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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: Monday with Ian Skelly - Brahms Intermezzo, dressing well, Sakari Oramo

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Monday with Ian Skelly - Brahms Intermezzo, dressing well, Sakari Oramo

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Monday with Ian Skelly - Brahms Intermezzo, dressing well, Sakari Oramo

Ian Skelly with the best in classical music.

Ian Skelly with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, the conductor Sakari Oramo

Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music, including an orchestral arrangement of Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales , an overture by Haydn's pupil Marianna Martines, and a gorgeous Ave Maria by Rachmaninov. 

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today we start with Brahms' emotive Intermezzo in A Major. 

1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history. John-Henry Clay with advice on how not to dress like a barbarian.

1050 This week Ian’s guest is Sakari Oramo,  the Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra,  the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra. He talks about some of the places, people and ideas that have inspired him throughout his life and career. 

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's contemplation.

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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