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Thursday with Suzy Klein - Mendelssohn Octet, Beauty regimes, Sakari Oramo

Suzy Klein with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, conductor Sakari Oramo

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music, including Stravinsky's Scherzo fantastique, a new release of secular cantatas by JS Bach and Nadia Boulanger's 3 pieces for cello and piano.

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today we are featuring the scherzo from Mendelssohn's Octet.

1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history. Today Matthew Sweet talks about Victorian beauty regimes.

1050 This week our guest is Sakari Oramo, the Chief Conductor of the 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra. He talks about some of the places, people and ideas that have inspired him throughout his life and career.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's contemplation.

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Thu 20 Sep 2018 09:00
成人快手 Radio 3

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Music and featured items

  • Carl Nielsen

    Saul and David (Act 2, Prelude)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Carl Nielsen: Orchestral music: Danish National Symphony Orch/Dausgaard.
    • Dacapo.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Romance; Toccata (Six Characteristic Pieces, Op 132)

    Performer: Peter Jacobs.
    • Piano Music of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford Volume 1.
    • Priory.
    • 29-30.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Angenehmes Wiederau, BWV 30a: No. 5, Was die Seele kann erg枚tzen

    Singer: Robin Blaze. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 10.
    • BIS.
    • 5.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Sinfonia Concertante in B flat major, H.I.105 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Marieke Blankestijn. Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Douglas Boyd. Performer: Matthew Wilkie. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Haydn: Cello Concertos: Isserlis/Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Norrington.
    • RCA.
    • 10.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Wonderful Town: No. 1, Overture

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Bernstein: Wonderful Town.
    • Lso Live.
    • 1.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Octet in E flat major Op.20 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra.
    • BIS.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Suite no.2 Op.17 (Romance)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Philips.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Romanian Folk Dances

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra etc: Sakari Oramo.
    • Warner.
    • 9.

  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    Ave Maria 脿 4

    Director: Peter Phillips. Choir: Tallis Scholars.
    • Christmas Carols and Motets.
    • Gimell.
    • 10.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Scherzo capriccioso, Op 66

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Dvorak: Symphonic Variations etc: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Mackerras.
    • Supraphon.
    • 2.

  • Time Traveller: Victorian Makeup by Matthew Sweet

    Duration: 02:38

  • Carl Nielsen

    Oriental Festive March; Aladdin's Dream and Dance of the Morning Mist (Aladdin Op.34)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • DECCA.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Spring, Op.34

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

  • Nadia Boulanger

    3 Pieces

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Performer: Jos茅 Gallardo.
    • French Cello Sonatas.
    • Naxos.
    • 2-4.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    September (The Year)

    Performer: Lauma Skride.
    • SONY.

  • Juan Cris贸stomo de Arriaga

    Los esclavos felices (Overture)

    Conductor: Charles Mackerras. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Arriaga/Vorisek: Symphonies: Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Mackerras.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat major Op.34 no.1

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin - The Complete Waltzes.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Ivor Gurney

    Sleep (Five Elizabethan Songs)

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Bryn Terfel.
    • Bryn Terfel: Silent Noon - English Songs.
    • DG.
    • 4.

  • Cultural Inspirations: Sakari Oramo on the benefits of sleep

    Duration: 03:39

  • Edward Elgar

    Sospiri Op.70

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Bis.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture in C major TWV.55:C3 'Hamburger Ebbe und Fluth'

    Ensemble: Zefiro.
    • Ambroisie.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Scherzo Fantastique, Op.3

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op.20`4 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.
    • Haydn: 6 Popular Quartets.
    • ASV.
    • 4.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Little Suite for Brass Band no.1 Op.80

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Elgar Howarth.
    • SONY.

  • William Byrd

    Visita quaesumus, Domine for 4 voices

    Choir: The Cardinall鈥檚 Musick. Director: Andrew Carwood.
    • William Byrd: Infelix ego The Cardinall's Musick.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major D.485 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Schubert: Symphonies No. 5 & 6: Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Zinman.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Thu 20 Sep 2018 09:00
    成人快手 Radio 3

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