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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 - Rob Cowan with Clive Myrie

Monday - Rob Cowan with Clive Myrie

09/08/2017

Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Clive Myrie

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Clive Myriesearch

Rob Cowan's guest is BBC News presenter and correspondent Clive Myrie.

Discover definitive recordings of classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. His guest is BBC News presenter and correspondent Clive Myrie.

9am 
Rob 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 - identify a piece of music played in reverse

10am 
Rob's guest this week is the BBC News presenter and correspondent Clive Myrie. Clive is one of the regular evening presenters on the BBC News Channel and News at Ten, and has worked in broadcast news and journalism throughout his career, almost exclusively for the BBC. He started out in local news before becoming a foreign correspondent, being posted to Japan, America, France and Africa. Since becoming one of the BBC's main anchors in London, he has continued to make special reports about subjects ranging from Barack Obama to wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan. As well as discussing his life and work, Clive shares some of his favourite classical music throughout the week, including pieces he played as a teenager in his local youth orchestra by Schubert and Mussorgsky. 

10.30 
Music on Location: Scotland 
This week Rob explores music connected with Scotland. Today, Malcolm Arnold's affectionate suite of Four Scottish Dances inspired by the traditional strathspey, reel, and fling, as well as Hebridean songs. 

Proms Artist of the Week: John Wilson
Rob's Proms Artist of the Week is the British conductor John Wilson. Wilson is celebrated for his on-stage charisma and has been applauded repeatedly for the rich and colourful sounds that he draws from orchestras in repertoire ranging from the core classical through to the twentieth century. Wilson has conducted many of the leading British orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and has made a number of recordings with the BBC Concert Orchestra. This week he brings The John Wilson Orchestra to the BBC Proms, and earlier in the season he conducted his first Prom as Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Rob has chosen to feature Wilson's recordings of music by Edward German, Arnold Bax, Copland and Gershwin, as well as Eric Coates's take on a song by Richard Rodgers. 

Gershwin 
An American in Paris: Main Titles; 'Love is Here to Stay' 
Curtis Stigers (singer) 
The John Wilson Orchestra 
John Wilson (conductor)

Producer Richard Denison.

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