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Essential Classics
Tuesday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with Philippa Gregory
2 hours
on BBC Radio 3
With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Grieg Songs; Musical challenge; Proms Artist of the Week: flute player Emily Beynon, featured in Amy Beach's Theme and Variations. Show more
Live from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh, a concert featuring the St Lawrence Quartet. Golijov: Qohelet. Adams: First Quartet. Saint-Saens: String Quartet No 1 in E minor, Op 12. Show more
John Toal presents a solo piano recital by Barry Douglas. Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Op 35 (Book 2). Schubert: Sonata in A, D959. Show more
A Prom in which Juanjo Mena conducts the BBC Philharmonic and women's voices from the London Symphony Chorus. Foulds: Three Mantras. Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents music and guests from the arts world. With appearances from clarinettist Mark van de Wiel, composer Errollyn Wallen and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. Show more
Donald Macleod introduces music inspired by a princess and a symphony born in the stirring scenery of upper Austria. Plus one of Schubert's finest quartets. Show more
Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem and the world premiere of Raymond Yiu's Symphony, featuring Andrew Watts (countertenor). Show more
Christopher Cook is joined by Mikkel Zangenberg, Emily Beynon and Daniel Grimley to outline the compositional styles in Nielsen's concertos. Show more
Conclusion of a Prom in which Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra. With Nielsen's Flute Concerto, featuring soloist Emily Beynon, and Janacek's Sinfonietta. Show more
Matthew Sweet is joined by David Hepworth, Naomi Alderman, Kei Miller and Serena Kutchinsky to debate technology's impact on cultural taste. Are we now bolder or more risk-averse? Show more
Stephen Johnson explores the impact of Tomas Luis de Victoria's Lamentations on its first audiences in Counter-Reformation Rome. Show more
Max Reinhardt presents a varied selection of music. Show more
Jonathan Swain's selection features a performance of Gluck's opera Iphigenie en Tauride given in Poland. Show more
