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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: Monday - Sarah Walker with Simon Russell Beale

Monday - Sarah Walker with Simon Russell Beale

22/06/2015

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Monday - Sarah Walker with Simon Russell Beale

Artist of the Week: conductor and organist Simon Preston, in Ives, Palestrina and Bach.

With Sarah Walker. 5 Reasons to Love the Countertenor Voice; Building a Library: Wagner: Die Meistersinger; Artist of the Week: Simon Preston, featured in Ives, Palestrina and Bach.

Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Sarah Walker. Her guest this week is the actor Simon Russell Beale.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... the countertenor voice'. As part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season, Sarah offers a selection of music that showcases the qualities of the countertenor voice. She shares works that display its virtuosity and lyrical, plangent beauty, courtesy of countertenors including Philippe Jaroussky, Andreas Scholl and Alfred Deller. 

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the place associated with a well-known work.

10am 
Sarah's guest this week is the actor Simon Russell Beale. One of the greatest talents of British theatre, Simon has taken on roles including Shakespeare's King Lear and Timon of Athens at the National Theatre, and is currently starring in Steve Waters' Temple at the Donmar Warehouse. He has also received accolades for his work in television and film, including the popular spy drama Spooks. As part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season, Simon talks to Sarah about his early life as a chorister and shares a selection of his favourite classical music, every day at 10am. 

10.30am
Sarah features the Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD review

Wagner
Die Meistersinger

11am
The organist and conductor Simon Preston is Sarah's artist of the week. Preston is widely renowned as a virtuoso organist, as well as being an acclaimed conductor specialising in sacred choral music. Sarah will be sharing a selection of his finest recordings for organ across the week, ranging from Bach to Charles Ives, as well as performances that showcase Preston conducting choral works by composers including Purcell, Palestrina and Haydn. 

Ives
Variations for organ on 'America'
Simon Preston (organ) 

Palestrina
Tu es petrus
Choir of Westminster Abbey
Simon Preston (conductor)

Bach
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543
Simon Preston (organ).

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