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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: Sarah Walker, Rob Cowan and guest Charles Dance

Monday - Sarah Walker with Charles Dance

08/04/2015

Sarah Walker, Rob Cowan and guest Charles Dance

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Sarah Walker, Rob Cowan and guest Charles Dancesearch

With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor.

With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Chopin's Preludes; musical challenge; Artist of the Week: Andre Previn; Sarah's Essential Choice: Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor.

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Chopin's Preludes'. Throughout the week Sarah offers a selection of her favourite preludes, highlighting the variety of expression and sentiment contained in Chopin's famous set with classic recordings by pianists including Martha Argerich, Garrick Ohlsson, Shura Cherkassky and Vladimir Ashkenazy.

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

10am
Veteran British star of stage and screen Charles Dance shares his favourite classical music with Rob Cowan every morning and talks about roles such as Tywin Lannister in hit TV series Game of Thrones. During his four-decade long career, other credits include the Jewel in the Crown, Gosford Park and The Imitation Game. His new film, Woman in Gold, opens this week.

10.30am
Sarah's featured artist this week is the conductor and pianist André Previn whose recordings range from the classics of the American repertoire and famous ballet scores to film music and his own compositions. Sarah will be exploring the full range of this very versatile artist throughout the week.

11am
For this week's Essential Choices Sarah shares her love of both well-known and rare Nordic masterpieces.

Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor
Radu Lupu (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
André Previn (conductor).

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