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Essential Classics

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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: Friday - Sarah Walker with Gyles Brandreth

Thursday - Sarah Walker with Gyles Brandreth

04/03/2016

Friday - Sarah Walker with Gyles Brandreth

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Friday - Sarah Walker with Gyles Brandreth

Including Artist of the Week: pianist Alfred Brendel in Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor.

With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite Viola Pieces; Music in Time: Mozart: 12 Variations on Ah vous dirai-je, Maman; Artist of the Week: Alfred Brendel in Liszt's Piano Sonata.

9am
My favourite... viola pieces. Viola player Cecil Aronowitz, who co-founded the Melos Ensemble and was a preferred extra with the Amadeus Quartet, was born one hundred years ago this week. To celebrate his anniversary Sarah chooses a selection of her favourite short pieces for Aronowitz's somewhat overlooked, even mocked, instrument, including works by Rebecca Clarke, Debussy, Strauss and Bach. 

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: trace the classical theme behind a well-known song.

10am 
Sarah's guest is Gyles Brandreth, the once MP and Government whip whose way with words makes him much in demand on television and radio, with appearances on everything from Countdown to Just a Minute. Gyles reminisces about meeting Yehudi Menuhin, and muses on the secrets of happiness and having fun, while choosing music by Liszt, Verdi, Janacek and Handel, every day at 10am. 

10:30
Sarah places Music in Time with a study of Classical symmetry and sense of proportion in Mozart's Twelve Variations on 'Ah vous dirai-je, Maman' 

11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the world renowned pianist Alfred Brendel whose performances of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Liszt set the benchmark for interpretations of intelligence and authority. Sarah's outings of his top recordings complement Friday's BBC 4 documentary Perfect Pianists, a journey through 60 years of BBC archive that showcases some the greatest names in the history of the piano - including Brendel. 

Liszt
Piano Sonata in B minor S178
Alfred Brendel (piano).

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