Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Migrated podcast image for: The Essential Classics Interview

Essential Classics

Music: Classical

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: Tuesday - Rob Cowan

Tuesday - Rob Cowan

31/07/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Tuesday - Rob Cowansearch

With Rob Cowan. Rob's Essential Choice: Beethoven: String Quartet, Op 59 No 1.

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Opera overtures conducted by Albert Wolff; Rob's Essential Choice: Dvorak: String Quintet in E flat, Op 97.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Hugo Wolf: Overtures - Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performance by the Artists of the Week, the Guarneri Quartet.

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest on Essential Classics this week is the best-selling novelist Joanna Trollope.


11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Beethoven
String Quartet Op.59 No.1
Guarneri Quartet
PHILIPS 432 980-2.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Essential Classics

Tuesday - Rob Cowan

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3