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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 Georgia Mann.

Essential Classics: Monday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

Monday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

08/08/2016

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Monday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

Proms Artist of the Day: Thomas Dausgaard, conducting Schubert: Overture (Die Zauberharfe)

With Rob Cowan. Includes My Favourite Impromptus; CPE Bach: Sinfonia in B flat; Proms Artist of the Day: Thomas Dausgaard, featured conducting Schubert's Overture (Die Zauberharfe).

9:00am
My Favourite... Impromptus. This week Rob shares a selection of his favourite impromptus, works that are based on improvisation and impulse. The line-up includes Schubert's Impromptu in G flat, performed by Alfred Brendel, Scriabin's Impromptu Op.14 No.1 with Klara Min and Bennett's Five Impromptus for guitar featuring Craig Ogden. 

9:30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?

10am 
Rob's guest this week is the BAFTA award winning actress and writer Jessica Hynes. Jessica was one of the creators and stars of the popular British sitcom Spaced, and is well known for her other comic roles including Cheryl in The Royle Family and Siobhan in the Olympics backroom comedy Twenty Twelve, and the BBC parody W1A. Jessica will be talking about her comedy writing and her acting roles, and sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by John Ireland, Marcel Tournier and Will Todd, every day at 10am.

10:30am
Music in Time: Classical
Rob places Music in Time, looking at CPE Bach's Sinfonia in B flat major, Wq 182 No.2, which shows the stylistic transition from the Baroque to the Classical period. 

10:45am
Rob's Proms artist of the day is the conductor Thomas Dausgaard, who took to the rostrum in yesterday's Prom 31 to conduct Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. Today Rob features Dausgaard's interpretation of the overture to Schubert's effervescent Die Zauberharfe. 

Schubert
Die Zauberharfe: Overture
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor).

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