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Essential Classics Episodes

  1. Thursday - Sarah Walker with Chris Riddell

    Artist of the Week: Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin, in Janacek's On an Overgrown Path (Bk 1).

  2. Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Chris Riddell

    Artist of the Week: pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin, featured playing his own compositions.

  3. Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Chris Riddell

    Includes Artist of the Week: pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin, featured in Mozart's Sonata, K330

  4. Monday - Sarah Walker with Chris Riddell

    With Artist of the Week: pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin, featured in Schumann's Waldszenen.

  5. Friday - Sarah Walker with Tony Visconti

    Artists of the Week: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, featured in Bach's Keyboard Concerto No 1

  6. Thursday - Sarah Walker with Tony Visconti

    Including Artists of the Week: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, in Mozart's Symphony No 41.

  7. Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Tony Visconti

    Including Bizet's L'Arlesienne Suite No 2 and Telemann's Overture in D (Tafelmusik).

  8. Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Tony Visconti

    Artists of the Week: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, in Haydn's Cello Concerto in C, H VIIb 1.

  9. Monday - Sarah Walker with Tony Visconti

    Including Artists of the Week: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, in Bach's Orchestral Suite No 4

  10. Friday - Rob Cowan with Tom Conti

    With Rob Cowan. Including Beethoven: Agnus Dei (Missa Solemnis). Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata

  11. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Tom Conti

    With Rob Cowan. Including Biber's Rosary Sonatas and Chopin's Cello Sonata in G minor.

  12. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Tom Conti

    With Rob Cowan. Including Kodaly's Psalmus Hungaricus and Brahms's Cello Sonata No 2.

  13. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Tom Conti

    With Rob Cowan. Including music by Mahler and Beethoven.

  14. Monday - Rob Cowan with Tom Conti

    With Rob Cowan. Including J Strauss II's The Blue Danube and Shostakovich's Cello Sonata.

  15. Friday - Rob Cowan with Lee Child

    With Rob Cowan. Includes Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra and a Beethoven's piano sonata.

  16. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Lee Child

    With Rob Cowan. Includes Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and Schumann's Dichterliebe

  17. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Lee Child

    With Rob Cowan. Including Debussy's Pagodes and Chopin's Piano Sonata No 2, Op 35.

  18. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Lee Child

    With Rob Cowan. Including Verdi: Nabucco (excerpt) and Schumann: Kreisleriana.

  19. Monday - Rob Cowan with Lee Child

    With Rob Cowan. Including Vladimir Horowitz (piano) performing music by Liszt.

  20. Friday - Sarah Walker with Tamsin Greig

    With Sarah Walker. Including Chopin's Piano Concerto No 1 and Brahms's Symphony No 3.

  21. Thursday - Sarah Walker with Tamsin Greig

    With an excerpt from Weber's Der Freischutz and Haydn's Symphony No 6.

  22. Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Tamsin Greig

    Sarah Walker with Auber's Overture to La muette de Portici and Mozart's Coronation Mass.

  23. Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Tamsin Greig

    Sarah Walker with Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique and Shostakovich's Symphony No 15.

  24. Monday - Sarah Walker with Tamsin Greig

    With Sarah Walker. Including Schubert's Trio in B flat, D471, and Sibelius's Symphony No 2

  25. Friday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey

    Including Wagner's Pilgrims' Chorus (Tannhauser), plus the BBC Singers live in Bristol.

  26. Thursday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey

    Including the Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus in Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe (excerpts).

  27. Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey

    With Sarah Walker. Including the Bach Choir in Bach's St Matthew Passion (excerpt).

  28. Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey

    Music by Palestrina, plus Edinburgh Festival Chorus in excerpts from Mendelssohn's Elijah.

  29. Monday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey

    Including Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius (Part 1), with the Huddersfield Choral Society.

  30. Friday - Rob Cowan with Malorie Blackman

    Including Artist of the Week: Suk Trio, featured in Schubert's Piano Trio in B flat, D898.

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