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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 Suzy Klein and Ian Skelly

Essential Classics: Thursday - Rob Cowan

Thursday - Rob Cowan

07/06/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Thursday - Rob Cowansearch

With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky.

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: All Shall Be Well: Exultate Singers; Historian Peter Hennessy's favourite music; Rob's Essential Choice: Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: All Shall Be Well: Exultate Singers, David Ogden - NAXOS 8.57276.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, conductor Adrian Boult.

10.30am
This week Britain celebrates the Diamond Jubilee of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, only the second British monarch to celebrate 60 years on the throne. Rob Cowan's guest is the historian Lord Hennessy, who since 1992 has been Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London. He shares his essential pieces of classical music.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

Prokofiev
Alexander Nevsky
Alfreda Hodgson (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Philharmonia Chorus
Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
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