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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 Suzy Klein and Ian Skelly

Essential Classics: Tuesday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with guest Eddie Izzard

Monday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with guest Eddie Izzard

08/12/2015

Tuesday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with guest Eddie Izzard

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With Sarah Walker. Includes Perotin's Viderunt omnes and Sibelius's Night Ride and Sunrise

With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Nordic Song; Musical challenge; Music in Time: Perotin: Viderunt omnes; Nordic recordings: Sibelius: Night Ride and Sunrise.

Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Sarah Walker. Plus Rob Cowan talks to the comedian Eddie Izzard. 

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Nordic song'. As part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season Sarah shares a selection of Nordic songs, showcasing their lyrical beauty, sense of melancholy and nostalgia, the way they celebrate nature, and the dramatic stories that they tell. Sarah hears from singers including Camilla Tilling, Anne Sofie von Otter and Anders Andersson as she explores these vocal works from the frozen North. 

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

10am 
Rob talks to Eddie Izzard. Comedian, actor and multiple marathon runner, Eddie is one of the foremost stand-ups of his generation and has entertained audiences the world over. Eddie's epic Force Majeure tour, which he has toured around 28 countries (and performed in four languages), will be coming to London next year. Eddie spills the secrets of his unique brand of humour, and shares a selection of his favourite classical music, every day at 10am. 

10.30am 
Sarah places Music in Time as she ventures back to the Medieval period with Perotin's Viderunt Omnes - an example of organum, one of the earliest types of polyphony. 

11am
Sarah features recordings of major works by leading Nordic composers. Throughout the week Sarah travels through Finland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden as she shares a selection of music by Crusell, Sibelius, Grieg, Nielsen and Stenhammar. 

Sibelius
Night-Ride and Sunrise, Op. 55
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Horst Stein (conductor).

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