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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 Suzy Klein and Ian Skelly

Essential Classics: Friday - Rob Cowan with Malorie Blackman

Monday - Rob Cowan with Malorie Blackman

27/05/2016

Friday - Rob Cowan with Malorie Blackman

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Including Artist of the Week: Suk Trio, featured in Schubert's Piano Trio in B flat, D898.

With Rob Cowan. My Favourite Handel Concerti Grossi; Music in Time: The English Madrigal School; Artist of the Week: Suk Trio, featured in Schubert's Piano Trio in B flat, D898.

9am
My favourite... Handel Concerti Grossi Op. 6. Rob shares his favourite Baroque masterpieces from Handel's Twelve Grand Concertos. The line up features performances of these energetic concertos by the Academy of Ancient Music directed by Andrew Manze, Concentus Musicus Wien and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Il Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini and Thurston Dart conducting the Boyd Neel Orchestra. 

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the place associated with a well-known work.

10am
Rob's guest is the author Malorie Blackman. Malorie has written over sixty books for children and young readers and was the Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. Her books include Pig-Heart Boy, which was turned into a BAFTA-winning television series, Cloud Busting, and the critically acclaimed Noughts and Crosses series. Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her contribution to children's books, and has also received an OBE for her services to children's literature. Malorie will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by the 19th century composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor, and Florence Price, the first African-American woman to have a composition performed by a major symphony orchestra. 

10:30am
Music in Time: Renaissance 
The spotlight is on the Renaissance period and The English Madrigal School, with music including William Byrd's This sweet and merry month of May (known as the first English madrigal), Thomas Morley's Arise, awake, you silly shepherds sleeping and Thomas Tomkins's Weep no more thou sorry boy. 

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the Suk Trio. Throughout the week Rob delves into the archives of this internationally renowned piano trio, sharing recordings including Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D Minor Op. 49, Dvorak's Piano Trio No.3 in F minor, Op.65 and Brahms's Piano Trio No.1 in B major, Op.8. 

Schubert
Piano Trio in B flat major, D898
Suk Trio.

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