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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

04/02/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Monday - Sarah Walkersearch

With Sarah Walker. Including Walton: Symphony No 1.

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Can-Can and Other Dances from the Opera; Artist of the Week: Marc-Andre Hamelin; Baroness Floella Benjamin; Walton: Symphony No 1.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Can-Can and other Dances from the Opera (various performers) NAXOS 8.550924

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin.

10.30am
Sarah Walker's guest this week is Baroness Floella Benjamin, television presenter, actress and politician. She is known as presenter of children's television programmes such as Play School, Play Away and Fast Forward. On stage she has appeared in shows including Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar and The Husband in Law. She has won a Special Lifetime Achievement award from BAFTA, and in 2001 was awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting. In 2010 she was introduced to the House of Lords as a Life Peer, nominated by the Liberal Democrats.

11am
The Story of Music in 50 Pieces 
No. 11: Purcell
Evening Hymn

11.07am
Walton
Symphony No. 1
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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