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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 - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey

Monday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey

03/06/2016

Friday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey

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Including Wagner's Pilgrims' Chorus (Tannhauser), plus the BBC Singers live in Bristol.

With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite British String Music; Music in Time: Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 3; Wagner: Pilgrims' Chorus (Tannhauser); BBC Singers live in Bristol.

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 music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery object.

10am 
Sarah's special guest, especially for 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. She showcases the flamboyant musical style of superstar pianist-composer Liszt, as demonstrated in his Hungarian Rhapsody No.3 in B flat, S244. 

11am
Especially for 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. 

Wagner
Pilgrims' Chorus (Tannhäuser) 

John Hughes
Calon Lân 
Treorchy Male Voice Choir
John Cynan Jones (organ)

11.20am
Live music for BBC Music Day as Sarah hands over to Katie Derham to introduce a live performance by The BBC Singers from a canteen in Bristol celebrating the 75th anniversary of "Workers' Playtime" on the BBC Home Service.

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