Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Migrated podcast image for: The Essential Classics Interview

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: Monday - Sarah Walker with Catherine Martin

essential-classics_141215_e_alice-twomey.jpg

14/12/2015

Monday - Sarah Walker with Catherine Martin

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Monday - Sarah Walker with Catherine Martinsearch

Including Chopin: Impromptu in G flat and Sibelius: Symphony No 1 in E minor.

With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Scandinavian Strings; Music in Time: Chopin: Impromptu in G flat; CD Review recommendation: Sibelius: Symphony No 1 in E minor.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Scandinavian strings'. Throughout the week, as part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season, Sarah shares music written for strings by Nordic composers including Grieg, Bull, and Larsson, plus there's a chance to hear a traditional tune played on a Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. 

9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge and identify the place associated with a work.

10am 
Sarah's guest is the jeweller and trained classical musician Catherine Martin who, after travelling to Japan, discovered an ancient braiding technique that she spent four years perfecting and went on to use in her jewellery making. Her first piece of jewellery made the permanent collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum and she has since had exhibitions at the American Museum of Art and Design in New York, the National Museums of Scotland and the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. Throughout the week Catherine shares a selection of her favourite classical music, talks about physically stepping into Dame Janet Baker's shoes in a production with the English Opera Group and explains why she listens to the Bach Fugues whilst weaving precious metals in her work as a jeweller. 

10.30am 
Sarah places Music in Time as she goes Romantic, heading back to the 19th century. She draws a parallel between Chopin's Impromptu in G flat major Op.51 and Wordsworth's belief that all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. 

11am
Sarah features the Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review. 

Sibelius 
Symphony No.1 in E minor, Op.39.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Essential Classics

Monday - Sarah Walker with Catherine Martin

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3