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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: Friday - Rob Cowan with John Craven

Monday - Rob Cowan with John Craven

25/12/2015

Friday - Rob Cowan with John Craven

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Friday - Rob Cowan with John Cravensearch

Including Mozart: Divertimento in E flat and Grieg: Holberg Suite.

With Sarah Walker. Including performances by Jussi Bjorling; Music in Time: Mozart: Divertimento in E flat; Nordic composers: Grieg: Holberg Suite.

9am
As part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season Rob has chosen a singer who was known as the 'Swedish Caruso", Jussi Björling. Rob serves up a feast of songs including works by Verdi, Beethoven, Puccini and Grieg. Along the way he showcases Björling's versatility, his dramatic sensibility and his deep connection with Scandinavia.

9.30am
Take part in today's challenge. Two pieces of music are played together - can you work out what they are?

10am
Rob's guest is the original Newsround anchor and Countryfile veteran John Craven. John is remembered by generations of children for his afternoon news bulletins and jazzy jumpers, and nowadays brings his unique brand of welly-wearing journalism to an audience of millions as he chronicles modern rural life in Countryfile. John will be sharing some of his favourite classical music, including wintery scenes from Sibelius and Vivaldi, a very merry rendition of O Come all ye Faithful courtesy of the American tenor and Hollywood star Mario Lanza, and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto. 

10.30am 
Rob places Music in Time with Mozart's early Divertimento in E flat K166 - Classical wind music that would have formed the background for an aristocratic soirée. 

11am
As part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season, Rob features recordings of major works by leading Nordic composers. Throughout the week Rob explores music from the frozen North, showcasing composers including Stenhammar, Grieg, Kraus and Alfven. 

Grieg
Holberg Suite
Academy of St Martin in the Fields 
Neville Marriner (conductor).

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.

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