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Wednesday with Suzy Klein - Stravinsky's Firebird, Swan Lake, Bridget Kendall

Suzy Klein presents potential companion pieces for Stravinsky's Firebird, and journalist Bridget Kendall lists her cultural inspirations and influences.

Essential Classics with Suzy Klein

Suzy takes us through the morning with the best in classical music:

0930 Suzy explores potential companion pieces for Stravinsky's Firebird. What would you play to follow the finale of this sparkling life affirming orchestral showpiece?

1010 Time Traveller.
As part of Radio 3's "Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture", Tom Service went to Russia to explore works of art which tell the story of the hundred years since the Russian Revolution. Today he talks to the dancer and ballet expert Olga Rosanova about Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake

1050 Bridget Kendall, who as the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's Moscow correspondent reported on the the break-up of the Soviet Union, talks about the ideas that have inspired and shaped her throughout her life. Today she explains why she loves the Moscow Metro.

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Così fan tutte (Overture)

    Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.

  • Alfred Schnittke

    Suite in the Old Style - Minuet

    Performer: Olga Martynova. Performer: Andrey Doynikov. Performer: Dmitri Vlassik.
    • Alfred Schnittke: Works for Violin and Piano.
    • Quartz.
    • 3.

  • Alfred Schnittke

    Fugue (Suite in the Old Style)

    Performer: Olga Martynova. Performer: Andrey Doynikov. Performer: Dmitri Vlassik. Performer: Roman Mints.
    • Alfred Schnittke - Roman Mints / Katya Apekisheva.
    • QUARTZ.
    • 4.

  • Claude Debussy

    Piano Trio in G Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou. Performer: Edgar Moreau. Performer: Renaud Capuçon.
    • Debussy: Sonatas and Piano Trio.
    • Erato.
    • 11.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Sonata TWV 42:d10 for recorder, violins and continuo

    Ensemble: Musica Alta Ripa.
    • MDG.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird Suite

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: IvΓ‘n Fischer.
    • Channel.

  • TomΓ‘s Luis de Victoria

    Alma Redemptoris mater Γ  8

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Victoria: Devotion to Our Lady: The Sixteen/Harry Christophers.
    • Collins Classics.
    • 9.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    2 Nocturnes for piano (Op.48), no.1 in C minor

    Performer: CΓ©dric Tiberghien.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Concerto in D Major, K. 314 (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra): I. Allegro apert

    Orchestra: l’arte del mondo. Conductor: Werner Ehrhardt.
    • Cello Reimagined.
    • Orfeo.
    • 8.

  • Γ‰lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Violin Sonata no.2 in D major

    Performer: Riccardo Minasi. Ensemble: Bizzarrie Armoniche.
    • ±·΄‘Ï³Υ·‘.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.5 in E flat major Op.82 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: John StorgΓ₯rds.
    • Sibelius: Complete Symphonies/Three Late Fragments.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 7.

  • Claude Debussy

    La cathΓ©drale engloutie (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 10.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Foxtrot (Suite for Jazz Band no.1)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Arnold Bax

    Elegiac Trio

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.

  • Johan Halvorsen

    Six Norwegian Dances; No 1

    Performer: Henning Kraggerud. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset. Orchestra: Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra.
    • Norwegian Violin Favourites.
    • Naxos.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Vergnugte Ruh', beliebte Seelenlust (Aria) - from Cantata no.170

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • Erato.

  • John Adams

    Grand Pianola Music (Part II 'On the dominant divide')

    Performer: Orli Shaham. Performer: Marc-AndrΓ© Hamelin. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • John Adams: Absolute Jest / Grand Pianola Music.
    • San Francisco Symphony.
    • 9.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in E flat major, Op 117 No 1, 'Schlummerlied'

    Performer: Nicholas Angelich.
    • Brahms: Klavierstucke Op.116-119: Nicholas Angelich.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 1.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Ardo, avvampo (Madrigals, Book 8)

    Orchestra: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • Monteverdi: Fire & Ashes: I Fagiolini.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony no.1 in D major 'Classical'

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quintet in B flat major, Op 87 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Tree. Ensemble: Guarneri Quartet.
    • RCA.

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  • Wed 8 Nov 2017 09:00
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