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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 - Sarah Walker with Sally Phillips

Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Sally Phillips

25/08/2016

Thursday - Sarah Walker with Sally Phillips

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

With Proms Artist of the Day: Truls Mork, featured in Miaskovsky's Cello Sonata No 1.

With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite English Idylls; Music in Time: classical; Proms Artist of the Day: cellist Truls Mork, featured in Miaskovsky's Cello Sonata No 1.

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 our daily musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?

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: Classical
Sarah places Music in Time and today discovers how sets of variations were composed in the Classical era. Often the basis for the variations were well-known songs, nursery rhymes, or in the case of Beethoven's Variations on "Kind, willst du ruhig schlafen", from a popular opera. Beethoven takes what is quite a simple tune, and produces something altogether more complex. 

10.45am
Sarah's Proms artist of the day is the Danish cellist Truls Mørk. Tonight Truls will be tackling the fiendishly difficult First Cello Concerto by Shostakovich, and this morning Sarah features Truls in music by another Soviet composer, Nikolai Miaskovsky, his First Cello Sonata, a relaxed and reflective piece written in a much more Romantic style.

Miaskovsky
Cello Sonata No.1 
Truls Mørk (cello)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano).

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