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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: Thursday - Sarah Walker with Sarah Perry

International Women's Day - Sarah Walker with Sally Beamish and Sarah Perry

09/03/2017

Thursday - Sarah Walker with Sarah Perry

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Thursday - Sarah Walker with Sarah Perrysearch

Including Artist of the Week: violinist Tasmin Little, featured in Part's Fratres.

With Sarah Walker. Musical challenge; Music in Time: Bach and Abel; Double Take: Debussy's Syrinx; Artist of the Week: violinist Tasmin Little, featured in Part's Fratres.

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: trace the classical theme behind a track from the world of pop music. 

10am
Sarah's guest in the week of International Women's Day is the author, academic and journalist Sarah Perry. Sarah was born into a deeply religious household and spent her early life immersed in classical music, classic literature and the King James Bible. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway which she completed under the supervision of Andrew Motion, and she's been a writer in residence at Gladstone's Library in Wales. Her travel writing about the Philippines earned her a Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize, her debut novel was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and her second, The Essex Serpent was named Waterstones Book of the Year. As well as discussing her writing and her life, Sarah shares some of her favourite classical music.

10.30am 
Music in Time: Baroque 
Today Sarah's in the Baroque period highlighting the composers who wrote for the viola da gamba, which by then was being superseded by more versatile string instruments. Sarah's chosen one of JS Bach's viola da gamba sonatas and music by Carl Friedrich Abel. 

Double Take 
Sarah explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two interpretations of Debussy's solo flute piece Syrinx, with contrasting recordings by Juliette Hurel and James Galway. 

11am
Artist of the Week: Tasmin Little 
Sarah's featured artist is the English violinist Tasmin Little. After studying at the Yehudi Menuhin School and reaching the final of BBC Young Musician of the Year, Tasmin made her professional debut with the Hallé. Since then she's been a major exponent of British music, recording concertos by Ernest Moeran, Frederick Delius and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending has become something of a signature piece. As well as featuring Tasmin's interpretations of British music, Sarah's chosen a sonata by Schubert, Arvo Pärt's Fratres and a recent work by Roxanna Panufnik, written especially for Tasmin.

Pärt
Fratres
Tasmin Little (violin)
Martin Roscoe (piano).

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