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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: Friday - Sarah Walker

Friday - Sarah Walker

18/10/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Friday - Sarah Walkersearch

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential Choice: Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54.

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Grieg - Complete Music with Orchestra; Artists of the Week: the Labeque sisters; Essential Choice: Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Grieg ? Complete Music with Orchestra ? Gothenburg Symphony, Neeme Järvi (conductor); and at 9.30 our brainteaser - Only Connect

10am
Artists of the Week: The Labèque Sisters

10.30am
The Man Booker Prize is announced this week and Sarah's guest is the 2011 prize-winner, the novelist Julian Barnes. A graduate of modern languages, Julian has worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary, and has written for the New Statesman and the Observer. He is a keen Francophile and has appeared in a BBC Radio 4 series of Inspector Maigret adaptations. Julian was made Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2004. His many international literary awards include the Somerset Maugham Award (Metroland 1981); Prix Médicis (FP 1986); E. M. Forster Award (American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1986) and the Prix Femina (Talking It Over 1992).

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54
Murray Perahia (piano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor).

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