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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: Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Sandi Toksvig

Monday - Rob Cowan with Sandi Toksvig

25/12/2013

Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Sandi Toksvig

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Sandi Toksvig

With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Wagner: Siegfried Idyll.

With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: Incarnation - Christmas Music; Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski; Broadcaster Sandi Toksvig; Rob's Essential Choice: Wagner: Siegfried Idyll.

Rob Cowan's guest this week is writer, presenter and comedian, Sandi Toksvig.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Incarnation ? Christmas music ancient and modern, from the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh: SIGNUM, SIGCD346. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski.

10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the writer, presenter and comedian, Sandi Toksvig. Sandi is a familiar voice for BBC Radio 4 listeners as the chair of The News Quiz and host of the travel programme Excess Baggage. She presents 1001 Things You Should Know for Channel 4, was team captain on Call My Bluff for many years, and has appeared on other panel shows including Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mock the Week, and QI. She has been a columnist for Good Housekeeping magazine for more than twenty years and for seven years wrote every week in The Sunday Telegraph. Her latest book on manners, Peas and Queues, was published earlier this year.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice:
Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Berlin Philharmonic
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
DG 478 5188.

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.

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