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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: Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Hugh Sykes

Monday - Sarah Walker with Hugh Sykes

01/02/2017

Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Hugh Sykes

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Artists of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, featured in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6.

With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Haydn's Symphony No 2; Artists of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, featured in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6.

9am
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?

10am 
Sarah's guest this week is the award-winning broadcast journalist Hugh Sykes. Hugh began working in radio in the early 1970s, then after a stint in local TV he spent ten years on BBC Radio 4's Today programme. He went on to front PM on Radio 4 and his reporting has taken him all over the world, from China and Palestine to South Africa and Northern Ireland. He talks to Sarah about the dangers and delights of delivering features from the front line and chooses a selection of his favourite classical music. 


10.30
Music in Time: Classical
Today Sarah is in the Classical period, focusing on the distinctive sound of the early orchestra - without flutes or clarinets - in Haydn's Symphony No.2.

11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is one of America's finest orchestras, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble renowned especially for the warm sound of its impressive brass section. Every day this week Sarah will be showcasing recordings the orchestra has made with some of the most celebrated conductors of the twentieth century, including a classic account of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, conducted by Fritz Reiner. Other highlights are Brahms' Fourth Symphony with Daniel Barenboim, Strauss's epic tone poem Ein Heldenleben with Bernard Haitink, Rafael Kubelik in Mozart's 'Prague' Symphony, and Georg Solti conducting Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.6 'Pathétique'.

Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.6 'Pathétique'
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor).

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