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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 - Alpesh Chauhan, Dowland's Lachrimae pavan, Stockhausen's Gruppen

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Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Alpesh Chauhan, Dowland's Lachrimae pavan, Stockhausen's Gruppen

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Alpesh Chauhan, Dowland's Lachrimae pavan, Stockhausen's Gruppen

Ian Skelly with the best in classical music.

Ian Skelly  with the best in classical music, plus guest, the conductor Alpesh Chauhan.

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

0930 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Today, revel in Elizabethan melancholy with Dowland's Lachrimae Pavan. Other musical highlights include Doreen Carwithen's sweeping overture Bishop Rock, and a sunny sonata for piano duet by Mozart.

1010 Our Classical Century - 100 key moments in the last century of classical music. Gillian Moore on Stochkausen's Gruppen

1050 Cultural inspirations from our guest of the week, the conductor Alpesh Chauhan.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection: Owain Park's choral gem Ave maris stella.

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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