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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, including works by Monteverdi, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Prokofiev and Fasch.

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

Sarah looks back to ancient times with a 14th-century ‘estampie’, and a setting of an old hymn by the 17th-century composer Monteverdi. She also enjoys the unique syncopated sound world of the composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks, and revels in the nostalgic atmosphere of Prokofiev’s ‘Tales of an Old Grandmother’.

There are also three very different dances - one from Sweden, one from the Highlands of Scotland played on a medieval harp and a Spanish Arabesque.

Plus, horn player Alec Frank-Gemmill shows the versatility of his instrument in a piece by Johann Friedrich Fasch.

A Tandem Production for ѿý Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Music Played

  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Horn Quartet in F major, FWV N: F3

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas.
    • Linn.
  • Edward Elgar

    Nursery Suite (Aubade)

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Ave Maris Stella (Vespers 1610)

    Singer: Grace Davidson. Singer: Kirsty Hopkins. Singer: Samuel Boden. Choir: Choir of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Robert Howarth.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Peggy Glanville-Hicks

    Etruscan Concerto (I. Promenade)

    Performer: Keith Jarrett. Orchestra: Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
    • MUSIC MASTERS.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Quintet in C major, 'La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid'

    Performer: Eckart Runge. Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Jorgen Jersild

    Serenade for Wind Quintet (III. Vivo)

    Ensemble: Danish National Symphony Orchestra Wind Quintet.
    • DA CAPO.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Va col canto (Cor Fedele [Clori, Tirsi et Fileno])

    Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Clori, Tirsi e Fileno.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 6.
  • Anon.

    Estampie

    Performer: Peter Skuce.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Howard Skempton

    Highland Dance No. 1

    Performer: Andrew Lawrence‐King.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 35 (IV. Andante - Allegro)

    Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.
    • CPO.
  • Enrique Granados

    12 Spanish Dances, Op. 37 (XII. Arabesca)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • CBC.
  • Ravi Shankar

    Symphony for sitar and orchestra (III. Scherzo - DoGa Kalyan)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Murphy.
    • LPO.
  • Amy Beach

    Peace I Leave with You

    Choir: Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Adagio con variazioni, P. 133

    Performer: Han‐na Chang. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • EMI.
  • Joseph Martin Kraus

    Swedish Dance

    Performer: Ronald Brautigam.
    • BIS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 (II. Andante moderato)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • NAXOS.
  • Diane Taraz & Jonathan Gilbert

    Three Drunken Maidens

    • DIANE TARAZ.
  • John Playford

    The English Dancing Master: An Italian Rant in G minor

    Ensemble: Flautando Köln.
    • CONDITURA RECORDS.
  • Johan Halvorsen

    Suite Ancienne, Op. 31a (I. Intrata. Allegretto moderato)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Tales of an Old Grandmother, Op. 31

    Performer: Simon Trpceski.
    • ONYX.
  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arlésienne Suite No 1 (Prelude)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • Bizet: Carmen Suites/Ponchielli: Cance of the Hours - PO, Ormandy.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.
  • Ralph Towner

    Sacred Place

    Performer: Ralph Towner.
    • ECM.
  • Carla Bley

    One Banana More

    Performer: Carla Bley. Performer: Paolo Fresu. Performer: Steve Swallow. Performer: Billy Drummond.
    • ECM.
  • Max Bruch

    Scottish Fantasy (IV. Finale, 'Socts wha hae!')

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rory MacDonald.
    • DECCA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    'Tu, e ver, m'assolvi, Augusto' (La clemenza di Tito, K621)

    Singer: Mark Padmore. Singer: Alexandrina Pendatchanska. Singer: Bernarda Fink. Singer: Marie‐Claude Chappuis. Singer: Sunhae Im. Singer: Sergio Foresti. Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Franz Schubert

    Six German Dances, D820, No. 1

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Six German Dances, D820, No. 2

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Six German Dances, D820, No. 3

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Six German Dances, D820, No. 4

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • PHILIPS.

Broadcast

  • Sun 6 Mar 2022 09:00