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Your perfect Sunday soundtrack

Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you’re putting up the Christmas tree or planning a late autumn walk.

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

Today some of Sarah’s choices have a festive flavour, including an Advent favourite by Lauridsen, a song with a flute solo suggesting the winding road to Bethlehem, and a journey on a three-horse sled depicted by Prokofiev.

There’s also a heart-warming arrangement of the Largo from Dvorak’s New World Symphony, Brahms sounds brooding yet uplifting, and Piazzolla at his most romantic.

Plus, a piece where the violin is really allowed to growl…

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63, 'See, the conqu'ring hero comes!'

    Lyricist: Thomas Morell.
    • The Classic Christmas Album.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 11.

  • Morten Lauridsen

    O magnum mysterium

    Composer: Trad.. Lyricist: Trad.. Conductor: Henri Chalet.
    • Notre-Dame - CathΓ©drale d'Γ©motions.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major, D 803 (3rd mvt, Allegro vivace)

    Ensemble: Schubert Ensemble of Budapest.
    • NAXOS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 7 in C Major, K 309 (2nd mvt, Andante)

    • Mozart: Piano Sonatas.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 20.

  • John Joubert

    Torches

    Lyricist: Trad.. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge.
    • On Christmas Night.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E Major, RV 270 "Il riposo per il Santissimo natale"

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    Symphony no.9 in E minor 'From the New World' (2nd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Martin Ellerby. Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Garry Cutt.
    • Classic Brass.
    • RCA/Sony Masterworks.
    • 11.

  • Anonymous

    Isaias Cecinit ('Isaiah Sang')

    Lyricist: Anonymous. Conductor: Paul Hillier. Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble.
    • Perotin.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 6.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Danza Gaya

    • Danza Gaya: Music for Two Pianos.
    • Lyrita.
    • 01.

  • Gustav Holst

    A Moorside Suite, H 173, 'March'

    Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • ENGLISH STRING MINIATURES, Vol. 4.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Teresa CarreΓ±o

    Florence (Deux esquisses italiennes, Op 33)

    Performer: Alexandra Oehler.
    • Teresa Carreno: Klavierwerke (Piano works).
    • ARS MUSICI.
    • 008.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Lieutenant Kije, Symphonic Suite, Op 60 ('Troika')

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme JΓ€rvi.
    • Chandos.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Helios Overture, Op 17

    Conductor: Jerzy Semkow. Orchestra: Royal Danish Orchestra.
    • Carl Nielsen - Helios Overture, Op. 17.
    • Vox.
    • 1.

  • Louis Vierne

    'Naiades' from Fantasy Pieces, Suite No 4

    Performer: Olivier Latry.
    • BNL.

  • Michael Head

    The Little Road to Bethlehem

    Conductor: Edward Higginbottom. Choir: New College Choir, Oxford.
    • Nativitas.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 8.

  • Claude Debussy

    'Footprints in the Snow' (from Préludes, Book 1, No 6)

    • The Complete Debussy: PrΓ©ludes pour solo piano.
    • Signum Records.
    • 6.

  • Traditional Canadian

    Huron Carol

    Music Arranger: Eleanor Daley. Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • Signum.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Lyudmila (Overture)

    Lyricist: Valerian Shirkin. Lyricist: Aleksandr Pushkin. Conductor: Georg Solti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Famous Overtures.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.

  • John Dowland

    The Frog Galliard

    • Dowland, J.: Lute Music, Vol. 4 - The Queen's Galliard.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schmidt

    Notre Dame ('Intermezzo')

    Lyricist: Leopold Wilk. Conductor: Paavo JΓ€rvi. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony.
    • Franz Schmidt: Complete Symphonies.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 8.

  • Trad.

    The Angel Gabriel (Arr. for Harp by Graham Fitkin)

    • The Three Harps of Christmas.
    • GFR.
    • 1.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E-Flat Major, H 277 (2nd mvt, Allegretto)

    • GFN Classics.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Flute Sonata in E flat major, BWV 1031 (1st mvt)

    Performer: James Galway. Performer: Phillip Moll. Performer: Sarah Cunningham.
    • J.S. Bach Flute Sonatas James Galway Phillip Moll Sarah Cunningham.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 19.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Libertango (Arr. Milone for Trumpet and Orchestra)

    Music Arranger: Julian Milone. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • The Sound of Piazzolla.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Pauline Viardot

    Violin Sonatina in A Minor (3rd mvt, Allegro finale)

    • Pauline Viardot: Violin Sonatina - Paul Viardot: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Stevie Wishart

    O Virtus Sapientie Alio Modo

    Lyricist: Stevie Wishart. Conductor: Stevie Wishart. Choir: Sinfonye.
    • Hildegard (Hildegard Von Bingen).
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 5.

  • Louise Bertin

    La Esmeralda, Act II: Quintette et chΕ“ur ('Oh l'adorable crΓ©ature!')

    Lyricist: Victor Hugo. Conductor: Lawrence Foster. Orchestra: OpΓ©ra Orchestre national de Montpellier Occitanie.
    • Bertin: La Esmeralda.
    • Universal Music Division Decca Records France.
    • 15.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata No 19 in G minor, Op 49 No 1

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68 (4th mvt, Adagio - Allegro)

    Conductor: Lorin Maazel. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4; Overtures; Haydn Variations.
    • Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd..
    • 4.

  • Miles Davis

    Generique

    • Ascenseur pour l'Γ©chafaud.
    • Supreme Media.
    • 1.

  • Fini Henriques

    Myggedans

    Music Arranger: Hans Palmqvist. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Magnus Ericsson.
    • BIS.

  • CristΓ³bal de Morales

    Missa Quaeramus cum pastoribus ('Credo')

    Conductor: Rory McCleery.
    • Christmas with the Shepherds: Morales, Mouton & Stabile.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 5.

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  • Sun 8 Dec 2024 09:00
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