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Wednesday with Suzy Klein - Dame Felicity Lott, Poulenc, Paris catacombs

Suzy Klein with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, soprano Dame Felicity Lott.

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music. Today's music includes Bryn Terfel singing "The trumpet shall sound" from "Messiah", Wagner's Flying Dutchman overture, and Hubert Parry's "Lady Radnor's Suite".

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today - what would you pair with Poulenc's lyrical and melancholic flute sonata?

1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history. Joanna Paul on a grisly concert in the Paris catacombs.

1050 This week Suzy's guest is the soprano Dame Felicity Lott, who talks about the people, places, times and ideas that have inspired her. Today she talks about her love for Sussex, and Glyndebourne.

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Wed 11 Jul 2018 09:00
蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Music and featured items

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Polonaise in E flat major

    Performer: Antal Dor谩ti. Performer: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Dvorak: Czech Suite, Prague Waltzes etc: Detroit SO, Dorati.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Paul Jeanjean

    Clair matin

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • Music for Clarinet and Piano: Bliss/Quentin.
    • EMI.

  • Giovanni Sgambati

    Symphony no 1 op 16 in D major iii Scherzo

    Conductor: Ola Rudner.
    • CPO.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Behold, I tell you a mystery; The trumpet shall sound (Messiah)

    Performer: Peter Franks. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Handel: Arias: Bryn Terfel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 19-20.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sonata for flute and piano, 1st movement; Allegro malinconico

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • Paris: Emmanuel Pahud/Eric Le Sage.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1-3.

  • Maddalena Laura Sirmen

    String Quartet no.2 in B flat major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Allegri String Quartet.
    • Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen - The Six String Quartets.
    • CALA.
    • 12.

  • William Sterndale Bennett

    Caprice in E major for piano and orchestra, Op 22

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Director: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Sterndale Bennett; Bache - Piano Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Trad.

    She moved through the fair

    Performer: Edin Karamoazov. Performer: Stacey Shames. Singer: Andreas Scholl.
    • DECCA.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sonata for flute and piano, 1st movement; Allegro malinconico

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • Paris: Emmanuel Pahud/Eric Le Sage.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1-3.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Serenata in vano FS.68

    Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.
    • Chamber Music for Horn.
    • Deux-Elles.
    • 10.

  • Time Traveller: Concert In The Catacombs

    Duration: 02:40

  • Richard Wagner

    The Flying Dutchman (Overture)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Wagner: Halle/Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle.
    • 3.

  • Claude Debussy

    Syrinx

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud.

  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Concertino, Op.107

    Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Orchestra: Residentie Orkest. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Great works for flute and orchestra.
    • BIS.
    • 007.

  • Anonymous

    Nobody's Jig; Mr Lane's Maggot; Black and Grey

    Ensemble: Les Witches.
    • Nobody's Jig.
    • Alpha.
    • 1.

  • Cultural Inspirations: Dame Felicity Lott on her love of Sussex

    Duration: 04:02

  • Richard Strauss

    Moonlight Music (Capriccio)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Hubert Parry

    Lady Radnor's Suite

    Conductor: Patrick Hawes. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Patrick Hawes, Highgrove Suite: Claire Jones, Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Classic FM.
    • 5.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G major BWV.577 'A la Gigue'

    Ensemble: Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Dora Peja膷evi膰

    Symphony in F sharp minor Op.41 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland鈥怭falz. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.
    • Dora Pejacevic Symphony.
    • CPO.
    • 3.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Miller's Dance (The Three-Cornered Hat)

    Orchestra: Orquesta Nacional de Espa帽a. Conductor: Rafael Fr眉hbeck de Burgos.
    • EMI.

  • Max Bruch

    Kol nidrei Op.47

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Decca.

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    8 Concert etudes Op.40 (no.7 'Intermezzo')

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • This & That: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Galton Concert Productions.
    • 3.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Les chemins de l'amour

    Singer: Felicity Lott. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Poulenc: Voyage a Paris: Felicity Lott/Graham Johnson.
    • Helios.
    • 30.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Concert waltz no. 1 in D major Op.47

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

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  • Wed 11 Jul 2018 09:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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