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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 Hugh Sykes

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02/02/2017

Thursday - Sarah Walker with Hugh Sykes

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Artists of the Week: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, featured in Strauss's Ein Heldenleben

With Sarah Walker. Musical challenge; Music in Time: the dulcian; Artists of the Week: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, featured in Strauss's Ein Heldenleben.

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: name a piece of music used in a film or TV programme.

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. 

10.30am
Music in Time: Renaissance
Today Sarah is in the Renaissance period, exploring an early forerunner of the bassoon: the dulcian.

Double Take
Sarah explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two recordings of Debussy's prelude, La fille aux cheveux de lin.

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'.

Richard Strauss 
Ein Heldenleben
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor).

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