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Monday with Suzy Klein - Evelyn Glennie, Talking Dogs, Mozart's Queen of the Night

Suzy Klein with the best in classical music. Plus Dame Evelyn Glennie reveals 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 the virtuoso percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie reveals the cultural influences that have inspired and shaped her life and career.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Padre Antonio Soler

    Keyboard Sonata no.90 in F sharp minor

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's Spanish Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)

    Ensemble: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • France-Espagne.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.
    • 9.
  • William Byrd

    O Quam Gloriosum

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Director: Stephen Cleobury.
    • King's College.
  • Alun Hoddinott

    Folk-song suite for small orchestra

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Welsh Classical Favourites: Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Penny.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 5-8.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Der H枚lle Rache (The Magic Flute)

    Singer: Anna-Kristiina Kappola. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs. Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Mozart - Die Zauberflote - Rene Jacobs.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 11.
  • Johannes Brahms

    4 Ballades Op.10 (no.2 in D major)

    Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Traditional Sephardic

    El amor yo no sabia

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Dimitrie Cantemir, Istanbul "The Book of the Science of Music...": Hesperion XXI.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 9.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Sextet in A major, Op.48 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Veronika Hagen. Performer: Gary Hoffman. Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Dvorak: String Quintet, Op. 97 & String Sextet, Op. 48.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.
  • Michael Daugherty

    UFO for percussion and orchestra - V. Objects

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: Colorado Symphony. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Naxos.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.42 'Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats' (Sinfonia)

    Ensemble: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.
    • DHM.
  • George Gershwin

    Walking the Dog (Shall we Dance)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Performer: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Gershwin: The 1920s & 1930s: Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS Masterworks.
    • 8.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125, 'Choral' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Beethoven: 9 Symphonies: Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Disprezzata Regina (Octavia's Lament)

    Singer: Janet Baker.
    • Testament.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Evocaci贸n (Iberia Book 1)

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Lang Lang - Live in Vienna.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no.1 'Afro-American' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Ney Rosauro

    Concerto for marimba and strings (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Rebounds Concertos for Percussion.
    • RCA.
    • 8.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A minor for 2 violins RV.523

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • Vivaldi: Double Concertos: Mullova, Carmignola, Marcon.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 16-18.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Blessed is the man (Vespers, Op.37)

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards K募ava.
    • ONDINE.
  • Madeleine Dring

    Tarantelle

    Performer: Leigh Kaplan. Performer: Robin Paterson.
    • Leigh Kaplan plays Madeleine Dring.
    • Cambria.
    • 16.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Overture)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne in C sharp minor

    Performer: Midori. Performer: Robert Macdonald.
    • Midori: Live at Carnegie Hall.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto No 2 in F major, Op 102

    Performer: Denis Matsuev. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • MARIINSKY.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Pulchrae sunt genae tuae

    Choir: The King鈥檚 Singers.

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