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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: Thursday - Sarah Walker with Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Monday - Sarah Walker with Maggie Aderin-Pocock

10/03/2016

Thursday - Sarah Walker with Maggie Aderin-Pocock

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Thursday - Sarah Walker with Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Artist of the Week: violinist Nathan Milstein, featured in Massenet's Meditation (Thais).

With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite Scherzos; Music in Time: Hildegard of Bingen; Artist of the Week: violinist Nathan Milstein, featured in Massenet's Meditation from Thais.

9am
My favourite... scherzos. The title 'scherzo' derives from the Italian for 'joke', and many composers have found it suited to a particularly light hearted style of writing. Through the week Sarah chooses a handful of her favourites ranging from the capricious to the virtuosic, with examples by composers including Antonin Dvorak, Frederic Chopin, Madeleine Dring and Antonio Bazzini.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.

10am 
Sarah's guest is the space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock. Maggie specialises in satellite technology and has worked on projects including the Gemini Observatory, the James Webb space telescope and the European satellite ADM-Aeolus. She is also a public speaker, broadcaster and presenter of programmes including The Sky at Night, and is committed to inspiring the next generation of scientists. Maggie will be talking about her career, and her life-long obsession with space, and sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, every day at 10am.

10:30
Sarah places Music in Time. The focus is on the Medieval period and the music of the 11th century philosopher and Christian mystic, Hildegard of Bingen.


11am
Sarah's artist of the week is one of the great violinists of the 20th century, Nathan Milstein. Celebrated for his radiant tone, expressive ease and aristocratic poise, he was called "'the prince of the violin". These qualities are demonstrated throughout the week, in virtuoso concertos by Tchaikovsky and Dvorak, and in masterpieces of the violin repertoire including Beethoven's 'Spring Sonata', Bach's B minor Partita for solo violin and showpieces by Delibes and Chopin. 

Massenet
Meditation from 'Thais'
Nathan Milstein (violin)
Leon Pommers (piano)

Chopin arr. Milstein
Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op. posth.
Nathan Milstein (violin)
Leon Pommers (piano).

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