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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: Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Kate Adie

Monday - Rob Cowan with Kate Adie

13/07/2016

Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Kate Adie

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Kate Adie

With Artist of the Week: conductor Sakari Oramo in Nielsen's Symphony No 3.

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Sonatinas; Music in Time: Chopin's Ballade No 4; Artist of the Week: conductor Sakari Oramo, featured in Nielsen's Symphony No 3.

9am
My favourite...sonatinas. Throughout the week Rob showcases a range of 'small sonatas' by composers including CPE Bach, Busoni and Ravel. Sonatinas are usually lighter in feel and less demanding than a full sonata, but it's still possible to pack plenty into these smaller forms. Expect flair, technical wizardry, whimsy and more besides. 

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: Two pieces of music have been altered. Can you identify them?

10am 
Rob's guest is the veteran correspondent and author Kate Adie. Kate became a familiar face on our televisions as the BBC's chief news correspondent, reporting from war zones around the world and covering major events including the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the Rwandan genocide and the Gulf War. She went on to write a number of books including Corsets to Camouflage: Women and War and her autobiography The Kindness of Strangers. She currently presents From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4. Kate talks about her career and shares a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Ethel Smyth and Carl Michael Bellman, and Smetana's Ma Vlast, which she heard whilst reporting on the 'Velvet Revolution' in Prague.

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Rob places Music in Time with Chopin's Ballade No. 4 Op. 52, which demonstrates the Romantic trend for 'tempo rubato', described by Ignacy Jan Paderewski as 'this irreconcilable foe of the metronome'. 

11am
In the week leading up to the start of the Proms Rob's featured artist is the 'First Night' conductor Sakari Oramo. Oramo is Chief Conductor of both the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. After a decade as Chief Conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, he currently serves as their Honorary Conductor. Rob shares Oramo's interpretations of works by composers including Rachmaninov, Lindberg and Sibelius. 

Nielsen
Symphony No.3 'Sinfonia espansiva' Op.27 
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor).

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