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Friday with Suzy Klein - Graham Fellows, Vending Machines, Sibelius's Andante Festivo

Suzy Klein with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, comedy actor and musician Graham Fellows.

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history.

1050 This week Suzy’s guest is the comedy actor and musician Graham Fellows, aka John Shuttleworth and “Jilted Johnâ€. He talks about some of the things that have inspired him throughout his life and career.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's contemplation

3 hours

Music and featured items

  • Luigi Boccherini

    La Ritirata di Madrid (Quintet for guitar and strings, G.453)

    Performer: Zoltán Tokos. Performer: György Éder. Ensemble: Danubius Quartet.
    • Music - Goya.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.
  • John Ireland

    Decorations (The Island Spell)

    Performer: Eric Parkin.
    • Ireland: Piano Works Vol. 1: Eric Parkin.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Symphony no.2 in G minor Op.34 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Lindberg.
    • Stenhammar: Symphony No. 2 & Ett drömspel.
    • BIS.
    • 3.
  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, Op 28

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • The best of Maxim Vengerov: Maxim Vengerov.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Andante festivo

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • BIS.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Ouverture jointe d'une suite tragi-comique

    Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Alissa Firsova

    Stabat Mater

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Spirit, Strength & Sorrow.
    • Coro.
    • 2.
  • John Field

    Piano Sonata No 4 in B major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Míċeál O'Rourke.
    • John Field: Four Piano Sonatas: Miceal O'Rourke.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Time Traveller: Spending A Penny by Matthew Sweet

    Duration: 02:32

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Khovanshchina (Prelude)

    Orchestrator: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • EMI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Flute Sonata in E flat major, BWV 1031

    Performer: Andrea Oliva. Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: Flute Sonatas: Andrea Oliva/Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1-3.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Preludio Sinfonico

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Jules Massenet

    Madrilene (Le Cid)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Massenet: Ballet Suites: Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 6.
  • Jules Massenet

    Navarraise (Le Cid - ballet suite)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Decca.
  • Cultural Inspirations: Graham Fellows on Orkney

    Duration: 04:08

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise

    Performer: Robert Jordan. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.
    • Peter Maxwell Davies - An Orkney Wedding With Sunrise and other works.
    • LINN.
    • 9.
  • Franz Schubert

    Am Feierabend, D 795 No 5 (Die schöne Müllerin)

    Performer: Justus Zeyen. Singer: Thomas Quasthoff.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet no.5 in E flat major Op.44`3 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concertino in E flat major, Op 26

    Performer: Alexander Fiterstein. Orchestra: San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. Conductor: Martin West.
    • BRIDGE.
  • Anthony Holborne

    The Image of Melancholy - pavan for 5 instruments

    Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
    • Bjarte Eike / Barokksolistene: The Image of Melancholy.
    • BIS.
    • 2.
  • Richard Strauss

    Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 8 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Boris Belkin. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Strauss: Violin Concerto: Belkin, Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in D major Wq.183`1

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Director: Jonathan Cohen.
    • HYPERION.

Broadcast

  • Fri 7 Sep 2018 09:00