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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: Friday - Sarah Walker with James May

Monday - Sarah Walker with James May

14/02/2014

Friday - Sarah Walker with James May

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Friday - Sarah Walker with James May

Sarah Walker's guest this week is writer and television presenter James May.

A selection of music with Sarah Walker and at 10.30am her guest is writer and television presenter James May. Also, at 9.30am, our daily brainteaser Only Connect.

Sarah Walker's guest this week is writer and television presenter James May.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Bach - Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Book II, Christophe Rousset (harpsichord), APARTÉ AP070. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artist of the Week: Alfred Brendel.

10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is James May, the writer and TV presenter best known as one of the trio of 'Top Gear' presenters alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. But there's more to James than his macho image would suggest - not many people know that he studied music at Lancaster University, and is a keen flautist and keyboard player who loves early music, as Sarah Walker will discover this week.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice:
Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
Luba Orgonasova (soprano)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Gilles Cachemaille (bass)
The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
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