    Rondeau Op.3

    Performer: Frans van Ruth.
    • NM Classics.

  • Luciano Berio

    Ritirata notturna di Madrid [after Boccherini]

    Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Berio: Orchestral transcriptions: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Guiseppe Verdi.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Robert Schumann

    M盲rchenbilder, Op 113 arr for cello and piano (4th mvt)

    Performer: Karine Georgian. Performer: Jan Willem Nelleke.
    • Schumann: Music for Cello and Piano.
    • Naxos.
    • 11.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    A London Symphony - 3rd movement, Scherzo

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Onyx ONYX 4155.
    • Onyx.
    • 3.

  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major D.803 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Anne Katharina Schreiber. Performer: Danusha Waskiewicz. Performer: Kristin von der Goltz. Performer: James Munro. Performer: Lorenzo Coppola. Performer: Teunis van der Zwart. Performer: Javier Zafra.
    • Schubert: Oktett.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 102.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D major (TWV.54:D3)

    Orchestra: La Stagione Frankfurt. Director: Michael Schneider.
    • CPO 777 891-2.
    • CPO.
    • 1.

  • Our Classcal Century: Judith Weir

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no.2 in E minor Op.27 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 Valery Gergiev.
    • LSO Live.
    • 4.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Quintet in E major, Op 13 No 5: Minuet

    Orchestrator: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jos茅 Serebrier.
    • NAXOS.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Pines of Rome (final movement: 'I Pini della via Appia')

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Respighi: Pines of Rome, etc..
    • EMI.
    • 4.

  • Amy Beach

    From Blackbird Hills Op.83

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Amy Beach: Piano Music Volume 3.
    • GUILD.
    • 11.

  • Emma Kirkby on the lute

  • John Dowland

    It was a time when silly bees could speake [1603]

    Performer: Anthony Rooley. Singer: Emma Kirkby.
    • BIS.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Variations on a rococo theme, Op 33

    Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Trad.

    Mouth Music and Tunes Set

    Performer: Duncan Chisholm. Performer: James MacIntosh. Performer: Ewen Vernal. Performer: Phil Cunningham. Performer: 脡amon Doorley. Performer: Tony Byrne. Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Music Arranger: Phil Cunningham. Music Arranger: Iain MacDonald. Singer: Julie Fowlis.
    • DECCA.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in C minor, Op.46 no.7

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Brahms: Hungarian Dances &Dvorak: Slavonic Dances: Haitink.
    • Philips.
    • 17.

  • Enrique Granados

    La Maja de Goya鈥�(12鈥疶onadillas鈥痚n鈥痚stilo鈥痑ntiguo)鈥�

    Performer: Andr茅s Segovia. Music Arranger: Miguel Llobet Sol茅s.
    • DG.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Stephan Siegenthaler. Ensemble: Leipziger Streichquartett.
    • British Clarinet Quintets.
    • CPO.
    • 6.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Non pi霉 andrai (The Marriage of Figaro)

    Singer: Ildebrando d鈥橝rcangelo. Orchestra: Orchestra of Teatro Regio, Turin. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Mozart: Arias: Ildebrando D'Arcangelo.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Schauspiel Overture Op.4

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.

Broadcast

  • Tue 16 Jul 2019 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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