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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 - Rob Cowan

Thursday - Rob Cowan

17/05/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Thursday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Mozart: Coronation Mass.

With Rob Cowan. 9.30am Artist of the Week: Bernard Haitink. 10.30am Novelist Salley Vickers's favourite classical music. 11.00am Rob's Essential Choice: Mozart: Coronation Mass.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Vienna - Fritz Reiner conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in waltzes. RCA 09026 68160-2

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, Bernard Haitink.

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest for the week is novelist Salley Vickers, whose books explore the impact of spiritual values on contemporary lives. Salley introduces her essential pieces of classical music.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

Mozart
Coronation Mass, K.317 
Maria Stader (soprano)
Sieglinde Wagner (alto)
Helmut Krebs (tenor)
Josef Greindl (bass)
St Hedwigs Cathedral Choir
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Igor Markevitch (conductor)
DG 437 383-2.

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