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Essential Classics Episodes

  1. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Jane Lapotaire

    Including Ockeghem: Requiem and Zoltan Kocsis in Wagner: Feierlicher Marsch (Parsifal).

  2. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Jane Lapotaire

    Including James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie and Bartok: Dance Suite.

  3. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Jane Lapotaire

    Including Spohr: Violin Concerto No 8 and Zoltan Kocsis in Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No 2.

  4. Monday - Rob Cowan with Jane Lapotaire

    Including Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana and Zoltan Kocsis in Debussy: Images, Set I.

  5. Friday - Sarah Walker with Antony Sher

    Including Francesco Landini: Questa fanciull', Amor and Mahler: Totenfeier.

  6. Thursday - Sarah Walker with Antony Sher

    Including Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks and Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4.

  7. Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Antony Sher

    Including Milhaud: La creation du monde and Haydn: Symphony No 49 in D minor.

  8. Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Antony Sher

    Including the English keyboard collection Parthenia and Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D.

  9. Monday - Sarah Walker with Antony Sher

    Including a piece by Henri Dutilleux and CPE Bach: Cello Concerto in A.

  10. Friday - Rob Cowan with Mark Anthony Turnage

    Including Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue and Pierre Monteux in Haydn: Symphony No 101.

  11. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Roxanna Panufnik

    Including a recording by David Munrow and Pierre Monteux in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4.

  12. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Max Richter

    Including Haydn: String Quartet and Pierre Monteux conducting Stravinsky's Petrushka.

  13. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Errollyn Wallen

    Including Berlioz: Love Scene (Romeo and Juliet) and Beethoven: Symphony No 2.

  14. Monday - Rob Cowan with Jonathan Dove

    Including Beethoven: Symphony No 5 and Pierre Monteux conducting Ravel: Ma mere l'oye.

  15. Friday - Sarah Walker with Alec Baldwin

    Including Five Reasons to Love the Waltz and a music-related challenge.

  16. Thursday - Sarah Walker with Alec Baldwin

    Including Haydn: Concerto in E flat and Beethoven: Piano Sonata in B flat.

  17. Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Alec Baldwin

    Including Webern: Symphony and Strauss: An Alpine Symphony.

  18. Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Alec Baldwin

    Including Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor and Ravel: String Quartet in F.

  19. Monday - Sarah Walker with Alec Baldwin

    Including Poulenc: Concerto in G minor and Bach: Christmas Oratorio (Part 1).

  20. Friday - Rob Cowan with John Craven

    Including Mozart: Divertimento in E flat and Grieg: Holberg Suite.

  21. Thursday - Rob Cowan with John Craven

    Including Schubert: Die schone Mullerin and Alfven: Swedish Rhapsody No 3 (Dalarapsodi).

  22. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with John Craven

    Including John Blow: Chaconne in G and Stenhammar: Symphony No 2.

  23. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with John Craven

    Including Machaut: Quant en moy and Kraus: Symphony in F.

  24. Monday - Rob Cowan with John Craven

    Including John Cage: Suite for Toy Piano and Nielsen: Symphony No 6 (Sinfonia semplice).

  25. Friday - Sarah Walker with Catherine Martin

    Including Tallis: Gloria (Missa Puer natus est) and Berwald: Symphony No 4.

  26. Thursday - Sarah Walker with Catherine Martin

    Including Mozart: Sonata No 16 in C and Nielsen: Wind Quintet.

  27. Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Catherine Martin

    Including Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces and Sinding: Piano Concerto.

  28. Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Catherine Martin

    Including Handel: Lascia ch'io pianga and Grieg: Symphonic Dances.

  29. Monday - Sarah Walker with Catherine Martin

    Including Chopin: Impromptu in G flat and Sibelius: Symphony No 1 in E minor.

  30. Friday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with guest Eddie Izzard

    With Sarah Walker. Includes Britten's A Boy Was Born and Stenhammar's Serenade in F, Op 31

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