
Monday with Suzy Klein - Flea circuses, Khachaturian's Waltz from Masquerade
Suzy Klein with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, comedy actor and musician Graham Fellows.
Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music, which today includes Beethoven's Octet, Mendelssohn's "Calm Sean and Prosperous Voyage" and the month of September as imagined by Tchaikovsky and Fanny Mendelssohn.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. What would make a companion piece to Khachaturian's brooding waltz from his "Masquerade" suite?
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history. Kate Romano takes a magnifying glass to the history of flea circuses.
1050 This week Suzy’s guest is the comedy actor and musician Graham Fellows, aka John Shuttleworth and “Jilted John”. He talks about some of the things that have inspired him throughout his life and career. Today he talks about a favourite book - Knut Hamsen’s "Hunger"
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's contemplation. Today a slow movement by Scriabin.
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Music and featured items
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Valse-Scherzo, Op.34
Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.- Pentatone.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite in C minor for lute, BWV 997: Prelude
Performer: Jakob Lindberg.- JS Bach: Lute Music.
- Bis.
- 13.
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George Enescu
Impromptu in A-Flat Major
Performer: Josu De Solaun.- Enescu: Complete Works for Solo Piano.
- Grand Piano.
- 801.
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George Frideric Handel
Sonata a 5 in B flat HWV.288
Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- Archiv.
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Aram Khachaturian
Masquerade Suite (Waltz)
Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin. -
Gerald Finzi
Romance for strings, Op 11
Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble. Director: Jonathan Morton.- WIGMORE HALL.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Exsultate, jubilate, K 165
Singer: Danielle de Niese. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- DECCA.
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Aram Khachaturian
Masquerade Suite (Waltz)
Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin.- Khachaturian: Masquerade Suite, The Comedians: Kondrashin.
- RCA.
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Robert Schumann
Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 105 (Arr. for Viola & Piano): I. Mit leidens
Performer: Mate Szucs. Performer: Michèle Gurdal. Ensemble: Berlin Chamber Duo.- Schumann & Franck: Violin Sonatas (Arr. for Viola & Piano).
- haenssler CLASSIC.
- 101.
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Claude Debussy
Danse bohèmienne for piano
Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.- Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
- Decca.
- 15.
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Time Traveller: Flea Circuses by Kate Romano
Duration: 02:31
Modest Mussorgsky
Song of the Flea
Singer: John Tomlinson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: David Parry.- Great Operatic Arias.
- Chandos.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- CHANDOS.
Dmitry Shostakovich
Waltz 2 (Suite no.2 for jazz band)
Orchestra: Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitry Yablonsky.- NAXOS.
Richard Rodgers
Carousel Waltz (Carousel)
Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.- American Light Music Classics.
- Hyperion.
- 22.
Fanny Mendelssohn
September (The Year)
Performer: Lauma Skride.- SONY.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
September 'The Hunt' (The Seasons)
Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.- Hyperion.
Cultural Inspirations: Graham Fellows on "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun
Duration: 03:46
Edvard Grieg
4 Norwegian Dances Op.35 (no.3)
Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Petri Sakari.- CHANDOS : CHAN-9028.
- CHANDOS.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Wind Octet in E flat major, Op 103
Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Reiner Wehle. Performer: Diethelm Jonas. Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Performer: Dag Jensen. Performer: Georg Klütsch. Performer: Klaus Lohrer. Performer: Bruno Schneider. Performer: Niklaus Frisch. Ensemble: Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer.- Beethoven: Octet etc.: Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble.
- EMI.
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Franz Schubert
An die Musik D.547
Music Arranger: Max Reger. Singer: Thomas Quasthoff. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra: Von Otter, Quasthoff, Abbado.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 18.
Gustav Holst
Walt Whitman - overture Op.7
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.- Holst: Cotswolds Symphony.
- Naxos.
Alexander Scriabin
Piano Concerto in F sharp minor Op.20 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.- Lawo.
Henry Purcell
Oedipus, King of Thebes, Z. 583/2: "Music for a while"
Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Orchestra: L’Arpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.- Music for a While - Improvisations on Purcell.
- Erato/Warner Classics.
- 102.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Crabapple and Sloewine (Much Ado about Nothing Suite)
Conductor: André Previn. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.- Korngold: Orchestral Works: London Symphony Orchestra/Previn.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet No 3 in C minor, Op 60 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Trio Wanderer.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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