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Vivienne Westwood, Debussy, and mesmerising cows

Suzy Klein brings the best in classical music, and talks to iconic fashion designer Vivienne Westwood about the works of art that have influenced her.

Essential Classics with Suzy Klein

Suzy Klein takes us through the morning with the best in classical music including :

0930 Suzy explores potential companion pieces for Debussy's "Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune."
Debussy's famous orchestral tone-poem is a languorous and hazy evocation of a shimmering heat-infused afternoon. Despite its apparent calm, the ten-minute piece changed the course of music history as the strange and ambiguous melodies and harmonies took musical composition in a radically new direction.

1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history. Matthew Sweet tells a story of how a Victorian cow came to be mesmerised.

1050 Suzy is joined by iconic fashion designer and activist Vivienne Westwood. Today, she talks about the creative partnership with her husband, the designer Andreas Kronthaler and the joy of recycling ideas!

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Fri 22 Sep 2017 09:00
91热爆 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Moments musicaux, Op.16 (No.6)

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • Rachmaninov: Preludes, Moments musicaux: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • Erato.
    • 17.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Flute Concerto in D major RV.428 'The Goldfinch'

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Tognetti.
    • EMI.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    Joie du sang des 茅toiles (Turangal卯la-Symphonie)

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Cynthia Millar. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Hyperion.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Vespers (Laetatus Sum)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Linn.

  • Claude Debussy

    Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Debussy: Orchestral Music: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Haitink.
    • Decca.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Bagatelles Op.47 (no.5)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Dvorak: String Quartets: Takacs Quartet.
    • Decca.
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no. 8 (Op.93) in F major, 1st mvt; Allegro vivace e con brio

    Orchestra: Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Much Ado About Nothing

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Andr茅 Previn.
    • DG.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio and rondo in C minor K.617

    Performer: Dennis James. Ensemble: Salzburg Soloists.
    • NAXOS.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Grand March (Aida)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • SONY.

  • Frederick Delius

    The Walk to the Paradise Garden

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet No 17 in B flat major, K 458, 'The Hunt' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Hagen Quartet Mozart.
    • Myrios.
    • 8.

  • Erik Satie

    Je te veux

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • The Magic of Satie.
    • Decca.
    • 11.

  • Michael Torke

    Bright Blue Music

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Michael Torke: Ecstatic Orange etc..
    • ARGO.
    • 5.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Trumpet Concerto in D major (2nd mvt, Adagio)

    Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Iona Brown.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in A major, Op 118 No 2

    Performer: H茅l猫ne Grimaud.
    • ERATO.

  • Margaret Hubicki

    Rigaudon (Lonely Mere and Rigaudon)

    Performer: Robert Max. Performer: Leyland Kirby.
    • Chandos.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Guitar Quintet no. 9 in C major G.453 `La ritrata di Madrid` - 4th mvt

    Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Boccherini : String & Guitar Quintets, Minuet in A.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 211.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.2 in C minor 'Resurrection' (4th mvt)

    Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • G. Mahler, Symphony no. 2 'Resurrection': Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.

  • Gabriel Piern茅

    Scherzo-caprice

    Performer: Stephen Coombs. Orchestra: 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Pierne: The Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra: Stephen Coombs, 91热爆SSO, Corp.
    • Hyperion.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Suscipe clementissime Deus

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts.
    • Kings College Cambridge.

  • George Gershwin

    Stairway to Paradise; The man I love

    Ensemble: Harmonie Ensemble New York. Conductor: Steven Richman.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

Broadcast

  • Fri 22 Sep 2017 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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