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Sarah Walker with an energising musical mix

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re cooking brunch or catching up on some work.

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

Today, there’s a jolly piece for wind by Charles Gounod that’s full of syncopation, exhilarating choral music by Galina Grigorjeva, and Vikingur Olafsson explores all the sonic possibilities on the piano in a sarabande by Debussy.

Sarah also plays Paul Dukas’s ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,’ which many people will know from its famous appearance in Disney's Fantasia, and there’s a fresh take on Led Zeppelin's ‘Going to California’ for lute and harp.

Plus, Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto no.4 is played in its full earthy glory by the English Baroque Soloists…

A Tandem Production for ѿý Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    Rosamunde, D. 797 (V. Entr'acte 3)

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • ERATO.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    L'Amante modesto

    Ensemble: Cappella Mediterranea. Director: Leonardo García Alarcón.
    • AMBRONAY.
  • Frank Bridge

    Spring Song (4 Short Pieces, No. 2)

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Music Arranger: Simon Parkin. Ensemble: The Heath Quartet.
    • DECCA.
  • Charles Gounod

    Petite Symphonie in B flat for 9 wind instruments (IV. Finale (Allegretto))

    Ensemble: Athena Ensemble.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Hermann Goetz

    Symphony in F Major, Op. 9 (I. Allegro moderato)

    Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony, Hannover. Conductor: Werner Andreas Albert.
    • CPO.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Agnus Dei (Requiem in D minor, Op. 48)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049

    Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48 (IV. Finale. Tema Russo)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • DECCA.
  • Christian Petzold

    Two Minuets (attributed to J.S. Bach)

    Performer: Göran Söllscher. Music Arranger: Göran Söllscher.
    • DG.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Rite of Spring (II. Les augures printaniers; III. Jeu du rapt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä.
    • DECCA.
  • Josquin des Prez

    Stabat Mater

    Ensemble: Alamire. Conductor: David Skinner.
    • OBSIDIAN.
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Piano Concerto No. 4 in E major, 'Les Adieux' (I. Allegro pomposo e spirituoso)

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: London Mozart Players.
    • CHANDOS.
  • James Newton Howard

    Flying (Peter Pan)

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • SONY.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Milonga En Re 'tango'

    Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers. Performer: Akira Eguchi.
    • KOCH.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Voi, che sapete (The Marriage of Figaro, Act 2)

    Performer: Felix Klieser. Ensemble: Zemlinsky Quartet.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.
  • Henry Purcell

    Trumpet Tune & Air

    Performer: Philip Jones. Performer: James Watson. Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • MARCOPHON.
  • Johann Strauss II

    The Blue Danube, Op. 314

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • WARNER.
  • Ravi Shankar

    Sukanya: IX. Tilak Kalmod

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Murphy.
    • LPO.
  • Thomas Campion

    Never weather-beaten sail

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto

    Perspective

    Performer: Ryuichi Sakamoto.
    • COMMMONS.
  • Paul Dukas

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • DECCA.
  • Luca Pianca & Margret Köll

    Going to California

    • ACCENT.
  • Galina Grigorjeva

    Svjatki (I. Glory!)

    Choir: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • ONDINE.
  • John Ireland

    A London Overture

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Claude Debussy

    Pour le piano, L. 95 (II. Sarabande)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • DG.

Broadcast

  • Sun 10 Sep 2023 09:00