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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 Georgia Mann.

Essential Classics: Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Kate Atkinson

Monday - Rob Cowan with Kate Atkinson

05/02/2014

Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Kate Atkinson

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Kate Atkinson

With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2.

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Trio Mediaeval - Folk Songs; Artists of the Week: Ensemble Wien-Berlin; Rob's Essential Choice: Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Trio Mediaeval ? Folk Songs, ECM 476 6179. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artists of the Week: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.

10.30am
This week is National Storytelling Week (with National Libraries' Day this Saturday, 8th February) and Rob's guest is the award-winning author, Kate Atkinson. Kate's first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1985, and she has been a critically acclaimed international bestselling author ever since. Her novel Case Histories introduced her readers to Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, and won the Saltire Book of the Year Award and the Prix Westminster, while When Will There Be Good News? was voted Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year. Her latest novel, Life After Life, recently won the 2013 Costa Novel Award. Kate was awarded an MBE in the Queen's 2011 Birthday Honours, for services to literature.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice:
Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 2
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Stanislaw Wislocki (conductor)
DG.

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