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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: Wednesday - Sarah Walker

Wednesday - Sarah Walker

04/01/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Wednesday - Sarah Walker

Sarah Walker presents music by Mendelssohn, Holloway, Schubert, Ravel and Bartok.

With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: Nash Ensemble in Holloway: Serenade in C. Schubert: Octet. Ravel: Introduction and Allegro; Essential Choice: Bartok: Dance Suite.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Mendelssohn Overtures: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado. DG 423 104-2.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artists of the Week, the Nash Ensemble. Today we him them in a pair of twentieth-century works: Holloway's Serenade in C op.41, commissioned by the Nash Ensemble in 1978 and scored for the same instrumentation as the Schubert Octet; and Ravel's Introduction and Allegro, written for the unorthodox combination of harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is actor and director Philip Franks, well known for his performances on stage and screen, including The Darling Buds of May, Heartbeat, Bleak House and numerous leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Today Philip mentions the first classical record he bought himself, and discusses a piece that he finds particularly moving

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Bartok
Dance Suite
London Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor)
DECCA 425039.

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