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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 - Sarah Walker with Sally Phillips

Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Sally Phillips

24/08/2016

Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Sally Phillips

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Sally Phillips

Proms Artist of the Day: Marin Alsop, conducting Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915.

With Sarah Walker. My Favourite English Idylls; Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time; Proms Artist of the Day: Marin Alsop, featured conducting Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915.

9am
My favourite... English Idylls
This week Sarah chooses a selection of pieces that are perfect for summer - English Idylls. Usually inspired by landscape or folk traditions, they tend to be a wistful and melodic reflection of pastoral or rural life. Sarah has lined up a selection of some of the best, by composers including Arnold Bax, George Butterworth, Gustav Holst, Percy Grainger and Frederic Delius.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: trace the classical theme behind a well-known song.

10am 
Sarah's guest is the actress Sally Phillips. Famous for her roles in Miranda, the Bridget Jones films and Clare in the Community and Talking to Strangers on Radio 4, Sally will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music including works which recall her upbringing in the Middle East and pieces which she discovered from playing the flute, including works by Saint-Saëns, Smetana, Rachmaninov and Cecile Chaminade. Sally is Sarah's guest every day at 10am.

10.30am
Music in Time: Modern
In Music in Time today Sarah turns to the Modern era. Today she places Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time under the microscope and discovers the technique of 'additive rhythms', the result of which is a kind of organized anarchy!

10.45am
Sarah's Proms artist of the day is Marin Alsop, a conductor very familiar to audiences in the Royal Albert Hall, having recently conducted two of the Last Night of the Proms. Marin is known for her mastery of American repertoire and Sarah has chosen a hyper-romantic piece by Samuel Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915.

Barber
Knoxville: Summer of 1915 
Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor).

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