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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: Tuesday - Sarah Walker

Tuesday - Sarah Walker

08/11/2011

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Sarah Walker presents music by Avison, Gershwin, Ravel and Mendelssohn.

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Avison's 12 Concerti grossi after Scarlatti. Katia and Marielle Labeque in Berio and Gershwin. Essential Choice: Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Avison's 12 Concerti Grossi after Scarlatti, performed by the Avison Ensemble: DIVINE ART DDA21213

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the French piano duo - sisters Katia and Marielle Labeque - in Berio (Waltz) and Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue). 

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is Professor Tom Wright, a leading New Testament Scholar and former Bishop of Durham. Today he introduces music that he finds particularly moving and a work he remembers being performed by a conductor he admires.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Mendelssohn
Octet for Strings
Academy Chamber Ensemble
Iona Brown (director)
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