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Thursday with Suzy - Joshua Bell, Electricity Pylons, Widor's Toccata

Suzy Klein presents potential companion pieces for a popular piece of music, and violinist and conductor Joshua Bell reveals his cultural inspirations and influences.

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.
0930 Your ideas for potential companion pieces for a well-known piece of music.
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history.
1050 The conductor and virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell talks about the things that have inspired him throughout his life and career.

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Thu 25 Jan 2018 09:00
麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Niels Wilhelm Gade

    Scottish Overture, Op 7, 'In the Highlands'

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Wonderful Town (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Charlie Harmon. Orchestra: S茫o Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Bernstein: Marin Alsop's Complete Naxos Recordings.
    • Naxos.
    • 1611.

  • Franz Liszt

    2 Concert studies S.145 for piano

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • Transcendental - Daniil Trifonov plays Franz Liszt.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 001.

  • Charles鈥怣arie Widor

    Toccata (Organ Symphony No 5 in F minor)

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • Widor/Vierne: Symphony no.5/Carillon de Westminster: Simon Preston.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Franz Schubert

    Konzertst眉ck in D major, D 345

    Performer: Andreas Janke. Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Schubert: Symphony no. 7 Unfinished Tonhalle Orchestra - Zinman.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 5.

  • Marcel Tournier

    Suite for flute, string trio and harp, Op.34

    Ensemble: Mirage Quintet.
    • NAXOS.

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Cantique des degr茅s

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Kristjan J盲rvi.
    • Sony.

  • Time Traveller : Kate Romano on Electricity Pylons

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sinfonia in B flat major, BWV 800; Sinfonia in B minor, BWV 801

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Torleif Thed茅en.
    • DECCA.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.108 in B flat major

    Orchestra: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra. Conductor: 8 Bit.
    • Nimbus.

  • Louis James Alfred Lef茅bure鈥怶茅ly

    Sortie in E flat major (L'Orgue moderne, Bk.11)

    Performer: David Sanger.
    • Lefebure-Wely Organ Music played by David Sanger.
    • MERIDIAN.
    • 8.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Wedding March (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op 61)

    Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs鈥惷塴ys茅es. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream: Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7.

  • Alexandre Guilmant

    March on Handel's 'Lift up your heads', Op 15

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • The World of The Organ, Simon Preston.
    • Decca.
    • 11.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Cello Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kristina Blaumane. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Conductor: Maxim Rysanov. Conductor: Maxim Rysanov.
    • ECM New Series.

  • Joshua Bell on working with composer and bass player Edgar Meyer

  • Edgar Meyer

    BT

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Mike Marshall. Performer: Sam Bush. Singer: Edgar Meyer.
    • Sony.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Concert Fantasia in G major, Op 56 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • Tchaikovsky; The Three Piano Concertos, Concert Fantasia.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Welcome as the dawn of day (Solomon)

    Singer: Rosemary Joshua. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Harry Bicket.
    • Handel Duets: The English Concert.
    • Chaconne.
    • 3.

  • Josef Myslivecek

    Overture in A major

    Ensemble: Concerto K枚ln. Director: Werner Ehrhardt.
    • Archiv.

  • Traditional Scottish

    My love is like a red, red rose

    Author: Robert Burns. Music Arranger: Craig Leon. Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Andreas Scholl - Wayfaring Stranger; Folksongs.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (3rd mvt, Minuet)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • John Dowland

    Mistress Winter's Jumps

    Ensemble: ExTempore.
    • HYPERION.

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  • Thu 25 Jan 2018 09:00
    麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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