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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: Monday - Sarah Walker with Vivienne Parry

Monday - Sarah Walker with Vivienne Parry

05/12/2016

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Monday - Sarah Walker with Vivienne Parry

Artist of the Week: flautist Aurele Nicolet, featured in Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante.

With Sarah Walker. My Favourite Lute Music; Music in Time: Handel: Music for Royal Fireworks; Artist of the Week: flautist Aurele Nicolet, featured in Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante.

9am
My favourite... lute music. Sarah shares a selection of her favourite pieces written for the lute, with works by Vivaldi, Dowland and Bach played by such celebrated lutenists as Jakob Lindberg, Christopher Wilson, Nigel North and Paul O'Dette.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: which location is being depicted in this piece of music?

10am 
Sarah's guest is the science writer and broadcaster Vivienne Parry. A scientist by training, Vivienne is best known for having presented the BBC television series Tomorrow's World, and for her Radio 4 programmes which include Just So Science, about the science behind the animals of the Just So stories, and the multi award winning series Am I Normal? Vivienne writes for newspapers including The Times and The Guardian, and is science editor of Good Housekeeping magazine. Her book, The Truth About Hormones, was nominated for the Aventis Science Prize. Throughout the week Vivienne talks to Sarah about her passion for communicating science, and shares her favourite pieces of classical music. 

10.30am
Power of Three - the next episode in a 70-part daily series of pioneering sounds from the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3 archives presented by David Hendy.

Followed by Music in Time 

Music in Time: Baroque
Sarah places Music in Time as she looks at the way music moved away from modal harmony towards a fully-fledged diatonic system during the Baroque period, showing how the minuet from Handel's Music for Royal Fireworks is a fine example of this. 

11am 
Sarah's artist of the week is the Swiss flautist Aurèle Nicolet. Nicolet, who died earlier this year, was considered one of the world's greatest flute players of the late twentieth century. Several composers, including Takemitsu and Ligeti, wrote music especially for him, while Nicolet's pupils include Emmanuel Pahud, Michael Faust and Thierry Fischer. Nicolet was principal flautist in the Berlin Philharmonic during the 1950s, but enjoyed a highly successful career as a soloist as well. Throughout the week Sarah explores his vast recording legacy, featuring Nicolet as soloist in concertos by Mozart, CPE Bach, Couperin and Moscheles, and as a chamber musician in Debussy's Sonata for flute, viola and harp.

Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante, K.297b 
Aurèle Nicolet (flute)
Heinz Holliger (oboe)
Hermann Baumann (horn)
Klaus Thunemann (bassoon)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor).

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