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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 Suzy Klein and Ian Skelly

Essential Classics: Thursday - Sarah Walker with Uta Frith

Thursday - Sarah Walker with Uta Frith

03/04/2014

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With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 5 in F.

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Elizabethan Consort Music; Brainteaser; Artist of the Week: Vladimir Ashkenazy; Sarah's Essential Choice: Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 5 in F.

with Sarah Walker and her guest, developmental psychologist, Uta Frith.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Elizabethan Consort Music; Hesperion XX and Jordi Savall, ALIA VOX. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artist of the Week: Vladimir Ashkenazy

10.30am
2nd April is World Autism Awareness Day, and Sarah's guest this week is the developmental psychologist, Prof. Uta Frith. Uta is a leading expert in the areas of dyslexia and autism, and has contributed several major theories, which have helped form a better understanding of the conditions. Her aim still is to discover the underlying causes of these disorders, and to link them to behaviour and to the brain. She has received an extensive list of awards for her outstanding research, including an honorary DBE in 2012.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Beethoven
Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24 'Spring'
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Cedric Tiberghien (piano).

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