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Essential Classics with Suzy Klein

Suzy Klein showcases the best in classical music, focusing on Beethoven 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 Beethoven. Piano Sonata in C sharp minor 'Moonlight' - i. Adagio sostenuto
One of Beethoven's most famous piano works even during his own lifetime, the German poet Ludwig Rellstab remarked that the first movement of the Sonata in C sharp minor evoked moonlight shining upon Lake Lucerne - the idea has continued to resonate with listeners through the centuries.

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.

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Music Played

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Marche miniature viennoise

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Paul Coker.
    • The Kreisler Album: Joshua Bell/Paul Coker.
    • Decca.
    • 15.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major for 2 trumpets, RV.537

    Performer: Crispian Steele鈥怭erkins. Performer: John Thiessen. Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Jeanne Lamon.
    • Trumpet Music: Steele-Perkins, Taflemusik, Lamon.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9-11.

  • J贸n Leifs

    Requiem

    Choir: Motet Choir Of Hallgrim's Church. Conductor: Horthur Askelsson.
    • BIS : CD-1030.
    • BIS.
    • 002.

  • Augusta Holm猫s

    Night and Love (Ludus pro Patria)

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland鈥怭falz. Conductor: Patrick Davin.
    • MARCO POLO.

  • William Walton

    Battle Of Britain Suite

    Music Arranger: Barrie Hingley. Ensemble: Central Band of the Royal Air Force. Conductor: Wing Commander Duncan Stubbs.
    • Royal Air Force 100th Anniversary.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 15.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight': I. Adagio Sostenuto

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.

  • John Rutter

    Veni Sancto Spiritus

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • John Rutter: A Song in Season. Cambridge Singers/RPO.
    • Collegium.
    • 8.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in D major, H.15.8

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Anon.

    Old Simon the King

    Performer: Pamela Thorby. Ensemble: Palladian Ensemble.
    • Linn.

  • Frank Bridge

    The Sea (Moonlight)

    Performer: Janice Graham. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Bridge: Orchestral Works: Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Herr, unser Herrscher (St John Passion, BWV 245)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach: Sacred Choral Works: Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 1.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 4.
    • Chandos.
    • 005.

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: H茅l猫ne Grimaud.
    • DG.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Festival Scherzo

    Performer: Martin Roscoe. Ensemble: Guildhall String Ensemble. Conductor: Robert Salter.
    • HYPERION.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    La Barcheta (Venezia)

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Souvenirs De Venise.
    • Helios.
    • 13.

  • Claude Debussy

    Premiere rhapsodie for clarinet and orchestra

    Performer: Franklin Cohen. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in G major, Op.3`3

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Erato.

  • Charles Gounod

    Funeral March of a Marionette

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • European Light Music Classics: New London Orch/Corp.
    • Hyperion.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphonic Dances Op.45 (no.1)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, The Isle of the Dead, The Rock.
    • Avie.
    • 1.

  • Eug猫ne Gigout

    Toccata in B minor

    Performer: Colin Walsh.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto no.2 in F major Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hugh Wolff.
    • Warsaw Concerto: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Abduction from the Seraglio (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Mozart: Overtures: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Marriner.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Judith Bingham

    The Drowned Lovers

    Singer: Martha McLorinan. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 14.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue Bird (8 Partsongs Op.119)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 15.

  • Billy Mayerl

    Phil the Fluter's Ball

    Performer: Philip Dyson.
    • Billy Mayerl: The Nimble Fingered Gentleman: Philip Dyson.
    • ASV.
    • 17.

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  • Tue 12 Sep 2017 09:00
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