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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: Thursday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey

Monday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey

02/06/2016

Thursday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey

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Including the Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus in Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe (excerpts).

With Sarah Walker. My Favourite British String Music; Music in Time: Beethoven: Symphony No 3 (excerpt); Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus in Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe (excerpts).

9am
My favourite... British string music. We'll hear a mixture of favourites including Elgar's Serenade for Strings and the Fantasia on Greensleeves by Vaughan Williams, along with lesser-known works by Charles Avison and Frederick Delius.

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 special guest, especially for the week of BBC Music Day, is the musician, composer and broadcaster Guy Garvey. He's the front man of rock band Elbow, who have released six studio albums, won the Mercury Music Prize, headlined at Glastonbury and performed a specially written song for the closing of the 2012 Olympics in London. Guy also released a solo album last year, which reached the top three of the album charts. He's won Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting and presents his own programme 'The Finest Hour' on BBC 6 Music. Every day at 10am Guy will be choosing a selection of his favourite classical music including pieces by Puccini, Françaix and Mendelssohn. 

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic 
Sarah features a piece from the first of the BBC4 series Revolution and Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century. Today Sarah is on the cusp of the Classical and Romantic periods for a performance of Beethoven's magnificent Third Symphony, 'Eroica', with its unprecedented range of emotion and style within one symphonic work.

11.30am
In the week of BBC Music Day, a UK-wide celebration of everything we love about music, Sarah features choral societies from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales including the Huddersfield Choral Society, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus and the Treorchy Male Voice Choir. 

Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé - Parts II & III 
Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus
Ulster Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor).

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