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Tuesday - Suzy Klein with Dame Diana Rigg, Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture and the Victorian seaside

Suzy Klein brings the best in classical music, and chats to Dame Diana Rigg about the things that have inspired her over the years.

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

0930 Suzy explores potential companion pieces for Mendelssohn's much loved Hebrides Overture, inspired by his trip to Fingal's Cave on the Scottish Island of Staffa.

1010 Time Traveller - a quirky slice of cultural history. Kate Romano on the Victorians love of a trip to the British seaside

1050 Throughout the week we'll hear from Dame Diana Rigg, most recently on our screens in "Game of Thrones" and "Victoria", talking about the cultural icons that have inspired her over the years. Today, she talks about a self-portrait by Rembrandt that has a special place in her heart.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Juan García de Zéspedes

    Convidando está la noche

    Ensemble: Ex Cathedra Choir. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Hyperion.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Cello Concerto no.1 in A minor, op.33 - 3rd mvt

    Performer: Antônio Meneses. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Cláudio Cruz.
    • Avie.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Impromptu in B major, Op.14 No.1

    Performer: Klara Min.
    • STEINWAY & SONS.
  • William Mathias

    A Dance Overture Op.16

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Atherton.
    • Mathias: Orchestral Works.
    • Lyrita.
    • 001.
  • John Playford

    Faronell's Division

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides, Op 26

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mendelssohn: Overtures: LSO/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

    Totus Tuus

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • Universal.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Scherzo-valse (Suite pastorale)

    Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Bizet/Chabrier: Les Siecles/Francois-Xavier Roth.
    • Mirare.
    • 8.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Fantasia in C minor, K 475

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • Mozart: Piano Sonatas/Fantasies: Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Edward Elgar

    Where corals lie (Sea Pictures, Op 37)

    Singer: Janet Baker. Conductor: John Barbirolli. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Elgar: Cello Concerto/Sea Pictures: Du Pre/Baker/Barbirolli.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Sonata in C, Op. 1 no 5

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • ALPHA.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Rondeau, Op 97

    Performer: Nils‐Erik Sparf. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • DG.
  • Hamish MacCunn

    Land of the Mountain and the Flood

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Gibson.
    • Chandos.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C major, Kk.72

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • D. Scarlatti: Sonatas: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 6.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate of Kiev

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Otoño Porteño (Autumn), from Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas

    Music Arranger: Leonid Desyatnikov. Performer: Lara St. John. Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Eduardo Marturet.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.
    • Ancalagon.
    • 13.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in A minor, Op 34 No 2

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Chopin: Waltzes: Tharaud.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.
  • Alfred Schnittke

    The Building Plot (The Waltz suite)

    Music Arranger: Frank Strobel. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Frank Strobel.
    • CAPRICCIO.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Waltz of the Snowflakes)

    Choir: Libera. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.
  • Niccolò Jommelli

    Sinfonia in E flat major [The Periodical Overtures in 8 parts]

    Orchestra: Concerto Köln. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • El Maestro - Farinelli.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 19.
  • Franz Schubert

    Du bist die Ruh, D776

    Performer: Dalton Baldwin. Singer: Elly Ameling.
    • Philips.
  • Richard Wagner

    Tannhauser: Overture

    Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • DG.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Septet in E flat major Op.20 (4th mvt)

    Music Arranger: Georg Druschetzky. Ensemble: Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Beethoven: Octet etc.: Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble.
    • EMI.
    • 9.

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  • Tue 26 Sep 2017 09:00

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