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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 Georgia Mann.

Essential Classics: Wednesday - Sarah Walker with David Gower

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03/02/2016

Wednesday - Sarah Walker with David Gower

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Wednesday - Sarah Walker with David Gower

Artist of the Week: clarinettist Martin Frost, featured in Brahms's Clarinet Quintet.

With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite Character Dances; Music in Time: Debussy: Voiles; Artist of the Week: Martin Frost, in Brahms's Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115.

9am
My favourite... character dances. Many classical ballets incorporate stylized representations of traditional folk or national dances, and throughout the week Sarah chooses a handful of her favourite character dances from evergreen ballets including Swan Lake, Don Quixote, and Coppelia.

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

10am 
Sarah's guest is the broadcaster and former England cricket captain, David Gower. Famed as one of England's greatest batsmen, David was one of the most capped and highest scoring players of his time and led England to victory during the 1985 Ashes. Since retiring from professional cricket he has forged an equally successful career in the commentary box. David will be reminiscing about his time as cricket's golden boy, talking about his commentating career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, including works by Byrd, Bach and Beethoven, every day at 10am.

10:30
Sarah places Music in Time as she explores Debussy's use of the whole tone scale to push at the limits of tonality in his piano prelude Voiles. 

11am
Sarah's artist of the week is the Swedish clarinettist Martin Fröst, one of the best wind instrumentalists of his generation. He has performed with some of the finest orchestras from around the world, as well as being a keen recitalist and chamber musician. Throughout the week Sarah shares Fröst's interpretations of classics of the clarinet repertoire including Crusell's Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Saint-Saëns's Sonata in E flat major, Brahms's Quintet in B minor, Debussy's Premiere rapsodie and Mozart's Concerto. 

Brahms
Quintet in B minor Op.115 for clarinet and strings
Martin Fröst (clarinet)
Janine Jansen (violin)
Boris Brovtsyn (violin)
Maxim Rysanov (viola) 
Torleif Thedéen (cello).

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