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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: Friday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

Monday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

12/08/2016

Friday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

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

Including Proms Artist: Paul Watkins (cello), in Martinu: Variations on a Slovak Folksong.

With Rob Cowan. My Favourite Impromptus; Music in Time: Pachelbel's Musikalische Ergotzung; Proms Artist: Paul Watkins (cello), in Martinu: Variations on a Slovak Folksong.

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 today's musical challenge: trace the classical theme behind a well-known song.

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: Baroque
Rob places Music in Time, heading back to the Baroque era with music by Pachelbel, who is known almost exclusively for his famous canon. Rob explores Pachelbel's output further, looking in particular at his chamber music collection, Musikalische Ergötzung - 'Musical Delight'. 

10:45am
Rob's Proms artist of the day is the cellist Paul Watkins, who will be taking to the stage in tonight's Prom to premiere his composer-pianist brother Huw Watkins' Cello Concerto. This morning Rob features both brothers in a recording of Martinu's Variations on a Slovak Folksong. Having worked with the Nash Ensemble and the Emerson Quartet, Paul, like Huw, is a seasoned chamber player: both make the very most of Martinu's engaging set of Variations. 

Martinu
Variations on a Slovak Folksong
Paul Watkins (cello)
Huw Watkins (piano).

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