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A classical selection for Sunday

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re out walking your dog or staying cosy inside.

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.

Today, Sarah shares a radiant orchestral suite full of birdsong, and we hear a distinct spring in the step of Josef Myslivecek in a recording from the London Mozart Players.

There’s also satisfyingly scrunchy chromaticism from Biagio Marini, while the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir and Ensemble Allegria bring a Bach chorale to life.

Plus, Frans Van Ruth makes the piano sing with an enchanting composition by Gertrude van den Bergh.

A Tandem Production for 鶹Լ Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Sun 14 Jan 2024 09:00

Music Played

  • Gerald Finzi

    Five Bagatelles, Op. 23 (IV. Forlana)

    Performer: Amy Dickson. Music Arranger: Amy Dickson. Music Arranger: Lawrence Ashmore. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • DECCA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata for piano 4 hands in C major, K. 521 (I. Allegro)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Evgeny Kissin.
    • DG.
  • Concerto Caledonia

    Lady Madelina Gordon's Strathspey / Miss Nisbet of Dirleton's Reel

    • Songs of 鶹Լ and Distant Isles.
    • SELF RELEASED.
    • 15.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Sonata in A minor, BuxWV.272 (III. Passacaglia)

    Ensemble: La Rêveuse.
    • MIRARE.
  • Florence Price

    Dances in the Canebrakes

    Music Arranger: William Grant Still. Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • CEDILLE.
  • Marc‐Antoine Charpentier

    Te Deum, H.146

    Singer: Clément Debieuvre. Singer: Jean-Christophe Lanièce. Singer: David Witczak. Singer: Jehanne Amzal. Singer: François Joron. Singer: Eugénie Lefebvre. Ensemble: Ensemble Les Surprises. Conductor: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas.
    • ALPHA.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Birds

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Une sainte en son auréole (La Bonne Chanson, No. 1)

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Nils‐Erik Sparf. Performer: Ulf Forsberg. Performer: Matti Hirvikangas. Performer: Mats Lidström. Performer: Tomas Gertonsson. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.
    • DG.
  • Erik Satie

    Petite Ouverture a danser

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No 118, 'O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht'

    Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Ensemble: Ensemble Allegria. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • BIS.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet (Fantasy Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • WARNER.
  • George Onslow

    Wind Quintet in F major, Op.81 No.3 (IV Finale. Allegro Spiritoso)

    Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Augusta Holmès

    Pologne

    Orchestra: Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz. Conductor: Samuel Friedmann.
    • SWR.
  • Caroline Shaw

    and the swallow

    Ensemble: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • NAXOS.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Bartered Bride (Overture)

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Josef Myslivecek

    Symphony in A major, F 27

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    Cielo e mar (La Gioconda, Act II)

    Singer: Roberto Alagna. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • DG.
  • Max Bruch

    Concerto for clarinet and viola in E minor, Op.88 (II. Allegro moderato)

    Performer: Ecesu Sertesen. Performer: Kyoungmin Park. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • SONY.
  • Gertrude van den Bergh

    Lied for piano

    Performer: Frans van Ruth.
    • NM CLASSICS.
  • Pedro Elías Gutiérrez

    Alma Llanera

    Performer: John Williams. Performer: Alfonso Montes.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Gustav Holst

    A Song of the Night

    Performer: Lorraine McAslan. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Atherton.
    • LYRITA.
  • Biagio Marini

    Sinfonia sesto tuono, Op. 22

    Orchestra: Les Cris de Paris. Director: Geoffroy Jourdain.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • François Couperin

    La Commère (6th suite, Book 2)

    Performer: Iddo Bar-Shaï.
    • MIRARE.
  • George Gershwin

    Piano Concerto in F major (II. Adagio)

    Performer: Jon Nakamatsu. Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jeff Tyzik.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture & Rossignol (Overture (Suite) In G Major Twv.55:G2 "La Bizarre")

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • A Telemann Companion.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 19.

Broadcast

  • Sun 14 Jan 2024 09:00