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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein

Suzy Klein showcases the best in classical music, focusing on Schubert and Sir Simon Rattle's return to the UK as Music Director at the LSO.

Essential Classics with Suzy Klein. Including:

0930 Suzy explores potential companion pieces for the finale of Schubert's Third Symphony

1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history

1050 As part of the "Rattle on Radio 3" season, we hear from Sir Simon about the ideas and influences that are important to him as he returns to the UK as Music Director at the LSO.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 14 Sep 2017 09:00

Music Played

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • NAXOS.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade in C Major for Strings, Op 48 - 1st movement, Pezzo in forma di sonatina

    Orchestra: Metamorphosen Berlin. Conductor: Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt.
    • SONY.
  • Jean Fran莽aix

    Wind Quartet

    Ensemble: Aulos Wind Quartet.
    • Musica Mundi.
  • William Cornysh

    A Robyn, gentyl Robyn

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • GIMELL.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.3 in D major, D.200 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos 3 & 8 "Unfinished": Wiener Phil, Kleiber.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Richard Wagner

    Piano sonata in A flat major (for Mathilde Wesendonck)

    Performer: Mikhail Rudy.
    • EMI.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    L'amante segreto Op.2 no.16

    Singer: Peggy Belanger. Performer: Michel Angers.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony No 6 in D major, Op.60 - 4th movement, Finale (Allegro con spirito)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Zden臎k M谩cal.
    • EXTON.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite suite de concert Op 77 (4th mvt. La tarantelle fretillante)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume 1.
    • CEDILLE.
    • 5.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Cavatina, from String Quartet in B flat major, Op 130

    Ensemble: Budapest String Quartet.
    • SONY.
    • 5.
  • Hubert Parry

    Blest pair of sirens

    Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Choir: Waynflete Singers. Performer: Timothy Byram-Wigfield. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Sir Hubert Parry.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Prokofiev, Britten, Bizet: Symphonies: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Tarantelle in A flat major, Op 43

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 12.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Caster et Pollux (Sc猫ne fun猫bre)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Jean-Philippe Rameau: Une Symphonie Imaginaire.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G major, Op 76 No 1

    Ensemble: Amadeus Quartet.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite, Op 11

    Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Okko Kamu.
    • FINLANDIA.
  • Mark-Anthony Turnage

    Remembering - fourth movement

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • lso live.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in E flat minor, Op.23 no.9

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.
  • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    Elevation, H408

    Singer: Bernadette Degelin. Singer: Diane Verdoodt. Singer: Marina Smolders. Singer: Howard Crook. Singer: Zeger Vandersteene. Singer: Kurt Widmer. Choir: Ch艙ur de Chambre de Namur. Orchestra: Musica Polyphonica. Conductor: Louis Devos.
    • Charpentier: Musique pour les fun茅railles de la Reine Marie-Th茅r猫se.
    • Erato.
    • 4.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.

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