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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: Thursday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

Monday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

11/08/2016

Thursday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

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

With Proms Artist of the Day: BBC NOW, performing Stravinsky's Scherzo fantastique.

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Impromptus; Music in Time: Tomas Luis de Victoria; Proms Artist of the Day: BBC NOW, featured performing Stravinsky's Scherzo fantastique.

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 remember the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?

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: Renaissance
Rob places Music in Time, turning the spotlight on the Renaissance era as he examines how the publication of polyphonic music helped to advance the career and fame of Tomás Luis de Victoria, spreading his name, and his glorious music, beyond his native Spain. 

10:45am
Rob features the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, who will be playing music by Bartók, Malcolm Hayes and Dvorák in tonight's Prom. This morning Rob shares their interpretation of Stravinsky's Scherzo Fantastique, the sort of narrative repertoire that the orchestra excels in. Conductor Thierry Fischer draws kaleidoscopic colours from BBC NOW in this late-Romantic showpiece. 

Stravinsky
Scherzo fantastique
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor).

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