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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 Suzy Klein and Ian Skelly

Essential Classics: Friday - Sarah Walker with Jeanette Winterson

Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Jeanette Winterson

23/10/2015

Friday - Sarah Walker with Jeanette Winterson

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Artist of the Week: Ensemble Wien-Berlin in Mozart's Trio, K498 (Kegelstatt).

With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Purcell Ground Bass; Music in Time: Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini Overture; Artist of the Week: Ensemble Wien-Berlin in Mozart's Trio.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Purcell ground bass'. Throughout the week Sarah shares some favourite examples of Purcell ground bass, highlighting their hypnotic nature, innate expressivity and imaginative harmonies in works including Dido and Aeneas, Ode for St Cecilia's Day and Come Ye Sons of Art. 

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: listen to the music and see if you can trace the classical inspiration. 

10am 
Sarah's guest this week is the writer Jeanette Winterson, whose semi-autobiographical 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit' won the Whitbread Award for a first novel in 1985. Since then her writing has been praised for its startling originality in books about humanoid robots, witches, time travel, quantum physics, and above all the search for love. Her latest book is the first in a series of 'covers' of Shakespeare plays - a modern take on The Winter's Tale. Jeanette will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Handel, Gluck, Adams and Barber, every day at 10am. 

10.30am
Sarah places Music in Time. Berlioz is for many the epitome of the Romantic composer. Sarah presents his Overture: Benvenuto Cellini, with its new techniques of colourful orchestration and demand for virtuoso panache from all its players. 

11am
Sarah's Artists of the Week are the Ensemble Wien-Berlin. This esteemed wind quintet was formed in 1983 when five musicians, mostly principal players with the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, decided to join forces. The group has since built up an international reputation, performing at some of the most prestigious venues in the world and collaborating with string players and pianists to widen their repertoire. Throughout the week Sarah showcases some favourites from their catalogue of recordings, with works by composers including Mozart, Spohr and Debussy. 

Mozart
Trio for clarinet, viola and piano K.498 'Kegelstatt'
Ensemble Wien-Berlin
James Levine (piano).

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