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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: Monday - Sarah Walker

Monday - Sarah Walker

21/05/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Monday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Gesualdo: A survey of his music.

With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: instrumentalist, composer and conductor Jordi Savall; Sarah's Essential Choice: Gesualdo: A survey of his music.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Poulenc chamber music from Pascal Roge and friends: DECCA 4757097

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the instrumentalist, composer and conductor Jordi Savall.

10.30am
In the week of the Chelsea Flower Show, Sarah's guest is the award-winning landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith. Tom Stuart-Smith was a child chorister and plays the violin, so music has always been a passion for him. His favourite composers range from Bach to Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Verdi, Wagner, Messiaen and Schoenberg. 

11am
Gesualdo: A survey of his music.
Excerpts from recordings discussed in Building a Library from last Saturday's CD Review.

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