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Sarah Walker with a kaleidoscopic musical mix

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re enjoying breakfast in bed or setting off on a sunny hike.

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

Today, Sarah finds intricately woven melodies in Jean Mouton’s 8 part motet and Antonin Dvorak’s flowing ‘Quartettsatz’. She also finds brightness in a wind ensemble arrangement of Arturo Márquez’s Danzon No.2, and we hear some familiar tunes from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Rigoletto arranged for two flutes and orchestra.

There’s also music by Agathe Backer Grøndahl which highlights the percussive side of the piano, and the orchestra is allowed to shine in all of its full glory in Beethoven’s Egmont Overture.

Plus, Peggy Lee with a timeless classic…

A Tandem Production for ѿý Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Music Played

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Gloria in excelsis deo, RV 589

    Performer: Felix Klieser. Ensemble: CHAARTS Chamber Artists.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French Suite No. 5, BWV 816 (i. Allemande)

    Performer: Martynas.
    • ACCENTUS MUSIC.
  • Frederick Delius

    Dance Rhapsody No. 2, RT VI/22

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 97, 'Archduke' (II. Scherzo)

    Performer: Frank Braley. Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Renaud Capuçon.
    • WARNER.
  • Jean Mouton

    Nesciens mater

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • GIMELL.
  • John Dowland

    La Mia Barbara (Three Feminine Portraits, No. 2)

    Performer: Hopkinson Smith.
    • NAIVE.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39 (III. Scherzo. Allegro)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • BERLIN PHILHARMONIC.
  • Meredith Monk

    Ellis Island

    Performer: Katia & Marielle Labèque. Performer: Bryce Dessner. Performer: David Chalmin.
    • DG.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 27

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Kaija Saariaho

    Oltra mar (II. Amour)

    Choir: Tapiolan Kamarikuoro. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka‐Pekka Saraste.
    • ONDINE.
  • Franz Lachner

    Octet in B flat major (III. Scherzo)

    Ensemble: German Wind Soloists.
    • MARCO POLO.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Requiem aeternam

    Performer: Andrew Dewar. Music Arranger: Rupert Gough. Choir: Choir of Royal Holloway. Conductor: Rupert Gough.
    • Ad Fontes.
  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Violin Concerto in E major, D. 50

    Performer: Ariadne Daskalakis. Orchestra: Kölner Kammerorchester. Conductor: Helmut Müller‐Brühl.
    • NAXOS.
  • Edvard Grieg

    I Folketone (In the Folk Style)

    Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • BIS.
  • Franz Doppler

    Rigoletto Fantasy

    Composer: Karl Doppler. Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Juliette Hurel. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • EMI.
  • Margaret Bonds

    Bright Star

    Music Arranger: Ellie Consta. Ensemble: Her Ensemble.
    • HER ENSEMBLE RECORDS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend, BWV 655

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • DG.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Quartettsatz: Andante appassionata in A minor

    Ensemble: Prague String Quartet.
    • DG.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No. 5 in B flat Major (I. Allegro)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

    3 Morceaux, Op. 15 (No. 3 in G minor)

    Performer: Hiroko Ishimoto.
    • GRAND PIANO.
  • Guillaume Dufay

    Saltarello

    Music Arranger: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Arturo Márquez

    Danzon No. 2

    Orchestra: North Texas Wind Symphony. Conductor: Eugene Migliaro Corporon.
    • GIA PUBLICATIONS.
  • Peggy Lee

    Why don't you do right (Get me some money too)

    • CAPITOL RECORDS.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Smagfugl (Lyric Pieces Book. 3 Op.43, No. 4)

    Performer: Einar Steen-Nøkleberg.
    • NAXOS.
  • Snorri Hallgrímsson

    The Plover and the Raven

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Performer: Snorri Hallgrímsson. Performer: Þorsteinn Eyfjörð Þórarinsson.
    • DG.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Overture, Op. 84

    Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Traditional Irish

    If I Were A Blackbird

    Singer: Ronnie Ronalde.
    • EMI.
  • Claude Debussy

    La fille aux cheveux de lin (Préludes Bk 1)

    Performer: Atsuko Koga. Performer: Riyo Uemura. Performer: Georgiy Lomakov.
    • La fille aux cheveux de lin.
    • Genuin.
    • 101.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Missa Salisburgensis (V. Agnus Dei)

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Director: Reinhard Goebel. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • DG ARCHIV.

Broadcast

  • Sun 14 May 2023 09:00