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Sarah Walker with a stirring 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 celebrates the soaring energy of the opening chorus from JS Bach’s Cantata ‘Sleepers Wake’, finds optimism in a Schumann symphony, while a rare jazz oboe improvisation spins a web of beautiful melody.

Plus, a song by John Dowland that calls for a reflective walk in the woods...

A Tandem Production for ѿý Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Music Played

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Scherzo from The Firebird

    Performer: Isabelle van Keulen. Performer: Olli Mustonen. Music Arranger: Samuel Dushkin.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Zion hört die Wächter singen (Cantata No 140)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J.S. Bach, Cantatas Vol 12: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 22.
  • Edwin York Bowen

    3 miniatures, Op. 44

    Performer: Joop Celis.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet, Op. 20 No. 2 in C major

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • DG.
  • Louis Andriessen

    Un beau baiser

    Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • First Drop.
    • Cantaloupe Music.
    • 601.
  • Hans Neusidler

    Dance of the Washerwomen

    Ensemble: Trouvere Medieval Minstrels.
    • ORANGE DOG.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O Rubor Sanguinis: Antienne (Antiphon)

    Singer: Brigitte Lesne.
    • NAIVE.
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97 'Rhenish': ii. Scherzo

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • DG.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Orpheus's Lament and Dance arr Kempff

    Music Arranger: Wilhelm Kempff. Performer: Wilhelm Kempff.
    • J.S. Bach: Englische Suite Nr.3; Capriccio BWV 992 - Transkriptionen fur Klavier.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 27-28.
  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    Good Day, Night (from Orphee)

    Performer: Hildur Guðnadóttir. Orchestra: Air Lyndhurst String Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Weeden.
    • DG.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Overture to Tancredi

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Trio Sonata in A minor, BuxWV 254

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Director: Jonathan Cohen.
    • ALPHA CLASSICS.
  • Charles Tomlinson Griffes

    Clouds

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • NAXOS.
  • Franz Xaver Süssmayr

    Symphony in C major, 'Sinfonia turchesca'

    Ensemble: Concerto Köln. Ensemble: Sarband. Director: Werner Ehrhardt. Director: Vladimir Ivanoff.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Ralph Towner

    Alpenbridge

    Ensemble: Oregon.
    • ECM.
  • Oskar Fried

    Verklärte Nacht, Op 9

    Singer: Christine Rice. Singer: Stuart Skelton. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Trio Sonata in B flat major, Op. 5 No. 17 (RV 76) - II. Allemanda

    Performer: Ludwig Güttler. Music Arranger: Ludwig Güttler. Ensemble: Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.
  • Philip Glass

    Violin Concerto - 2nd movement

    Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Music Arranger: Gediminas Gelgotas. Orchestra: Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Conductor: Jonathan Stockhammer.
    • DG.
  • John Dowland

    Book of Songs, Book 2: Oh sweet woods, the delight of solitariness

    Performer: Anthony Rooley. Singer: Emma Kirkby.
    • BIS.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix (Samson et Delilah)

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eivind Aadland.
    • WARNER.
  • François Couperin

    Les Concerts Royaux: No. 1 in G major

    Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Director: Christophe Rousset.
    • APARTE (LITTLE TRIBECA).
  • Duke Ellington

    Such Sweet Thunder

    Orchestra: Vienna Art Orchestra.
    • EmArcy.
  • Muzio Clementi

    Gradus ad Parnassum, Op. 44 No. 48 Velocissimo

    Performer: Alessandro Marangoni.
    • NAXOS.
  • John Williams

    Jurassic Park (main theme)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • MCA Records.
  • Henry Litolff

    Concerto Symphonique no.4 Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • AVIE.

Broadcast

  • Sun 25 Apr 2021 09:00