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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 with Ian Skelly - Sakari Oramo, Elizabethan scandal, Gianni Schicchi

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Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Sakari Oramo, Elizabethan scandal, Gianni Schicchi

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Sakari Oramo, Elizabethan scandal, Gianni Schicchi

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

Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music. 

0915 New releases, featuring music by Korngold and Gottschalk.

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today's starter is Lauretta's famous aria O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi. Other music in today's programme includes Brahms' Song of Destiny, Peter Warlock's Serenade - a birthday gift to Frederick Delius, and a rarely heard concerto for two pianos by the American composer Harl McDonald.

1010 Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history. Nandini Das examines a scandal from the Court of Elizabeth I.

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 with music by Hildegard of Bingen.

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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