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Essential Classics

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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: Young Artists Day - Sarah Walker with Folu Odimayo

Sarah Walker

04/05/2015

Young Artists Day - Sarah Walker with Folu Odimayo

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Young Artists Day - Sarah Walker with Folu Odimayo

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential Choice Scriabin: Prometheus: The Poem of Fire.

With Sarah Walker. Five Reasons to Love Youth Orchestras; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: Benjamin Grosvenor; Essential Choice: Scriabin: Prometheus: The Poem of Fire.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... youth orchestras'. Especially for the week of Radio 3's Young Artists Day, Sarah explores recordings by top youth orchestras, including the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, with music by Bartók, Debussy, Adès and Ginastera.

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

10am 
As part of Radio 3's Young Artists Day, Sarah's guest is the up-and-coming dancer and choreographer Folu Odimayo. Folu will talk about his career and choose his favourite classical music. 

10.30am
To mark Radio 3's Young Artists Day Sarah is featuring the pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. At just 22 years old, Grosvenor is a Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the youngest artist ever to sign to Decca Records and is the youngest soloist to have performed at the first night of the Proms. Throughout the week Sarah showcases Grosvenor's recordings of works by composers including Bach, Ravel, Chopin, Saint-Saëns and Gershwin. 

11am
Today's Essential Choice is taken from the Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
Scriabin
Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op 60


BBC Radio 3's Young Artists Day.
Radio 3 salutes some of the new and upcoming talent active in the arts today under the age of 25. As well as hearing from young choreographers, composers, musicians and writers throughout the day, Radio 3 will be playing music of great composers in their youthful periods, alongside recordings of seminal performers made when they were young.

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