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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: Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Richard Stilgoe

Monday - Rob Cowan with Richard Stilgoe

25/02/2015

Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Richard Stilgoe

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With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Schmitt: The Tragedy of Salome.

With Rob Cowan. Five Reasons to Love Vocal Chamber Music; Musical challenge; Artists of the Week: The Jerusalem Quartet; Rob's Essential Choice: Schmitt: The Tragedy of Salome.

With Rob Cowan. Including 9.00 A selection of music including Five Reasons to Love Vocal Chamber Music. 9.30 Musical challenge: Mapping the Music. 10.00 Rob's guest this week is songwriter, lyricist and musician Richard Stilgoe, who selects his favourite pieces of music. 10.30 Artists of the Week: the Jerusalem Quartet. 11.00 Rob's Essential Choice: With Rob Cowan and his guest Richard Stilgoe.

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Vocal Chamber Music'. Throughout the week Rob enjoys vocal quartets, sextets, duets and trios by Schubert, Brahms, Schumann and Shostakovich.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to three musical extracts, try and find a connection and see if you can suggest the missing fourth. 

10am 
Rob's guest this week is the songwriter, lyricist, and musician Richard Stilgoe. From writing musicals with Andrew Lloyd Webber (Cats, Starlight Express, Phantom of the Opera) appearances on Nationwide and That's Life and working as a double act with Peter Skellern - music has been at the heart of Richard's career. Richard will be sharing his favourite classical music every day at 10am. 

10.30am
This week Rob features recordings by the Jerusalem Quartet. Former BBC New Generation Artists, the quartet has been carving out a remarkable reputation in both string quartet and chamber music repertoire. Rob showcases their recordings of Haydn, Mozart, Schumann, Schuann, Brahms and Shostakovich.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice 

Schmitt
The Tragedy of Salome 
Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic
Sascha Goetzel (conductor).

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