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Wednesday with Suzy Klein - Sebastian Faulks, JS Bach's Cantata 140 Wachet auf, Florence Price's Symphony in E minor

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. Today we are featuring J S Bach's opening chorus from Wachet auf, BWV 140

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

1050 Suzy’s guest this week is the novelist, journalist and broadcaster Sebastian Faulks, who’ll 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.

Other music in the programme includes Heino Eller's evocation of Dawn, the slow movement of Korngold's violin concerto and a new release of piano music by Debussy played by Javier Perianes.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Heino Eller

    Dawn

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Music From Estonia.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 007.
  • Johann Theile

    Sonata duplex a 3

    Performer: Domitille Gilon. Performer: Thomas Soltani. Ensemble: Stravaganza.
    • Abendmusiken [Buxtehude, Erlebach, Reinken, Theile].
    • MUSO.
    • 1.
  • Claude Debussy

    Estampes ii: La Soiree dans Grenade

    Performer: Javier Perianes.
    • Debussy: Préludes du 1er Livre.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 14.
  • Samuel Scheidt

    Galliarda battaglia à 5

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
  • Charles Gounod

    Valse (Faust)

    Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Barcarole - Favourite Orchestral Pieces.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 14.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Cantata no.140)

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: Cantatas 52: Bach Collegium Japan/Suzuki.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Leos JanáÄek

    Jealousy

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Overture in C minor, D 8a

    Ensemble: Escher String Quartet.
    • MUSIC@MENLOLIVE.
  • Richard Strauss

    Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op.28

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • REFERENCE RECORDINGS.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony in E minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: New Black Music Repertory Ensemble. Conductor: Leslie B.Dunner.
    • Albany Records.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • DG.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Silken Ladder (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Rossini: Overtures: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Michael Nyman

    Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (The Draughtman's Contract)

    Ensemble: Michael Nyman Band. Director: Michael Nyman.
    • CHARISMA.
  • James MacMillan

    O Radiant Dawn

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen (Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Albumblatt in D flat major

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Tine Thing Helseth, Kathryn Stott: Puccini, Falla, Hindemith, Rachmninov, Kreisl.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.
  • William Cornysh

    Ave Maria mater Dei à 4

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • An Eternal Harmony.
    • Coro.
    • 9.
  • Claude Debussy

    Noel des enfants qui n'ont plus de maison

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Singer: Véronique Gens.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Johann Christian Bach

    Symphony for wind instruments no.1 in E flat major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • J.C. Bach: Wind Symphonies: Consortium Classicum.
    • MDG.
    • 1.
  • Béla Bartók

    Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste (Andante tranquillo)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • RCA.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Masques et bergamasques

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Gaffigan.
    • Warner.
  • Franz Schubert

    Erlkönig D.328

    Singer: Matthias Goerne. Performer: Andreas Haeifliger.
    • Schubert Lieder Volume 7: Erlkönig.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet No 21 in D major, K 575 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Mozart: String Quartets KV 421 & 575.
    • DG.
    • 5.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Prague Waltzes

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Dvorak: Legends: Prague Waltzes: Buadapest festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer.
    • Phillips.
    • 16.

Broadcast

  • Wed 5 Dec 2018 09:00

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