
Sarah Walker with a rousing 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 contrasting solo instrumental textures, from intricate passages for bassoon in a concerto by Vivaldi, to the balladic saxophone in Dave Brubeck’s Softly, William, Softly, and the soft metallic sound of the medieval psaltery played by Andrew Lawrence-King.
She also discovers the characterful combination of vibraphone, flute and clarinet in Of Stars and Birds by Nardi Simpson.
Plus, an uplifting hymn with a tune by Herbert Howells that came to him while he was eating his breakfast…
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Joan Trimble
Puck Fair
Performer: Roy Holmes. Performer: Una Hunt.- MARCO POLO.
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Stefano Landi
Sinfonia
Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.- ALPHA.
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Stefano Landi
Augellin
Music Arranger: Nora Fischer. Music Arranger: Marnix Dorrestein. Singer: Nora Fischer. Performer: Marnix Dorrestein.- DG.
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Wilhelm Stenhammar
Symphony No. 2 in G minor, Op. 34 (I. Allegro energico)
Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.- BIS.
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Anon.
Quant voi la flor nouvele
Singer: Paul Hillier.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Bassoon Concerto in C major, RV 473
Performer: Sergio Azzolini. Orchestra: L’Onda Armonica.- NAIVE.
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Gerald Finzi
Introit, Op. 6
Performer: Thomas Gould. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.- DECCA.
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Alexander Glazunov
Melody, Op.20 No.1
Performer: Han‐na Chang. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.- EMI.
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Nico Samitz
Deep Energy
Ensemble: Trio 21meter60.- GENUIN.
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Thomas Arne
Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in G minor
Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Orchestra: English Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Simon Standage.- DG ARCHIV.
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Nardi Simpson
Of Stars and Birds
Ensemble: Ensemble Offspring.- Women of Note Vol 3.
- ABC Classics.
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Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, No. 5 (Skocná)
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.- SONY.
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Robert Schumann
Waldszenen, Op. 82 (VII. Vogel als prophet)
Performer: Tom Poster.- EDITION CLASSICS.
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Toumani Diabate & Ballake Sissoko & Fassely Diabate
Koungo
- LABEL BLEU.
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Marianna Martines
Perché, se tanti siete (Berenice, ah che fai?)
Singer: Núria Rial. Orchestra: La Floridiana. Conductor: Nicoleta Paraschivescu.- Martines: Il Primo amore.
- DHM.
- 17.
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Béla Bartók
Piano Concerto No. 3 (III. Allegro vivace)
Performer: Andreas Haefliger. Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Susanna Mälkki.- BIS.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet, Op. 20, No. 6 in A major
Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.- DG.
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Softly, William, Softly
- SONY.
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Felix Mendelssohn
The Fair Melusine, Op. 32 (Overture)
Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Philip Glass
Etude no.13
Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Joaquín Rodrigo
Concierto Madrigal for 2 Guitars & Orchestra (I. Fanfare)
Performer: Katona Twins. Orchestra: Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Conrad van Alphen.- CHANNEL.
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Joaquín Rodrigo
Concierto Madrigal for 2 Guitars & Orchestra (II. Madrigal)
Performer: Katona Twins. Orchestra: Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Conrad van Alphen.- CHANNEL.
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Joaquín Rodrigo
Concierto Madrigal for 2 Guitars & Orchestra (III. Entrada)
Performer: Katona Twins. Orchestra: Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Conrad van Alphen.- CHANNEL.
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Herbert Howells
All my Hope on God is Founded
Performer: Benjamin Bayl. Choir: King's College Cambridge Choir. Choir: Wallace Collection. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.- WARNER CLASSICS.
Broadcast
- Sun 12 Sep 2021 09:00ѿý Radio 3