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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 - Rob Cowan with Ken Hom

Monday - Rob Cowan with Ken Hom

30/03/2017

Thursday - Rob Cowan with Ken Hom

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With Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider, featured performing Nielsen's Violin Concerto.

With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Satie's Parade; Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider, featured performing Nielsen's Violin Concerto.

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: listen to the clues and identify a mystery musical person. 

10am
Rob's guest this week is the American chef, author and TV presenter Ken Hom. Whilst studying at Berkeley University, where he undertook studies in History of Art and French History, Ken began to give cooking lessons to fund his education. He soon realised that he wanted to make it his career and started teaching at a school for professional chefs in San Francisco. During his career Ken has published over 35 best-selling books on cookery, presented TV shows including Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery and Take on the Takeaway, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest authorities on Asian cooking. In 2009 he was appointed an honorary OBE for 'services to culinary arts'. As well as discussing his life and work, Ken has chosen a selection of his favourite classical music.

10.30am 
Music in Time: Modern 
Today Rob's in the Modern period with a work by one of music's most eccentric characters: Erik Satie. Famous for his Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes, much of Satie's work is infused with an anarchic, Bohemian spirit, not least his madcap ballet of 1917, Parade. 

Double Take 
Rob explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences between two interpretations of "Il mio tesoro", an aria from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni - one by Jussi Björling and one by John McCormack.

11am 
Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider 
Rob's Artist of the Week is the violinist and conductor Nikolaj Znaider. Feted in particular for the quality of his tone and his musical sensitivity, Znaider plays a Guarneri del Gesu violin, built in 1741 and previously played by the legendary violinist Fritz Kreisler. Znaider's performances and recordings regularly earn critical acclaim across the globe; they include accounts of violin concertos by Elgar, Korngold, Prokofiev and Nielsen - all of which feature this week on Essential Classics. As well as maintaining a busy career as a violin virtuoso, Znaider is passionate about supporting the next generation of musical talent, and spent ten years as Founder and Artistic Director of the annual Nordic Music Academy summer school. 

Nielsen 
Violin Concerto 
Nikolaj Znaider (violin) 
London Philharmonic Orchestra 
Lawrence Foster (conductor).

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