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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: Thursday - Rob Cowan with Francine Stock

Monday - Rob Cowan with Francine Stock

06/11/2014

Thursday - Rob Cowan with Francine Stock

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With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Bach: Chorale Prelude, BWV 651.

With Rob Cowan. Five Reasons to Love Glenn Gould; Classical Consequences; Artist of the Week: conductor Lorin Maazel; Rob's Essential Choice: Bach: Chorale Prelude, BWV 651.

Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. This week his guest is the radio and TV presenter and novelist Francine Stock. 

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love - Glenn Gould'. Throughout the week Rob makes the case for the polarising pianist Glenn Gould in music by Byrd, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms and Bach.

9.30am
Classical Consequences
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the story and tell us what happens next.

10am 
The radio and TV presenter and novelist Francine Stock joins Rob in the studio. Francine was one of the original presenters of BBC Radio 4's Front Row and later moved to The Film Programme, as well as writing about film for Prospect magazine. On television she has presented Newsnight, The Money Programme and The Antiques Show, and she is also the regular host of the BAFTA Life in Pictures strand. As a novelist, she has published two works of fiction: A Foreign Country (shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel award) and Man-Made Fibre. Francine shares a selection of her favourite music with Rob.

10.30am
Artist of the Week
Conductor Lorin Maazel in music by Mendelssohn, Scriabin, Respighi, Schubert and Prokofiev.

11am
This week's Essential Choices feature the genre of the Prelude.
Bach
Chorale Prelude, BWV 651: 'Fantasia super Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott'
Ton Koopman (organ).

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