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Suzy Klein with the best in classical music. Plus historian and presenter Lucy Worsley talks about her cultural inspirations.
Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 Each day this week the historian, author and presenter Lucy Worsley talks about the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped her life and career.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture in C major, Op 115 (Name Day)
Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Beethoven: Symphony No.9: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/ Chailly.
- Decca.
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Cécile Chaminade
L' Ondine [The Water sprite] Op.101
Performer: Peter Jacobs.- Chaminade: Piano Music - 1, Peter Jacobs.
- Helios.
- 6.
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Miklós Rózsa
Danza (3 Hungarian Sketches, Op.14)
Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.- Miklos Rozsa - Orchestral Works Vol 1.
- Chandos.
- 004.
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Edvard Grieg
Violin Sonata No 3 in C minor, Op 45 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Vineta Sareika. Performer: Amandine Savary.- Edvard Grieg: Violin Sonatas.
- MUSO.
- 8.
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Percy Grainger
Gum-Suckers' March (In a Nutshell) version for wind ensemble
Orchestra: Kongelige norske marines musikkorps. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.- Grainger: Complete Music for Wind Band, Vol. 2.
- Naxos.
- 101.
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Frédéric Chopin
Grande Valse Brillante in E flat major Op.18
Performer: Ingrid Fliter.- Chopin: Complete Waltzes.
- EMI Classics.
- 1.
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Leó Weiner
Divertimento no.4 Op.38
Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Leo Weiner - Five Divertimentos / Serenade.
- Chandos.
- 019.
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Igor Stravinsky
Suite for violin and piano 'after themes, fragments, and pieces by Pergolesi'
Performer: Anthony Marwood. Performer: Thomas Adès.- Stravinsky: Complete music for violin and piano: Marwood/Ades.
- Hyperion.
- 1.
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Johannes Brahms
Serenade no.1 in D major Op.11 (6th mvt)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.- Sony Classical.
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Time Traveller: Cockaigne
Duration: 02:32
Orlande de Lassus
De profundis (De profundis clamavi ad te Domine no.6)
Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
Louis Andriessen
Instrumental II (M is for Man, Music, Mozart)
Orchestra: Orkest de Volharding. Conductor: Jurjen Hempel.- De Stijl / M is for Man, Music Mozart.
- Elektra Nonesuch.
- 005.
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Le banjo
Performer: Alan Marks.- 'The Lady Fainted'.
- Nimbus.
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Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso in D major, Op 6 No 4
Orchestra: Harmony of Nations Baroque Orchestra. Director: Alfredo Bernardini.- Les Caracteres de la Danse.
- Raumklang.
- 009.
Cultural Inspirations: Lucy Worsley on Bishop Asser's "Life Of King Alfred"
Duration: 03:26
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The King's Joy
Performer: Llio Rhydderch. Performer: Elin Wyn Jones. Music Arranger: Llio Rhydderch.- Melangell.
- Fflach:Tradd.
- 012.
Michael Abels
Delights and Dances
Ensemble: Harlem String Quartet. Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.- Delights & Dances.
- Cedille.
- 001.
Gabriel Fauré
Après un rêve; Clair de lune
Performer: Susan Manoff. Singer: Sandrine Piau.- Ïշ.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quartet for oboe and strings in F major, K.370 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Performer: Boris Brovtsyn. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Kristina Blaumane.- BIS.
Agustín Barrios Mangoré
Waltz in D minor, Op 8 No 3
Performer: Jens Stibal.- Guild.
Modest Mussorgsky
Intermezzo Symphonique in Modo Classico
Orchestrator: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.- Mussorgsky - Without the Sun.
- RCA Victor Red Seal.
- 002.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Largo from Trio Sonata No 5, BWV 529 (transc. Samuil Feinberg)
Performer: Martin Roscoe.- Bach Piano Transcriptions 4.
- Hyperion.
- 003.
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet no.1 in E flat major (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Minetti Quartet.- Mendelssohn Bartholdy - String Quartets op.13 and 12.
- Hanssler Classic.
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Witold Lutosławski
Symphonic Variations
Orchestra: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antoni Wit.- NAXOS.
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- Wed 18 Apr 2018 09:00ѿý Radio 3