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Essential Classics Episodes

  1. Monday - Rob Cowan with Samantha Bond

    Artists of the Week: Staatskapelle Dresden, featured performing Weber's Oberon Overture.

  2. Friday - Sarah Walker with Graeme Swann

    Proms Artist of the Week: Semyon Bychkov, featured conducting Mozart's Piano Concerto No 7

  3. Thursday - Sarah Walker with Graeme Swann

    With Proms Artist of the Week: Semyon Bychkov, featured conducting Poulenc's Les biches.

  4. Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Graeme Swann

    Proms Artist of the Week: Semyon Bychkov, who conducts Shostakovich's Symphony No 11.

  5. Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Graeme Swann

    Proms Artist of the Week: Semyon Bychkov, who conducts Wagner: Lohengrin (finale of Act 3)

  6. Monday - Sarah Walker with Graeme Swann

    With Sarah Walker. With My Favourite Monteverdi Madrigals; Music in Time: William Cornysh.

  7. Friday - Sarah Walker with Sally Phillips

    Including Proms Artist of the Day: Collegium Vocale Gent, featured in music by Purcell.

  8. Thursday - Sarah Walker with Sally Phillips

    With Proms Artist of the Day: Truls Mork, featured in Miaskovsky's Cello Sonata No 1.

  9. Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Sally Phillips

    Proms Artist of the Day: Marin Alsop, conducting Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915.

  10. Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Sally Phillips

    Proms Artist of the Day: Stephen Hough, featured in Franck's Prelude, Aria and Finale.

  11. Monday - Sarah Walker with Sally Phillips

    Proms Artist of the Day: pianist Louis Lortie, featured in Chopin's Scherzo No 4 in E.

  12. Friday - Rob Cowan with Simon Sebag Montefiore

    Including Proms Artist of the Day: soprano Karita Mattila, featured in Sibelius: Luonnotar

  13. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Simon Sebag Montefiore

    With Rob Cowan. With Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw and music by Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

  14. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Simon Sebag Montefiore

    Proms Artist of the Day: pianist Martha Argerich, featured performing Ravel's Jeux d'eau.

  15. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Simon Sebag Montefiore

    Proms Artist of the Day: Mark Elder. With Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance Marches Nos 2 and 3

  16. Monday - Rob Cowan with Simon Sebag Montefiore

    Proms Artist of the Day: Thomas Ades, who conducts Couperin's Les barricades mysterieuses.

  17. Friday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

    Including Proms Artist: Paul Watkins (cello), in Martinu: Variations on a Slovak Folksong.

  18. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

    With Proms Artist of the Day: BBC NOW, performing Stravinsky's Scherzo fantastique.

  19. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

    Proms Artist of the Day: Hakan Hardenberger, featured in Telemann's Trumpet Concerto.

  20. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

    Proms Artist: Esa-Pekka Salonen, featured conducting Beethoven's Leonore Overture No 2.

  21. Monday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

    Proms Artist of the Day: Thomas Dausgaard, conducting Schubert: Overture (Die Zauberharfe)

  22. Friday - Rob Cowan with Garry Richardson

    Proms Artist of the Week: cellist Alban Gerhardt, in Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto, Op 125

  23. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Garry Richardson

    Including Proms Artist of the Week: Alban Gerhardt, featured in Alkan's Cello Sonata in E.

  24. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Garry Richardson

    With Proms Artist of the Week: Alban Gerhardt, featured in Reger's Cello Suite No 3.

  25. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Garry Richardson

    Proms Artist of the Week: cellist Alban Gerhardt, in Enescu's Symphonie concertante, Op 8.

  26. Monday - Rob Cowan with Garry Richardson

    Proms Artist of the Week: cellist Alban Gerhardt, featured in Faure's Cello Sonata No 1.

  27. Friday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with Alistair McGowan

    Artist of the Week: Sarah Connolly, featured in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (final scene).

  28. Thursday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with Alistair McGowan

    Includes Artist of the Week: Sarah Connolly, featured in Schumann's Frauenliebe und -leben

  29. Wednesday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with Alistair McGowan

    Proms Artist of the Week: mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, featured in music by Handel.

  30. Tuesday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with Alistair McGowan

    With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: Sarah Connolly, in Brahms and Hahn.

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