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: Wednesday - Rob Cowan

Wednesday - Rob Cowan

20/03/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Wednesday - Rob Cowansearch

With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Bach: Double Violin Concerto, BWV1043.

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: S'il vous plait: Mie Miki (accordion); Christopher Hogwood; Rob's Essential Choice: Bach: Double Violin Concerto, BWV1043.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: S?il vous plait ? Mie Miki (accordion), BIS CD 1804

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Baroque Spring Artist of the Week, Christopher Hogwood, one of the great pioneers of early music performance.

10.30am
This week Rob Cowan is joined by the philosopher Alain de Botton, a keen Baroque enthusiast. Alain has written on the topics of love, travel, architecture and literature, and his books have been described as a 'philosophy of everyday life.' His first book, Essays in Love, was published when he was twenty-three, and has sold two million copies worldwide. Other titles include How Proust can change your Life (which earned him a global audience) and The Art of Travel. In 2009 he was appointed Heathrow's first Writer-in-Residence and wrote a book about his experiences, A Week at the Airport. His latest book, Religion for Atheists, was published in the UK last year.

Alain also started and helps to run a school in London called The School of Life, dedicated to a new vision of education, which challenges traditional conceptions about knowledge, directing it towards life, rather than knowledge for its own sake. He has had several TV series, including The Perfect Home and Philosophy: A Guide To Happiness, and in 2011 he presented a series of talks for the BBC Radio 4 programme, A Point of View.

11am: Rob?s Essential Choice

Bach: Double Violin Concerto, BWV 1043
Jaap Schroder and Christopher Hirons (violins)
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

11.16
Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Kubelík (conductor).

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

Wednesday - Rob Cowan

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3