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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: Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Tamsin Greig

Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Tamsin Greig

08/06/2016

Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Tamsin Greig

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Sarah Walker with Auber's Overture to La muette de Portici and Mozart's Coronation Mass.

With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite Clarinettists; Music in Time: Auber: Overture (La muette de Portici); Mozart's Coronation Mass, conducted by Peter Schreier.

9am
My favourite... clarinettists. Sarah showcases her favourite clarinettists, past and present, including Martin Frost, Sabine Meyer, Michael Collins, Andrew Sparling and Benny Goodman. They'll be performing works such as Poulenc's lyrical Clarinet Sonata, Mendelssohn's virtuosic Konzertstuck No. 1 in F minor and the jazz-infused Prelude, Fugue and Riffs by Leonard Bernstein.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you remember the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?

10am 
Sarah's guest is the award-winning actress Tamsin Greig. Familiar to many listeners as Debbie Aldridge on Radio 4's The Archers, Tamsin also currently stars in the sitcom Episodes and in Channel 4's Friday Night Dinner. Tamsin's other screen roles include Dr. Caroline Todd in Green Wing and Fran Katzenjammer in Black Books. Also an acclaimed stage actress, Tamsin won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and received Olivier award nominations for The Little Dog Laughed and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Tamsin will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Charles Stanford, every day at 10am.

10.30am 
Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah features a piece from the BBC4 series Revolution & Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century. This morning, she showcases the very first example of French grand opera, with the Overture to Auber's La Muette de Portici. 

11am
This week Sarah focuses on not just one but five artists, as she celebrates distinguished instrumentalists and singers who have also developed careers as conductors. 

Mozart 
Mass in C major, K.317 'Coronation'
Edith Mathis (soprano)
Jadwiga Rappé (alto)
Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor)
Thomas Quasthoff (bass)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig
Staatskapelle Dresden
Peter Schreier (conductor).

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