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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 Geraldine James

Monday - Rob Cowan with Geraldine James

25/03/2015

Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Geraldine James

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With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat.

With Rob Cowan. Including Reasons to Love Schumann songs; Musical challenge; Artists of the Week: the LaSalle Quartet; Rob's Essential Choice: Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat.

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Schumann songs.' Amongst the greatest musical achievements of the nineteenth century, each day this week Rob will handpick a great interpreter to showcase these miniature marvels. 

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

10am 
Rob's guest this week is the actress Geraldine James. An award-winning actress of both stage and screen, Geraldine will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Tallis, Schubert and Bach, every day at 10am. 

10.30am
This week Rob features the LaSalle Quartet. A personal favourite of Rob's, he will be exploring this American string quartet's finest recordings by composers including Brahms, Wolf, Beethoven and Debussy, as well as their renowned interpretations of Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School.

11am
This week Rob showcases Haydn masterpieces

Haydn
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet)
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor).

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