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Essential Classics Episodes

  1. Monday - Sarah Walker with Louis de Bernières

    Including Artists of the Week: Brodsky Quartet, featured in Dvorak's String Quartet.

  2. Friday - Sarah Walker with David Gower

    Artist of the Week: clarinettist Martin Frost, featured in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A

  3. Thursday - Sarah Walker with David Gower

    Including Artist of the Week Martin Frost, in Debussy's Premiere rapsodie.

  4. Wednesday - Sarah Walker with David Gower

    Artist of the Week: clarinettist Martin Frost, featured in Brahms's Clarinet Quintet.

  5. Tuesday - Sarah Walker with David Gower

    Including Artist of the Week Martin Frost, in Saint-Saens's Clarinet Sonata.

  6. Monday - Sarah Walker with David Gower

    Including Artist of the Week: Martin Frost, featured in Crusell's Clarinet Concerto No 2.

  7. Friday - Rob Cowan with Liz Lochhead

    Including Artist of the Week Antal Dorati, featured conducting Beethoven's Symphony No 5.

  8. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Liz Lochhead

    Artist of the Week: Antal Dorati, featured conducting Koechlin's Les Bandar-Log, Op 176.

  9. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Liz Lochhead

    With Artist of the Week: Antal Dorati, featured conducting Bartok's Dance Suite, Sz 77.

  10. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Liz Lochhead

    Including Artist of the Week: Antal Dorati, featured conducting Schumann's Violin Concerto

  11. Monday - Rob Cowan with Liz Lochhead

    Artist of the Week: conductor Antal Dorati, featured in Tchaikovsky's Suite No 3 in G.

  12. Friday - Rob Cowan with Jane Lapotaire

    Including Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade and Zoltan Kocsis in Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23.

  13. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Jane Lapotaire

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

  14. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Jane Lapotaire

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

  15. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Jane Lapotaire

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

  16. Monday - Rob Cowan with Jane Lapotaire

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

  17. Friday - Sarah Walker with Antony Sher

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

  18. Thursday - Sarah Walker with Antony Sher

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

  19. Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Antony Sher

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

  20. Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Antony Sher

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

  21. Monday - Sarah Walker with Antony Sher

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

  22. Friday - Rob Cowan with Mark Anthony Turnage

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

  23. Thursday - Rob Cowan with Roxanna Panufnik

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

  24. Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Max Richter

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

  25. Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Errollyn Wallen

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

  26. Monday - Rob Cowan with Jonathan Dove

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

  27. Friday - Sarah Walker with Alec Baldwin

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

  28. Thursday - Sarah Walker with Alec Baldwin

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

  29. Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Alec Baldwin

    Including Webern: Symphony and Strauss: An Alpine Symphony.

  30. Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Alec Baldwin

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

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