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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: Friday - Sarah Walker with Simon Russell Beale

Monday - Sarah Walker with Simon Russell Beale

26/06/2015

Friday - Sarah Walker with Simon Russell Beale

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

Artist of the Week: Simon Preston, featured conducting Haydn's Missa Sanctae Caeciliae.

With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love the Countertenor Voice; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: Simon Preston, featured conducting Haydn's Missa Sanctae Caeciliae.

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 today's musical challenge: trace the classical theme behind a well-known song. 

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 Water's 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. 

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. 

Haydn
Missa Sanctae Caeciliae
The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
The Academy of Ancient Music
Simon Preston (conductor).

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