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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 - Rob Cowan with Simon Callow

Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Simon Callow

06/02/2017

Monday - Rob Cowan with Simon Callow

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Including Artist of the Week: Thomas Beecham, featured conducting Delius's Brigg Fair.

With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Mozart's Trio in E flat, K498 'Kegelstatt'; Artist of the Week: Thomas Beecham, featured conducting Delius's Brigg Fair.

9am
Rob 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
Rob's guest is the actor, writer and director Simon Callow. Sir Laurence Olivier gave Simon his first theatre job - in the box office of the National Theatre - and after that the young Callow soon found his way onto the stage, first coming to prominence playing Mozart in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus. He has since become one of the UK's best-loved actors, not only on the stage, but in TV series such as Chance in a Million, and films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral. Simon is often referred to as a writer who acts, having produced not only books about his own life as an actor, but also biographies of Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Orson Welles and most recently Richard Wagner. During the week Simon discusses all this and more and chooses music by Sibelius, Grainger, Mozart and Wagner.

10.30am 
Music in Time: Classical 
Rob places Music and Time. Today he heads back to the Classical period, his destination, Vienna in 1786, for a piece sometimes said to have been composed during a game of skittles: Mozart's Trio in E flat Major, K498, nicknamed the 'Kegelstatt' and written for the unprecedented combination of clarinet, viola and piano.

11am 
Artist of the Week: Sir Thomas Beecham
'The Beecham Touch' is an epithet for all that is stylish, delicate, mischievous and spontaneous in conducting. Sir Thomas was the living embodiment of charm, genuine authenticity (in that he conducted from the heart as well as from the head) and a sense of theatre that could leave an audience breathless with excitement. Rob's selection of Beecham recordings ranges from Handel and Haydn to Delius and Sibelius, all of them 'first-loves' for this most charismatic of conductors. 

Frederick Delius 
Brigg Fair 
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 
Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor).

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