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Your perfect Sunday soundtrack

Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you’re pottering around the house or sitting in the sunshine.

Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh.

Today, Sarah’s selections include one of Grieg’s greatest duets, an elegant sonata by Corelli, and a burst of Energy from Marianna Martines.

There’s also choral music by Lobo, Bruckner, and Icelandic band Sigur Rós.

Plus, Sarah finds the link between Henry Purcell and Hania Rani...

A Tandem Production for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

3 hours

Last on

Sun 1 Sep 2024 09:00

Music Played

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Gloria in D Major, RV 589 (III. Laudamus te)

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Singer: Deborah Norman. Singer: Sarah Fox. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Vivaldi: Gloria, RV 589 - Dixit Dominus, RV 594 & Magnificat, RV 610.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    8 Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, No. 4 in F Major (Tempo di minuetto)

    Conductor: Iván Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra.
    • Dvorak: Slavonic Dances; Miniatures.
    • Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd..
    • 4.
  • VítÄ›zslava Kaprálová

    Sparks from Ashes, Op. 5 - I. Those Old Songs Sound in my Soul

    Performer: Timothy Cheek. Singer: Dana Burešová.
    • SUPROPHON.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Arabesque for clarinet in B flat and piano

    Performer: Davide Bandieri. Performer: Guillaume Hersperger.
    • L'Esprit des Six.
    • CLAVES RECORDS.
    • 16.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 26 in D Major, K. 537 "Coronation" (I. Allegro)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart: The Complete Piano Concertos.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt-Suite Nr. 1, Op. 46: III. Anitra's Dance

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • Grieg: Orchestral Music (Peer Gynt Suite).
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
  • Eugène Bozza

    Scherzo for Wind Quintet Op.48

    Performer: Galliard Ensemble.
    • Jeux d’ete.
    • Deux-Elles.
    • 5.
  • ´³Ã³²Ô²õ¾±

    Fljótavík (Arr. Lawson for Ensemble)

    Composer: Georg Hólm. Composer: Kjartan Sveinsson. Composer: Orri Páll Dýrason. Lyricist: ´³Ã³²Ô²õ¾±. Lyricist: Georg Hólm. Lyricist: Kjartan Sveinsson. Lyricist: Orri Páll Dýrason. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Fljótavík (Arr. Lawson for Ensemble).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • John Field

    Nocturne No. 3 in A-Flat Major, H. 26

    Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • Field: Piano Music, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64: II. Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • Beethoven · Tchaikovsky · Schmidt · Stephan.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 2.
  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra - I. Allegro con spirito

    Performer: Narciso Yepes. Conductor: Luis Antonio García Navarro. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • English Chamber Orchestra - Great Recordings.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 20.
  • Alonso Lobo

    Versa est in Luctum

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Johann Valentin Rathgeber

    Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 19 (I. Allgero II. Adagio III. Allegro)

    Ensemble: Capella Regia Praha. Director: Robert Hugo.
    • Jacob: Missa dei filii. Music from 18th Century Prague.
    • SUPRAPHON a.s..
    • 27.
  • Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

    3 Morceaux, Op. 15 (III. Humoresque)

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Music Arranger: Jarle Storlokken. Ensemble: tenThing.
    • She Composes Like A Man.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 11.
  • Robert Schumann

    6 Studies in Canonic Form, Op. 56 - (I. Nicht zu schnell)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • From Afar.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Travel Royal - Suite

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Doreen Carwithen: Film Music.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 13.
  • Henry Purcell

    Sound the trumpet (Come ye sons of art)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Singer: Christophe Dumaux. Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Stefano Montanari.
    • O Solitude: Andreas Scholl, Accademia Bizantina.
    • Decca.
  • Hania Rani

    Glass

    Performer: Hania Rani.
    • Matthew Halsall t/a Gondwana Records.
  • Marianna Martines

    Psalm 110: I. Dixit Dominus

    Conductor: Wolfgang Brunner. Ensemble: Salzburger Hofmusik.
    • Martines: Symphony in C Major, Psalms 110 & 151.
    • CPO.
    • 101.
  • Jean Françaix

    Clarinet Concerto (III. Andantino)

    Performer: Paolo Beltramini. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Alain Lombard.
    • Francaix, Nielsen: Clarinet Concertos.
    • Brilliant Classics Licensing BV.
    • 03.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite No 4 in D minor: Sarabande

    Ensemble: Jupiter. Conductor: Thomas Dunford.
    • Eternal Heaven.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 12.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Highland Fling (Scottish Dances Op.59)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Malcolm Arnold: Dances: Philharmonia, Thomson.
    • Chandos.
    • 12.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Partie (Suite) in E Minor - Ciaccona

    Performer: Hendrik Bouman. Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • DG.
  • John Barry

    Deep Quest Saved (Raise the Titanic)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nic Raine.
    • Raise the Titanic.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 12.
  • Franz Lehár

    Die lustige Witwe (Act 2 - Vilja-Lied)

    Lyricist: Victor Léon. Lyricist: Leo Stein. Singer: Renée Fleming. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Renée Fleming - The Beautiful Voice.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Sonata in E Minor, Op. 2, No. 4

    Performer: Simon Standage. Performer: Micaela Comberti. Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Performer: Anthony Pleeth.
    • Corelli: Trio Sonatas Op. 1 No.1; Op. 2 No. 6; Op. 1 No. 9; Op. 2 No. 9; Op. 1 N.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 6.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano (III. Rondo. Tres vif)

    Performer: Axel Benoit. Performer: Benjamin Engeli. Performer: Maria Sournatcheva. Ensemble: Ensemble Confoederatio.
    • Poulenc: Wind Music.
    • Dabringhaus Und Grimm Audiovision GmBH.
    • 15.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Pange lingua

    Choir: Choir of St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. Conductor: Duncan Ferguson. Ensemble: Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama Brass Ensemble.
    • Bruckner Motets.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 10.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Sonata for Violin and Piano (II. Blues / Moderato)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • Ravel - Chamber Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Claude Debussy

    Rondes de printemps (Images)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Debussy: Images etc..
    • EMI.
    • 8.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11

    Music Arranger: Jorge Rotter. Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • Brahms: Serenades No. 1 & 2.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 102.

Broadcast

  • Sun 1 Sep 2024 09:00