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Ian McMillan with an inspiring musical mix

Ian McMillan sits in for Sarah Walker and chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.

Writer and broadcaster Ian McMillan puts his Yorkshire puddings on hold to sit in for Sarah Walker, choosing three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.

Today Ian has chosen music to refresh the senses, including the gently rolling Seascapes for winds by Ruth Gipps, and Bix Beiderbecke’s meandering jazz piano solo - In a Mist.

There’s also Claude Debussy’s hauntingly descriptive Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, and a movement from Gabriel Fauré’s final work, his searing String Quartet.

Plus, the prelude from the TV series Poldark in a sensitive performance by the pianist Lang Lang.

A Tandem Production for ѿý Radio 3

Photo by Ruth Bourne

3 hours, 1 minute

Music Played

  • Philip Wilby

    A Breathless Alleluia

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Performer: Philip Wilby. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • A Breathless Alleluia.
    • NAXOS.
    • 1.
  • Ethel Smyth

    2 Canons for Piano

    Performer: Liana Șerbescu.
    • CPO.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E-flat major, RV257

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Benedetti Baroque Orchestra.
    • DECCA.
  • Claude Debussy

    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune, CD.87

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Slow Meadow

    Helium Life Jacket

    Performer: Elsa Bradley. Performer: Calie Hough. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Choir: VOCES8.
    • DECCA.
  • César Franck

    Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra, M. 46

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Stéphane Denève.
    • NAIVE.
  • Edvard Grieg

    12 Songs, Op. 33 (II. Varen)

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Performer: Kåre Nordstoga.
    • LAWO.
  • Bix Beiderbecke

    In a Mist

    Performer: Bix Beiderbecke.
    • DEFINITIVE RECORDS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 64 in A major

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.
  • Paul McCartney

    Michelle

    Composer: John Lennon. Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Performer: Steven Isserlis. Music Arranger: Julian Kershaw. Music Arranger: Sérgio Assad.
    • MERCURY.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Seascapes, Op. 53

    Ensemble: Erie County Chamber Winds. Conductor: Rick Fleming.
    • MARK RECORDS.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    String Quartet in E minor, Op. 121 (III. Allegro)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • ERATO.
  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Lullaby of Birdland

    • MCA RECORDS.
  • Edward Elgar

    3 Characteristic Pieces (I. Mazurka)

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • NAXOS.
  • Edward Elgar

    3 Characteristic Pieces (II. Serenade mauresque; III. Contrasts: The Gavotte)

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • NAXOS.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without Words in F sharp minor, Op.67 no.2

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Khatia Buniatishvili: Motherland.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • Jonathan Dove

    Under Alter'd Skies (VII. Thy Voice is on the Rolling Air)

    Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Singer: James Gilchrist.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Trio for 2 Oboes & Cor Anglais, Op. 87 (III. Menuet)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • CPO.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Trio for 2 Oboes & Cor Anglais, Op. 87 (IV. Finale. Presto)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • CPO.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no.1 in C minor Op.32 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • ERATO.
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    O Vos Omnes

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Director: Timothy Brown.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
  • Anne Dudley

    Poldark Prelude

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • SONY.
  • Philip Glass

    Violin Concerto No. 2, 'The American Four Seasons' (VIII. Movement IV)

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Orchestra: Kremerata Baltica.
    • DG.
  • Norman Hallam

    Dance Suite

    Performer: Janna Huneke. Performer: Sarah Devonald. Performer: Mark Lacey. Performer: Tim Swanwick. Performer: Alec Forshaw.
    • Harmoniemusik.
    • The Classical Recording Company.
    • 23.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Chandos.

Broadcast

  • Sun 29 Aug 2021 09:00