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Sarah Walker with an inviting 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.

There are summer dances from around the world today: Sarah plays Manuel de Falla’s Ritual Fire Dance, finds a glorious waltz in Eric Coates’ At the Dance, and the Scottish band Dàimh will get you whirling wherever you are.

She also discovers dark, introverted sonorites in the combination of viola and piano in an Elegie by Henri Vieuxtemps, and some bleak beauty in Vaughan Williams’ In the Fen Country.

Plus, the perfectly woven harmonies of Tomas Luis de Victoria’s Requiem Mass.

A Tandem Production for ѿý Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Music Played

  • Thomas Morley

    My Bonny Lass

    Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • SONY.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Laetatus Sum

    Choir: Taverner Choir. Orchestra: Taverner Players. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.
    • ERATO.
  • Arnold Bax

    Summer Music

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Chandos.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Eight Humoresques, Op. 101 (No.2, Poco andante)

    Performer: Julian Jacobson.
    • MERIDIAN.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Eight Humoresques, Op. 101 (No. 5, Vivace)

    Performer: Julian Jacobson.
    • MERIDIAN.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Luis Antonio García Navarro.
    • De Falla: El Amor Brujo, 3 Cornered Hat: LSO, Navarro.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 16.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto in A major, Wq 172

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Orchestra: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Three Choral Ballads (No. 3: Havde jeg, o havde jeg en dattersøn, o ja!)

    Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • DACAPO.
  • Amanda Rontgen-Maier

    Swedish Tunes and Dances (No. 6: Allegro)

    Performer: Gregory Maytan. Performer: Ann-Sofi Klingberg.
    • DB PRODUCTIONS.
  • José Pablo Moncayo

    Huapango

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Maximiano Valdés.
    • DORIAN.
  • Steve Reich

    Nagoya Marimbas

    Performer: Joe Beribak. Performer: Katalin La Favre.
    • YARLUNG RECORDS.
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Officium defunctorum: Responsory: Libera me, Domine

    Conductor: Nigel Short. Choir: Tenebrae.
    • Victoria: Requiem Mass, 1605.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 12.
  • Yuquijiro Yocoh

    Sakura - Theme and Variations on a Japanese Folk Song

    Performer: Göran Söllscher.
    • DG.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 70 in D major

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • LINN.
  • à

    Taighean Geala

    • GREENTRAX.
  • John Blow

    Morlake Ground

    Performer: Sophie Yates.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    In the Fen Country

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Henri Vieuxtemps

    Elegie Op.30

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Ke Ma.
    • CHAMPS HILL RECORDS.
  • Philip Glass

    Concerto for Saxophone Quartet (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Raschèr Saxophone Quartet.
    • ORANGE MOUNTAIN MUSIC.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in F major K.280 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Philips.
    • 6.
  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Solitude

    • VERVE REISSUES.
  • Anouar Brahem

    Leila au pays du carrousel

    Performer: Anouar Brahem. Performer: François Couturier. Performer: Jean-Louis Matinier.
    • ECM.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Má vlast (III: Šárka)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • DECCA.
  • Teresa Carreño

    Mi Teresita (Little Waltz)

    • SOLATINO.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 128.
  • Eleni Karaindrou

    Tango of Love

    Performer: Dinos Hadjiiordanou. Performer: Sergiu Nastasa. Orchestra: Armonia Atenea. Conductor: Alexandros Myrat.
    • ECM.
  • Eleni Karaindrou

    Waiting

    Performer: Eleni Karaindrou. Performer: Dinos Hadjiiordanou. Performer: Maria Bildea. Orchestra: Armonia Atenea. Conductor: Alexandros Myrat.
    • ECM.
  • Eric Coates

    Summer Days - Suite (1st mvt: At the Dance)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

Broadcast

  • Sun 18 Jul 2021 09:00