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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: Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Chris Watson

Monday - Sarah Walker with Chris Watson

24/05/2017

Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Chris Watson

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Chris Watson

With Artist of the Week: mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, featured in music by Dowland.

With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Stravinsky: Violin Concerto; Artist of the Week: mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, featured performing Dowland.

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 our daily musical challenge. Two pieces of music are played together. Can you identify them? 

10am
Sarah's guest this week is one of the world's leading sound-recordists, Chris Watson. Chris started out as a musician, he was a founding member of the influential Sheffield-based experimental music group, Cabaret Voltaire, but he soon put the microphone to other uses enjoying a career recording sound for film, tv and radio. He has specialised in recording wildlife and natural phenomena, striving, in his words, to put the microphone where you can't put your ears. He has contributed to a number of David Attenborough documentaries in the Life and Frozen Planet series and has released albums of his field recordings. As well as discussing his work and life, Chris will be sharing some of his favourite classical music.

10.30am  
Music in Time: Modern 
Sarah visits the 1930s, a decade which saw a rush of great Violin Concertos from composers including Bartók, Berg, Britten, Walton and Stravinsky. Stravinsky's is a neoclassical concerto, looking back to music of the past, and each movement is announced with a chord he sketched on a napkin in a Parisian restaurant. 

11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the Swedish mezzo-soprano, Anne Sofie von Otter. She's regarded as one of the finest singers of her generation, celebrated for her work on stage and in recital. She won a Grammy Award for her recording of Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn and has been named Artist of the Year by both the International Record Critics Association and Gramophone. On the stage, she's renowned for her performances of Mozart, Handel and Richard Strauss, and in recital she excels in Romantic song. She has also collaborated with non-classical musicians such as Elvis Costello and Brad Mehldau. Sarah reflects this great diversity throughout the week with a selection encompassing intimate Dowland lute songs, song cycles by Robert Schumann and Ravel, and roles from opera and musical theatre. 

Dowland 
In darkness let me dwell; What if I never speed? 
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) 
Jakob Lindberg (lute).

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