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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: Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Maggi Hambling

Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Maggi Hambling

22/02/2017

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Including Artists of the Week: London Sinfonietta, featured performing Tavener's The Whale

With Sarah Walker. Includes Musical challenge; Music in Time: Bartok's Mikrokosmos; Artists of the Week: London Sinfonietta, featured performing Tavener's The Whale.

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 artist Maggi Hambling. In a career spanning nearly 50 years Maggi has made her mark in a number of fields, including painting, portraiture and sculpture. Her best-known piece is Scallop, which stands on Aldeburgh beach in Suffolk, and is dedicated to the town's most celebrated son, Benjamin Britten. Another of her sculptures, A Conversation with Oscar Wilde, was the first public monument dedicated to the playwright and novelist. Maggi's portraits include those of fellow artist Francis Bacon and blues singer George Melly and recently, she's produced a number of extremely visceral paintings of waves, the result of daily walks on the Suffolk coast. As well as discussing her life and work, Maggi shares some of her favourite classical music, including Purcell, Britten and the synaesthetic composer Deborah Pritchard. 

10.30 
Music in Time: Modern 
Today Sarah is in the Modern period exploring Bartok's collection of piano pieces, Mikrokosmos, a brilliant example of how twentieth-century composers exploited the percussive capabilities of the instrument. 

11am
Artist of the Week: London Sinfonietta
Imbued with a mission to perform the best contemporary classical music, develop new work and nurture new talent, the London Sinfonietta are one of the most vibrant and exciting ensembles in the UK, and arguably the world. Since their first concert in 1968 - the world premiere of John Tavener's The Whale - the Sinfonietta have commissioned more than 300 works and premiered hundreds more. This week Sarah explores some of their finest recordings with music by composers including Gorecki, Stravinsky, Takemitsu, Harrison Birtwistle and John Tavener. 

Tavener 
The Whale 
London Sinfonietta 
David Atherton (conductor).

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