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Sarah Walker with an inspiring musical mix

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

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

Today, Sarah explores expressive and curious sounds, with an unusual piece for winds and piano by Saint-Saens and a hypnotic symphony by Haydn that appears to have its first two movements the wrong way round.

She also finds gentleness in a fantasy for piano based on a sentimental Irish folk song, and fun but weird music that, despite being written in the 14th century, sounds as if it could be a Dalek’s favourite tune.

Plus, the sparkling musical skill of jazz vocalist and pianist Shirley Horn.

A Tandem Production for ѿý Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Music Played

  • Nicola Matteis

    Diverse Bizzarie sopra la Vecchia Sarabana o pur Ciaccona

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • ALPHA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Regina Coeli, K. 276

    Choir: Chamber Choir of Europe. Orchestra: South German Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicol Matt.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Caprice sur des airs danois et russes Op.79

    Performer: Catherine Cantin. Performer: Maurice Bourgue. Performer: Michel Portal. Performer: Pascal Rogé.
    • French Chamber Music.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.
  • Jonathan Dove

    Gaia Theory - II - Very Spacious

    Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Josep Pons.
    • NMC.
  • Anon.

    Retrove

    Performer: Peter Skuce.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Anonymous

    Dance (English, 13th century)

    Ensemble: The Dufay Collective.
    • Miri It Is.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.
  • Emilie Mayer

    Symphony No. 2 in E minor - I - Un poco Adagio - Allegro Assai

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leo McFall.
    • CPO.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in A flat major, Op. 23 No. 8 - Allegro Vivace

    Performer: Sergei Babayan.
    • DG.
  • Georges Bizet

    Roma Orchestral Suite No. 3 - IV - Allegro vivacissimo

    Conductor: Paavo Järvi. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie.
    • SIGNUM.
  • John Taylor

    The Longest Day (reprise)

    Performer: Azimuth.
    • ECM.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 21 in A major

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • DELOS.
  • Teena Lyle

    Missa Petrus et Orbis - II - Gloria

    Composer: Teena Lyle. Composer: John Duggan. Performer: Tom Winpenny. Singer: Janet Coxwell. Conductor: Matthew Berry. Singer: Emily Coatsworth. Singer: Joanna Forbes. Singer: Patrick Craig. Singer: Sarah Coatsworth. Singer: Martha McLorinan. Singer: John Duggan. Singer: Matthew Vine. Singer: David Lee. Singer: Charles Pott. Singer: Stephen Kennedy.
    • BANDCAMP.
  • Nicolas Vallet

    Suite for four lutes

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Performer: Nigel North. Performer: Paul O’Dette. Performer: Robert Meunier.
    • Three, Four and Twenty Lutes, Lindberg etc..
    • BIS.
    • 10.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Preludio Sinfonico, Op. 1

    Orchestra: Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala, Milano. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • SONY.
  • Franz Danzi

    Wind Quintet in G minor, Op. 56 No. 2 - IV - Allegretto

    Performer: Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin.
    • BIS.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Fantasy: The Last Rose of Summer

    Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • NAXOS.
  • Bill Withers

    Gra'ma's Hands

    Performer: Shirley Horn. Performer: Billy Hart. Singer: Buster Williams.
    • STEEPLECHASE.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Rosary Sonata IV - The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple (Ciacona)

    Performer: Andrew Manze. Performer: Richard Egarr.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Overture for orchestra

    Orchestra: Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Łukasz Borowicz.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Josquin des Prez

    Ave Maria

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • COLLEGIUM.
  • Ólafur Arnalds

    Reminiscence

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott. Performer: Viktor Orri Árnason. Performer: Björk Óskarsdóttir. Performer: Porarinn Baldursson. Performer: Unnur Jónsdóttir. Performer: Hallgrímur Jónas Jensson. Performer: Mari Samuelsen.
    • MERCURY.
  • Tor Aulin

    Swedish Dance No. 4, Op. 32 - Molto vivace

    Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Niklas Willén.
    • STERLING.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 850 (Book 1, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Gary Cooper.
    • Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1.
    • ASV Digital.
    • 9-10.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The pines of the Appian Way (Pines of Rome)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

Broadcast

  • Sun 20 Sep 2020 09:00