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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: Friday with Suzy Klein - Patrick Gale, Roman letters, In the Hall of the Mountain King

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Friday with Suzy Klein - Patrick Gale, Roman letters, In the Hall of the Mountain King

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Friday with Suzy Klein - Patrick Gale, Roman letters, In the Hall of the Mountain King

Suzy Klein with the best in classical music.

Suzy Klein with the best in classical music, plus guest, author Patrick Gale

Suzy Klein with Essential Classics - the best in classical music. 

0915 New releases of music by Salieri and Michael Haydn

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today's starter is In the Hall of the Mountain King from Grieg's music for Peer Gynt.

1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history, with Eleanor Barraclough and a pile of correspondence from Roman Times, by turns fascinating and mundane.

1050 Suzy’s guest this week is the writer Patrick Gale, whose latest novel “Take Nothing With You” is out now. He’ll be sharing his favourite cultural inspirations.  

1130 Slow Moment - featuring music by Karl Goldmark

Suzy's music today also includes Richard Strauss's dramatic tone poem Macbeth, a Bach motet beautifully realised by Voces8, and a concerto for theremin and orchestra by the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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