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Essential Classics

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Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Georgia Mann.

Essential Classics: Thursday - Sarah Walker

Thursday - Sarah Walker

13/10/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Thursday - Sarah Walkersearch

Sarah Walker presents music including Howells, Bach, Chopin and Prokofiev.

With Sarah Walker. Including Holst's Beni Mora from the Essential CD of the Week. 9.30am Artist of the Week: The Sixteen: Howells: Like as the Hart. Bach: Cantata, BWV34.

A selection of must-hear music including Holst's Beni Mora from the Essential CD of the Week: a recording of Holst's orchestral works with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by David Lloyd-Jones.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and the Artist of the Week the choir The Sixteen: Howells (Like as the Hart); Bach (Cantata BWV 34, O ewiges Feuer, O Ursprung der Liebe); Tallis (Spem in Alium). Also in this hour, Chopin's Scherzo no.4 in E, Op.54, performed by Benjamin Grosvenor.

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is David Starkey, the historian. Today he introduces a piece that he finds particularly moving and the music he uses to relax to.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Act 1 (complete).
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor).
LSO 0682.

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