Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Drake's Drum by Stanford, Colin Matthews's Pluto, Kirsty Wark
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music presented by Suzy Klein. Our guest this week is presenter, journalist and novelist Kirsty Wark.
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 key moments in the last century of classical music.
1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, presenter, journalist and novelist Kirsty Wark.
1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Pirogov, Op 76a (Waltz)
Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. Conductor: Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich.- MELODIYA.
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Edwin York Bowen
The Way to Polden
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.- Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
- Hyperion.
- 15.
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Samuel Barber
Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 8, The Monk and His Cat
Performer: Bradley Moore. Singer: Melody Moore.- An American Song Album.
- PENTATONE.
- 108.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony no.41 in C major, K.551 'Jupiter' (4th mvt)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Mozart: Symphonien No. 40 & No. 41 禄Jupiter芦: Abbado/LSO.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Steve Reich
Duet
Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simos Papanas. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel.- My Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin.
- DG.
- 5.
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Charles Villiers Stanford
Drake's Drum (Songs of the Sea, Op 91)
Singer: Gerald Finley. Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Choir: 成人快手 National Chorus of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Stanford: Orchestral Songs.
- Chandos.
- 12.
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Franz Schubert
Piano Trio in E flat major, D 929 (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.- Philips.
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Edward Elgar
Cockaigne (In London Town), Op. 40
Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.- Halle.
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Peter Sculthorpe
Maranoa Lullaby
Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.- Sculthorpe: String Quartets.
- Challenge Classics.
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Charles Villiers Stanford
Drake's Drum (Songs of the Sea, Op 91)
Singer: Gerald Finley. Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Choir: 成人快手 National Chorus of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Stanford: Orchestral Songs.
- Chandos.
- 12.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV.359
Performer: Rachel Podger. Orchestra: Holland Baroque Society.- Holland Baroque Society Meets Rachel Podger - Antonio Vivaldi: La Cetra.
- Channel Classics.
- 13-15.
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Gustav Holst
The Planets - suite (Op.32); Mercury, The Winged Messenger
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.- LPO LIve.
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Gustav Holst
The Planets - suite (Op.32), Mars, the bringer of war
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- I.M.P. Classics.
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Gustav Holst
The Planets - suite (Op.32); Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.- LPO LIve.
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Gustav Holst
The Planets - suite (Op.32), Saturn, the bringer of old age
Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- Chandos.
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Gustav Holst
The Planets - suite (Op.32); Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.- LPO LIve.
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Colin Matthews
Pluto
Orchestra: 成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles. Choir: Edinburgh Festival Chorus. -
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William Herschel
Symphony No 12 in D major (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.- Herschel: Symphonies: London Mozart Players, Bamert.
- Chandos.
- 12.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Impromptu in G flat major, Op 51
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes and Impromptus: Angela Hewitt, piano.
- Hyperion.
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Granville Bantock
The Sea Reivers (2 Hebridean Sea Poems)
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- Bantock: Celtic & Hebridean Symphonies/ The Witch of Atlas.
- HYPERION.
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Charles Dibdin
Tom Bowling
Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside.- Naxos.
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Percy Grainger
Shallow Brown
Singer: John Shirley鈥怮uirk. Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.- London.
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Edvard Grieg
Violin Concerto No 2 in G major, Op 13 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Henning Kraggerud. Orchestrator: Henning Kraggerud. Orchestrator: Bernt Simen Lund. Orchestra: Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra.- Grieg: Three Concerti for Violin and Orchestra.
- NAXOS.
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Traditional Scottish
The Atholl Highlanders
Ensemble: Helicon.- Helicon: The Titan.
- Dorian.
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Jonathan Dove
Airport Scenes : Orchestral suite from the opera "Flight"
Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Timothy Redmond.- Orchid Classics.
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Franz Liszt
Les jeux d'eaux 脿 la Villa d'Este (3me Ann茅es de p猫lerinage)
Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.- Liszt: Annees de Pelerinage: Bertrand Chamayou.
- Naive.
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Georges Bizet
Danse Boh猫me (Carmen Suite no.2)
Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.- The Best of Bizet.
- Philips.
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Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov
Sextet op.63 iii Nocturne
Performer: Leon Bosch. Performer: John Thwaites. Ensemble: Dante Quartet.- Dutton.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 98 in B flat major (3rd mvt)
Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.- Haydn: The London Symphonies: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Davis.
- Philips.
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John Ireland
Sea fever
Singer: Jonathan Lemalu. Performer: Roger Vignoles.- EMI.
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Albert Roussel
Divertissement Op.6
Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.- WARNER.
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