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Thursday with Suzy Klein - Glyndebourne, Sebastian Faulks, Gorecki's Third Symphony

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Suzy Klein's guest is novelist Sebastian Faulks.

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Our Classical Century - 100 pieces celebrating 100 key moments in classical music in the last century. bbc.co.uk/ourclassicalcentury

1050 Suzy鈥檚 guest this week is the novelist, journalist and broadcaster Sebastian Faulks, who鈥檒l be talking about the people, places and ideas that mean the most to him.

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

3 hours

Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Symphonic Dances Op.64 (no.3)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Grieg: Complete Music with Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Fantaisie Op.79

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • ALPHA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no. 40 (K.550) in G minor, 4th movement; Allegro assai

    Ensemble: Ensemble Appassionato. Conductor: Mathieu Herzog.
    • NAIVE.
  • Robert Schumann

    12 Poems of Justinus Kerner Op.35 (Wanderlied)

    Singer: Christian Gerhaher. Performer: Gerold Huber.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto grosso in F major, Op 1 No 7

    Orchestra: Raglan Baroque Players. Director: Nicholas Kraemer.
    • Hyperion.
  • Henryk Miko艂aj G贸recki

    Symphony No 3, 'Sorrowful Songs' (2nd mvt)

    Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • ELEKTRA NONESUCH.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Les langueurs-tendres (Pi猫ces de clavecin, Ordre No 6)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Couperin: Keyboard Music 1: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Concerto in E flat major, 'Dumbarton Oaks'

    Orchestra: Z眉rcher Kammerorchester. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • SONY.
  • Richard Wagner

    Liebestod (Tristan & Isolde)

    Singer: Anja Kampe. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Glyndebourne.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Rake's Progress - Epilogue

    Singer: Deborah York. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: Ian Bostridge. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Alban Berg

    Adagio (Symphonic Pieces from Lulu, No 5)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Marriage of Figaro - Overture

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.
    • 成人快手.
  • Gaspar Cassad贸

    Requiebros

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: Rina Dokshinsky.
    • Music for Cello and Piano: Alban Gerhardt.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 15.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G minor RV.156

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • NAIVE.
  • Ilse Weber

    Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Bebe Risenfors.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Jean Sibelius

    The Swan of Tuonela (Leminkainen Suite, Op 22)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Graham Fitkin

    Flak

    Performer: Eleanor Alberga. Performer: Graham Fitkin. Performer: Shelagh Sutherland. Performer: Errollyn Wallen.
    • Flak.
    • Factory Records.
    • 004.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Quartet no. 2 in E flat major Op.87 for piano and strings: 2nd mvt; Lento

    Ensemble: Schubert Ensemble.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Ruy Blas - Overture Op.95

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in A major, Op.118 no.2

    Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • Brahms: Handel Variations - Amanuel Ax, Piano.
    • Sony.
    • 29.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Violin Concerto in D minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth.
    • Onyx.
  • Francesca Caccini

    Io veggio i campi verdeggiar fecondi

    Performer: Amanda Keesmaat. Performer: Sylvain Bergeron.
    • Francesca Caccini: O Viva Rosa.
    • Analekta.
    • 4.
  • Erik Esenvalds

    Rivers of light

    Ensemble: Trinity College Choir. Director: Stephen Layton.
    • Northern Lights.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.

Broadcast

  • Thu 6 Dec 2018 09:00

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