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Essential Classics: Thursday - Sarah Walker with Catherine Martin

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17/12/2015

Thursday - Sarah Walker with Catherine Martin

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Including Mozart: Sonata No 16 in C and Nielsen: Wind Quintet.

With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Scandinavian Strings; Music in Time: Mozart: Sonata No 16 in C; Northern Lights season: Nielsen: Wind Quintet.

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 our daily musical challenge. Two pieces of music are played together. Can you identify them?

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. She examines Mozart's use of the Alberti bass in his Sonata No.16 in C major K545. The Alberti bass was a technique of keyboard writing built on quick-moving arpeggios, which emerged during the Classical period to complement the slower moving harmony of music during the 18th and early 19th centuries. 

11am
As part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season, Sarah features recordings of major works by leading Nordic composers. Throughout the week Sarah explores music from northern lands as she showcases compositions by composers including Sinding, Nielsen and Berwald. 

Nielsen
Wind Quintet
Frosunda Wind Quintet.

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