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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Pavarotti's UK debut, Nielsen's Serenata in vano, Essential music for spring

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein.

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

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

1010 Musical Time Travellers 鈥� stories behind the music-making of the British Isles.

1100 Essential Five 鈥� this week we suggest five essential pieces for spring.

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

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Fri 20 Mar 2020 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Richard Wagner

    Das Liebesverbot (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Wagner: Tristan und Isolde/Overtures; Neeme Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    脡tude in B minor, Op.25 no.10

    Performer: Sonya Bach.
    • Chopin: Etudes.
    • Rubicon.
    • 22.

  • Isabella Leonarda

    Sonata VII 脿 tre

    Ensemble: Concerto Soave. Director: Jean-Marc Aymes.
    • AMBRONAY.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Slavonic March, Op 31

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • ORFEO.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Serenata in vano FS.68

    Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.
    • Chamber Music for Horn.
    • Deux-Elles.
    • 10.

  • George Butterworth

    2 English Idylls

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle: English Rhapsody.
    • Halle.
    • 2-3.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    Hosanna to the Son of David

    Orchestrator: Nico Muhly. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Decca.

  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus D.935 (no.2 in A flat major)

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • OTTAVO.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in F major for 2 hunting horns (TWV 52 F3)

    Performer: Wilhelm Bruns. Performer: Oliver Kersken. Ensemble: Neue D眉sseldorfer Hofmusik.
    • MDG.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Triumphal Scene and Grand March (Aida, Act 2)

    Choir: Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Verdi: Choruses / Overtures / Ballet Music.
    • EMI.
    • 9.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Madama Butterfly; Intermezzo

    Conductor: Riccardo Chailly. Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic.
    • DECCA.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Dovunque al mondo (Madama Butterfly, Act 1)

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Decca.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Che gelida manina (La boh猫me)

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Favourite Tenor Arias: Luciano Pavarotti & Friends.
    • Decca.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no.1 in C major H.7b.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Hyperion.

  • Robert Jones

    When I sit reading

    Performer: Anthony Rooley. Singer: Emma Kirkby.
    • Robert Jones: The Muses Gardin - Lute songs: Kirkby/Rooley.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 16.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Vergebliches Standchen

    Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles.
    • EMI.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Serenade in D minor, Op.44 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Bl盲serensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Dvorak/Myslivecek: Blaserserenaden: Blaserensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

  • Claude Debussy

    La s茅r茅nade interrompue (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Debussy: Preludes 1/L'Isle Joyeuse: Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 9.

  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Rapsodia espa帽ola

    Performer: Melani Mestre. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • HYPERION.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet No 14 in D minor, D 810, 'Death and the Maiden' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Schubert: Death and The Maiden: Hagen Quartet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Finale (London, to thee) from Spring Symphony, Op.44

    Singer: Alison Hagley. Singer: Catherine Robbin. Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Choir: Salisbury Cathedral Choir. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Britten; Spring Symphony, Hymn to St Cecilia etc.
    • DG.
    • 012.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite in F minor, HWV 433 (Gigue)

    Performer: Ottavio Dantone.
    • Handel - Suites De Pieces Pour Le Clavecin Vol.2 Ottavio Dantone.
    • Arts.
    • 15.

  • Josef Suk

    Fantastic scherzo Op.25

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Martinu: Symphony No.6 Czech Phil Orch / Belohlavek.
    • Chandos.
    • 009.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    L脿 ci darem la mano (Don Giovanni)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Sospiri: Cecilia Bartoli.
    • Decca.
    • 6.

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Pregando (Lamentate for piano and orchestra)

    Performer: Alexei Lubimov. Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrey Boreyko.
    • Arvo Part: Lamentate.
    • ECM.
    • 5.

  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Battalia a 10 in D major

    Performer: Meret L眉thi. Ensemble: Les Passions de l鈥橝me.
    • Deutsche harmonia mundi.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Etudes-tableaux, Op.39 (no.8)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Hungarian Peasant Songs

    Choir: Hungarian Radio and Television Chorus. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Bartok: Orchestral Works Vol.1: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Fri 20 Mar 2020 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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