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Essential Classics

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

Essential Classics: Thursday - Sarah Walker

Thursday - Sarah Walker

20/10/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Thursday - Sarah Walkersearch

Sarah Walker presents music by Tchaikovsky, Schubert and Krommer.

With Sarah Walker. 9.00am Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (excerpt). 9.30am Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. Krommer: Clarinet Concerto in E flat. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto.

9am
Sarah Walker's choices today include a selection from Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and the Artist of the Week the clarinettist Jack Brymer: Schubert (Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965); and Krommer (Clarinet Concerto in E flat major). Also in this hour, Saint-Saens's Phaeton performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra under Charles Dutoit.

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is Simon Jenkins, the journalist, author and former editor of The Times and the Evening Standard, who is also chairman of the National Trust. Today he introduces a piece that he would like to play himself and a piece that he would like to conduct.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto.
Kyung Wha Chung (violin),
London Symphony Orchestra,
Andre Previn (conductor).
DECCA 425 080 2.

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