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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 with Ian Skelly - Churchillian drift

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09/08/2018

Thursday with Ian Skelly - Churchillian drift

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Thursday with Ian Skelly - Churchillian drift

Ian Skelly with the best in classical music.

Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music.  Today's music includes the Academic Festival Overture by Brahms, some waltzes by the "bad boy of music" George Antheil, and Nigel Kennedy playing a Bach violin concerto.
0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today - what would you pair with the "Fantasia on Greensleeves" by Vaughan Williams? 
1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history. Alun Withey investigates how many of Winston Churchill's famous quotations are actually by the great man himself.

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