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Thursday with Suzy Klein - Debussy's Children's Corner, Dame Diana Rigg, Viking Funerals

Suzy Klein brings the best in classical music, including potential companion pieces for Debussy's Children's Corner for piano.

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 Children's Corner for piano, a touching and sometimes quirkily personal evocation of childhood

1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history

1050 Suzy is joined by this week's guest, actor Dame Diana Rigg, and discusses the cultural factors that have influenced her work and life.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic dances - series 2 Op.72, no.11 in F major

    Performer: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • DECCA.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Flute Concerto in G

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Basle Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Warner.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Beata Barbara - motet for 6 voices [1572]

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Baba-Yaga, Op.56

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
  • Claude Debussy

    Children's Corner

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.3: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Alexander Borodin

    String Sextet

    Performer: Louise Williams. Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.
    • ASV.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Suite Bourgeoise

    Performer: Juliette Bausor. Performer: Daniel Bates. Performer: Simon Lepper.
    • Stone Records.
  • Jón Leifs

    Icelandic Folk Dances, Op. 11 - No. 4

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • Bis.
  • Allen George

    Knight Templar

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: David Loukes.
    • The Concert Sound of the Black Dyke Mills Band.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor, BWV 1056

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Berceuse (Dolly Suite, Op.56)

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque.
    • Bizet, Ravel, Faure: Katia & Marielle Labeque.
    • Philips.
    • 13.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Mi-a-ou (Dolly Suite, Op 56)

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque.
    • Bizet, Ravel, Faure: Katia & Marielle Labeque.
    • Philips.
    • 14.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Le jardin de Dolly (Dolly Suite Op.56)

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque.
    • Bizet, Ravel, Faure: Katia & Marielle Labeque.
    • Philips.
    • 15.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Marche Slave, Op.31

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

    Piano Quintet in A major, D 667, 'The Trout' - 4th movement, Theme and Variations

    Performer: Thomas Adès. Performer: Corina Belcea. Performer: Krzysztof Chorzelski. Performer: Alasdair Tait. Performer: Corin Long.
    • EMI.
  • Gustav Holst

    First Suite in E flat, Op. 28/1

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Symphonic Winds. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • Telarc.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV.988 (Aria da capo)

    Performer: Zuzana Růžičková.
    • Erato.
  • Kurt Weill

    Foolish heart (One Touch of Venus)

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 20.
  • Josef Suk

    Mother's Heart (About Mother, Op 28)

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Suk: Piano Works: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    None but the lonely heart, Op 6 No 6

    Performer: Isaac Stern. Music Arranger: Arthur Harris. Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Milton Katims.
    • Humoresque, Favourite Violin Encores: Stern/Columbia Symphony Orch/Brieff/Katims.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Frederick Delius

    Mvt 3 - Late Swallows from String Quartet in E minor

    Ensemble: Villiers Quartet.
    • Delius String Quartet.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Pietro Gnocchi

    Concerto no. 1 in G major

    Orchestra: Main Baroque Orchestra Frankfurt. Conductor: Martin Jopp.
    • Aeolus.
  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor, Op 17 - 4th movement, Allegretto

    Ensemble: Storioni Trio.
    • Ars Produktion.

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  • Thu 28 Sep 2017 09:00

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