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Friday with Suzy Klein - painting Chopin, Dame Diana Rigg, Elgar's Cockaigne overture

Suzy Klein brings the best in classical music, and chats to Dame Diana Rigg about the things that have inspired her over the years.

Essential Classics with Suzy Klein

Suzy Klein takes us through the morning with the best in classical music.

0930 Suzy wants your recommendations for anyone who loves Elgar's Cockaigne overture - the composer's vibrant and majestic tribute to the hustle and bustle of Edwardian London - and wants to explore music in a similar vein.

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1050 Throughout the week we're hearing from Dame Diana Rigg, most recently on our screens in "Game of Thrones" and "Victoria", talking about the cultural icons that have inspired her over the years.

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.29 'Wir danken dir, Gott' (Sinfonia)

    Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Five English Folk-Songs: Just as the Tide was Flowing

    Choir: The Finzi Singers. Director: Paul Spicer.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No.26 in D, K537 "Coronation" - 3rd mvt: Allegretto

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Linn.

  • William Lawes

    Consort Sett a 6 in F major "Sunrise" (Fantazy)

    Ensemble: Fretwork. Performer: Paul Nicholson.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.

  • BΓ©la BartΓ³k

    Romanian Folk Dances

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Florent Boffard.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cockaigne (In London Town) - Overture

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

  • CΓ©cile Chaminade

    L' Ondine [The Water sprite] Op.101

    Performer: Peter Jacobs.
    • Chaminade: Piano Music - 1, Peter Jacobs.
    • Helios.
    • 6.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D major RV.549

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • L'Estro Armonico.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
    • 1-3.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue in F major Op.10

    Performer: Tom Poster. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 17.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Ballade no.1 in G minor Op.23

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Da tempeste il legno infranto (from Giulio Cesare)

    Performer: Joyce DiDonato. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro. Director: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • ERATO.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 104 in D major, 'London' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 12.

  • Nigel Hess

    Thames Journey

    Orchestra: London Symphonic Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Nigel Hess.
    • East Coast Pictures - The Wind Band Music of Nigel Hess.
    • Fly.
    • 1.

  • Gustav Holst

    Hymn to the Dawn (Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op.26'3)

    Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Performer: Jiaxin Lloyd Webber. Performer: Guy Johnston. Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Catrin Finch.
    • NAXOS.

  • Aaron Copland

    Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo

    Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony.
    • Copland the Populist: Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 1.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    La Cenerentola (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Rossini: Overtures: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 63 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • ONYX.

  • Franz Schubert

    Trio [in one movement] in B flat, D.28

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the dance

    Orchestrator: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.

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