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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 - Sarah Walker with James Palumbo

Monday - Sarah Walker with James Palumbo

13/11/2014

Thursday - Sarah Walker with James Palumbo

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With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (Act 4).

With Sarah Walker. Five Reasons to Love Ballet Music; Recording Rewind; Artist of the Week: trumpeter Alison Balsom; Sarah's Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (Act 4).

With Sarah Walker and her guest, the entrepreneur James Palumbo. 

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love - ballet music'. Throughout the week Sarah makes the case for ballet music and dips into scores from some of the masters of the art form including Tchaikovsky, Rameau and Prokofiev. 

9.30am
Recording Rewind 
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.

10am 
Sarah?s guest this week is the entrepreneur James Palumbo. James co-founded the Ministry of Sound nightclub in 1991. The business has since branched out into a number of areas, becoming a global brand and the largest independent record company in the world. James was recently made a life peer, taking the title Baron Palumbo of Southwark. James shares a selection of his favourite classical music with Sarah. 

10.30am
This week's featured artist is the trumpeter Alison Balsom. 

11am
Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake: Act IV
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor).

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