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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 Georgia Mann.

Essential Classics: Monday - Sarah Walker

Monday - Sarah Walker

15/07/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Monday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential Choice: Strauss: Divertimento (after F Couperin).

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Mendelssohn Part Songs; Proms Artist Recommends: Vilde Frang; Sarah's Essential Choice: Strauss: Divertimento (after F Couperin).

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Mendelssohn Part Songs, Netherlands Chamber Choir, GLOBE GLO5075, and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser.

10am
A new feature for the 2013 Proms Season: 'Proms Artist Recommends'.
An artist performing later today in the BBC Proms recommends three musical works, and on Essential Classics we'll play one of those pieces around 10am. Today's artist is violinist Vilde Frang, ahead of her performance in the first of the Proms Chamber Music concerts this lunchtime.

10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the lawyer and former President of the European Court of Human Rights, Sir Nicolas Bratza. Among his many positions, Sir Nicolas is a member of the Advisory Council and former Vice-Chairman of the British Institute of Human Rights, a member of the Advisory Board of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and a member of the Editorial Board of the European Human Rights Law Review.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

R Strauss: Divertimento "after Couperin", Op. 86
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

11.36am
Poulenc: Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano
Pascal Rogé (piano)
Maurice Bourgue (oboe)
Amaury Wallez (bassoon).

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