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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 Maxwell Hutchinson

Monday - Sarah Walker with Maxwell Hutchinson

19/07/2017

Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Maxwell Hutchinson

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Maxwell Hutchinson

Proms Artist of the Week: Nicholas McGegan, conducting music by Alessandro Scarlatti.

With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music on Location: Josef Suk's Praga; Proms Artist of the Week: Nicholas McGegan, featured conducting music by Alessandro Scarlatti.

9am  
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.  
  
9.30  
Take part in today's musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify a mystery musical object. 

10am 
Sarah's guest this week is the architect and broadcaster Maxwell Hutchinson. Maxwell was a practising architect for many years and in 1989 became the youngest-ever President of RIBA, the Royal Institute of British Architects. He's become one of the foremost broadcasters on architecture, presenting series on BBC Two, Channel Four and BBC Radio London. At one point Maxwell considered becoming a musician and has written three musicals and a Requiem Mass. In the last few years Maxwell has been ordained and is currently a curate at a church in Essex. As well discussing his work, his music and his life, throughout the week Maxwell will be sharing some of his favourite classical music.

10.30
Music on Location: Prague 
Sarah introduces Praga by Josef Suk, which reflects on the history of Prague, conjuring up the city on the banks of the Vltava and the legendary heroine Libuse, who founded the city. 

11am 
Sarah's Proms Artist of the Week is the conductor, Nicholas McGegan. McGegan has been hailed as "one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation" (The Independent) and has been director of the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale for over 30 years. McGegan has also devoted much of his time to opera; he was Artistic Director of the Göttingen Handel Festival for 20 years and Principal Guest Conductor at Scottish Opera in the 1990s. As a guest conductor he's worked with orchestras around the world including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony, Halle, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. During the week Sarah will be featuring McGegan's recordings of Haydn's Symphony No.57, Mozart's Piano Concerto in F major, K459 with Melvyn Tan, and excerpts from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Alessandro Scarlatti's Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia. McGegan is also a flautist and Sarah's chosen his recording of CPE Bach's Flute Quartet in D, Wq.94, with Catherine Mackintosh, Anthony Pleeth and Christopher Hogwood. 

A. Scarlatti 
Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia: Deus in adiutorium; Cantantibus organis; Dixit Dominus 
Susanne Rydén & Dominique Labelle (sopranos) 
Ryland Angel (countertenor) 
Michael Slattery (tenor) 
Neal Davies (baritone & cantor) 
Philharmonia Chorale 
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra 
Nicholas McGegan (conductor).

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