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9am
My favourite... British string music. We'll hear a mixture of favourites including Elgar's Serenade for Strings and the Fantasia on Greensleeves by Vaughan Williams, along with lesser-known works by Charles Avison and Frederick Delius.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: trace the classical theme behind a well-known song.

10am
Sarah's special guest, especially for the week of 大象传媒 Music Day, is the musician, composer and broadcaster Guy Garvey. He's the front man of rock band Elbow, who have released six studio albums, won the Mercury Music Prize, headlined at Glastonbury and performed a specially written song for the closing of the 2012 Olympics in London. Guy also released a solo album last year, which reached the top three of the album charts. He's won Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting and presents his own programme 'The Finest Hour' on 大象传媒 6 Music. Every day at 10am Guy will be choosing a selection of his favourite classical music including pieces by Puccini, Fran莽aix and Mendelssohn.

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah features a piece from the 大象传媒4 series Revolution & Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century. She reveals the virtuosity of Paganini's dramatic writing for violin in a selection of his caprices, including the most well known, number 24. This was known for years as the most fiendishly difficult violin piece ever written, and dozens of composers were inspired to use it as the theme for sets of variations - from Liszt and Rachmaninov to Andrew Lloyd Webber.

11am
In the week of 大象传媒 Music Day, a UK-wide celebration of everything we love about music, Sarah features choral societies from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales including the Huddersfield Choral Society, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus and the Treorchy Male Voice Choir.

J.S. Bach
St Matthew Passion (excerpt)
Felicity Lott (soprano)
Alfreda Hodgson (contralto)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Bach Choir
Thames Chamber Orchestra
David Willcocks.