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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Mudlarked Bellarmine Bottles, Walton鈥檚 Henry V, Nicholas Crane

Suzy Klein with the best in classical music. Her guest is geographer, explorer and writer Nicholas Crane. Part of Along the River, Radio 3's week-long celebration of rivers.

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

Part of Along the River, Radio 3's celebration of rivers as a source of inspiration for artists, writers and composers.

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

1010 Time Traveller 鈥 a quirky slice of history. This week, mudlark Lara Maiklem shares the stories behind five discoveries she has made on the foreshore of the Thames.

1050 Cultural inspirations from this week's guest, the geographer, explorer and writer Nicholas Crane.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Joachim Raff

    Symphony no.3 in F major, Op.153 'Im Walde' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Francesco d'Avalos.
    • Raff: Symphony No.3.
    • ASV Digital.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Trio in G major, K 564 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Simon Crawford鈥怭hillips. Performer: Malin Broman. Performer: Jesper Svedberg. Ensemble: Kungsbacka Trio.
    • Mozart: Piano Trios 2.
    • Naxos.
  • Heinrich Sch眉tz

    Cantate Domino canticum novum, SWV81

    Ensemble: Magnificat Baroque Ensemble. Director: Philip Cave.
    • LINN.
  • Traditional Peruvian

    Folias criollas

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat major Op.83 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.
    • Brahms: Piano Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • William Walton

    Overture 'The Globe' (Henry V)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: London Philharmonic Choir. Conductor: Carl Davis.
    • Walton: The Battle of Britain- Suite.
    • EMI DIGITAL.
    • 1.
  • Hans G谩l

    Cello Concerto, op.67 - 2nd mvt 'Andante'

    Performer: Ant么nio Meneses. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Cl谩udio Cruz.
    • Gal - Elgar: Cello Concertos.
    • Avie.
    • 2.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Presto in C major

    Ensemble: Arditti Quartet.
    • MONTAIGNE.
  • Charles-Valentin Alkan

    Aesop's Feast, Op 39 No 12

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Alkan: Grande Sonate; Sonatine; Le Festin D'Esope.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Stephen Goss

    Evocaci贸n (Alb茅niz Concerto)

    Performer: Xuefei Yang. Orchestra: Orquestra Simf貌nica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. Conductor: Eije Oue.
    • Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez: Xuefei Yang.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.
  • 罢谤盲诲

    Pass around the grog (sea shanty)

    Music Arranger: Thomas Guthrie. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • RUBICON.
  • John Playford

    Wallom Green from The English Dancing Master 1651

    Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • RUBICON.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 92 in G major, 'Oxford' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Haydn: Symphonies Nos 92 and 93, 97-99.
    • LSO Live.
    • 4.
  • Max Reger

    Scherzo (Romantic Suite)

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Lyon Opera Soloists.
    • Schoenberg: Kaiserwalzer and other Transcriptions: Soliste de l'Opera National d.
    • Erato.
    • 2.
  • William Walton

    Prelude, 'The Globe' (Henry V)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: London Philharmonic Choir. Conductor: Carl Davis.
    • Walton: The Battle of Britain- Suite.
    • EMI DIGITAL.
    • 1.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Courtly Dances: March & Coranto (Gloriana Suite Op.53a)

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Benjamin Britten: Works for Orchestra.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 3.
  • Unknown

    Deo Gracias Anglia (Agincourt carol, 15th century English)

    Choir: Opus Anglicanum.
    • Green and Pleasant Land.
    • Opus Anglicanum.
    • 019.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    The Duel and Death of Hamlet (Hamlet Suite, Op 116a)

    Performer: Yuri Torchinsky. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky. Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic.
    • Shostakovich: Film music vol.3: 91热爆 Philharmonic/Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Chris Fitkin

    Sextet

    Ensemble: Piano Circus.
    • ARGO.
  • William Alwyn

    Bicycle Ride

    Performer: Mark Bebbington.
    • SOMM.
  • Gustav Holst

    First Dance (Beni Mora, Op.29`1))

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • NAXOS.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Variations on a Rococo Theme

    Performer: Truls M酶rk. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Virgin.
  • George Frideric Handel

    These labours past (Jephtha)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Singer: Robin Blaze. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Nicholas Kraemer.
    • Handel: Great Oratorio Duets.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Tobias Picker

    Old and Lost Rivers

    Orchestra: Houston Symphony. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Barber, Copland, Berstein, PIcker: American Music of the 20th Century.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 14.
  • John Ireland

    Amberley Wild Brooks

    Performer: John Lenehan.
    • Ireland: Piano Works 3: John Lenehan.
    • Naxos.
    • 15.
  • Traditional Danish

    Ribers No. 8

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Wood Works.
    • Dacapo.
    • 5.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Christus factus est 1884 version

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Bruckner: Mass in E minor/Motets: Polyphony/Britten Sinfonia/Layton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Op.84 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'/Prometheus/Egmont.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

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  • Thu 16 May 2019 09:00

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