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Thursday with Suzy Klein - Gaelic poets, Dame Felicity Lott, Debussy

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.

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Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today, we kick-off with Debussy's take on Watteau: L'isle joyeuse

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Time Traveller - a quirky slice of cultural history. Peter Mackay explores what inspired the Gaelic poets.

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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 shares her love for the Italian-born French singer and actor Serge Reggiani.

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Thu 12 Jul 2018 09:00
蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Music and featured items

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    The Gadfly Suite Op.97a (Galop)

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Shostakovich: Film Music Vol.2: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic/Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

  • Robert Schumann

    String Quartet in A minor, Op 41 No 1 - 4th movement, Vivace

    Ensemble: Elias String Quartet.
    • Elias String Quartet - Haydn/Schumann.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • 8.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Marksmen (3 Bavarian Dances)

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Dutton.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in C major, RV 190

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Performer: Andrea Marcon. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • Vivaldi: Concertos - Carmignola/Venice Baroque Orchestra/Marcon.
    • DG.
    • 4.

  • Claude Debussy

    L'isle joyeuse

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • Images / 2 Arabesques / L'Isle Joyeuse / Berceuse H茅ro茂que.
    • Philips Classics.
    • 8.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Cos矛 fan tutte (Overture)

    Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Sony.

  • Imogen Holst

    The Fall of the Leaf

    Performer: Thomas Hewitt Jones.
    • Court Lane Music.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • Utopia Triumphans.
    • Sony.
    • 1.

  • Libby Larsen

    Deep Summer Music

    Orchestra: Colorado Symphony. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • KOCH.

  • Time Traveller: Poetic Inspiration

    Duration: 01:47

  • Traditional Scottish

    McIntosh's Lament

    Performer: Bonnie Rideout.
    • Soft May Morn.
    • Maggie鈥檚 Music.
    • 16.

  • Traditional Scottish

    Robh thu 'sa' bheinn? ('Were you in the mountains')

    Singer: Singers from the Isle of Barra.
    • Waulking Songs from Barra.
    • Greentrax Recordings.
    • 1.

  • Ronald Stevenson

    Quartet - Voces vagabundae: ii) Volante

    Ensemble: Martin暖 Quartet.
    • Arco Diva.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No 1 in D major, Op 25, 'Classical'

    Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Prokofiev: Symphonies 1-7: London Symphony Orchestra/Gergiev.
    • Decca.
    • 1-4.

  • Francis Poulenc

    L'embarquement pour Cyth猫re

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que.
    • Philips.

  • John Ireland

    Decorations (The Island Spell)

    Performer: Eric Parkin.
    • Ireland: Piano Works Vol. 1: Eric Parkin.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Villanelle (Les nuits d'茅t茅)

    Singer: R茅gine Crespin. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
    • Berlioz: Les nuits d'ete: R茅gine Crespin.
    • Decca.

  • Franz Schubert

    Sonata in A minor "Arpeggione"; iii.Allegretto

    Performer: Nobuko Imai. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata etc..
    • CHANDOS.
    • 3.

  • Cultural Inspirations: Dame Felicity Lott on her love of French Chanson

    Duration: 04:16

  • Georges Moustaki

    Sarah

    Singer: Serge Reggiani.
    • Because.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Sonata for Strings No. 1 in G Major

    Performer: Minna Pensola. Performer: Antti Tikkanen. Performer: Tuomas Lehto. Performer: Niek de Groot.
    • Rossini: Sonatas for Strings Nos. 1-3 - Hoffmeister: Double Bass Quartets Nos. 1.
    • BIS.
    • 1-3.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Murder on the Orient Express: The Orient Express

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Marcus Dods.
    • CLOUD NINE.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Polonaise in A flat major Op.53 'Eroica'

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Chopin: 26 Preludes Scherzo NR. 2 - Martha Argerich.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 28.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    String Quartet No 6 in G major, Op 101 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: 袗谢谢邪 袥褜胁芯胁薪邪 袗褉邪薪芯胁褋泻邪褟. Performer: Ilya Teplyakov. Performer: Konstantin Kats. Performer: Leonid Shukaev. Ensemble: St. Petersburg String Quartet.
    • Shostakovich: St Petersburg String Quartet: Alla Aranovskaya, Ilya Teplyakov....
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Christian Sinding

    Suite for violin and orchestra in A minor

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • EMI.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet antique

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Erato.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite: Minuetto & Finale

    Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein.
    • MDG.

Broadcast

  • Thu 12 Jul 2018 09:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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