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Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music

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Essential Classics: Music on the Brink: Paris

Music on the Brink: Paris

07/01/2014

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Music on the Brink: Paris

With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Ravel: Piano Trio.

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: English Fantasia; Music and culture of Paris on the eve of World War One; Sarah's Essential Choice: Ravel: Piano Trio.

Sarah Walker and at 10.30am her guest, the historian Charles Emmerson, discussing the music and cultural trends in Paris on the eve of World War One.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: English Fantasia: favourite works of Elgar, Delius and Vaughan Williams. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30: Critic's Corner

10am
Artist of the Week: Elly Ameling

10.30am
Sarah and her guest the historian and writer on international affairs Charles Emmerson discuss the music and cultural trends in Paris on the eve on World War 1, as part of Radio 3's Music on the Brink season.

Charles Emmerson is the author of "1913: The World Before the Great War", and "The Future History of the Artic" He has worked for the International Crisis Group, the World Economic Forum, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House, working on resource security issues, foreign policy and global geopolitics.

11am
Essential Choice: Music on the Brink - Paris

Ravel
Piano Trio
Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Gautier Capuçon (cello)
Frank Braley (piano).

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