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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 Suzy Klein and Ian Skelly

Essential Classics: Wednesday - Sarah Walker

Friday - Sarah Walker

13/11/2013

Wednesday - Sarah Walker

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With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Balakirev: Symphony No 1.

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Murray Perahia: Songs Without Words; Artist of the Week: Zoltan Kocsis; Sarah's Essential Choice: Balakirev: Symphony No 1.

With Sarah Walker and her guest the author, Philip Pullman. Also, at 9:30am, our brainteaser: Listener Puzzle

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Murray Perahia: Songs Without Words

10am
Artist of the Week: Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer, Zoltan Kocsis.

10.30am
In the week of BBC Children in Need, Sarah's guest is the multi-award winning author Philip Pullman, best known for the fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials. The final instalment, The Amber Spyglass, won the 2001 Whitbread Prize for best children's book and the Whitbread Book of the Year prize in January 2002, the first children's book to receive that award. In 2005 Pullman won the biggest prize in children's literature, the annual Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council. Many of his works have been adapted for screen including I Was a Rat!, The Butterfly Tattoo, The Ruby in the Smoke and a film adaptation of Northern Lights, titled The Golden Compass, was released in December 2007. In 2012, Pullman was asked by Penguin Classics to curate 50 of Grimms' classic fairytales, from their collection of over 200 tales.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Balakirev
Symphony No 1 in C
Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert Von Karjan (conductor)
EMI

Also in this hour, Lucky Dip: Sarah dips into her CD collection and shares a piece ? it could be a recent discovery, an old favourite, or simply something that just has to be heard. Expect the unexpected!

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