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A reflective classical selection for Sunday

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re working through the weekend or recharging for the week ahead.

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

Today, soprano Angela Gheorghiu beguiles as Bizet’s Carmen, Salieri concocts a sinfonia full of bustling energy, and Australian composer Sally Whitwell sets her morning commute to music.

Elsewhere in the programme, pianist Florian Noack finds playful subtleties in Tielman Susato’s renaissance harmony, Julia Lezhneva and Philippe Jaroussky join forces to sing Pergolesi, and American composer Charles Griffes offers a tantalisingly delicate orchestral miniature.

Plus, Ravel whisks us off our feet...

A Tandem Production for ѿý Radio 3

3 hours

Music Played

  • John Field

    Nocturne No. 18, 'Le midi'

    Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • NAXOS.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    English Folk Song Suite (I. March. Seventeen Come Sunday)

    Music Arranger: Philip Littlemore. Ensemble: Tredegar Band. Conductor: Ian Porthouse.
    • ALBION RECORDS.
  • Samuel Dushkin

    Sicilienne

    Performer: Jian Wang. Performer: Göran Söllscher.
    • DG.
  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne

    Violin Concerto No. 2 in A Major, Op.5 (III. Rondo)

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Ensemble: Mutter’s Virtuosi.
    • DG.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Hotel (Banalités, FP.107, No. 2)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Singer: Sabine Devieilhe.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229

    Choir: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No. 5 in F major, Op. 76 (III. Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Libor Pešek.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Charles Tomlinson Griffes

    Clouds

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • NAXOS.
  • Claude Debussy

    Les collines d'Anacapri (Preludes, Book 1, No. 5)

    Performer: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard.
    • DG.
  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Sussex Landscape Op.27 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
    • Decca.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 (I. Molto Allegro)

    Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • APARTE.
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat Mater (I. Stabat mater dolorosa)

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Singer: Julia Lezhneva. Ensemble: I Barocchisti. Conductor: Diego Fasolis.
    • ERATO.
  • Tielman Susato

    The Danserye: Pour Quoi

    Performer: Florian Noack.
    • LA DOLCE VITA.
  • Jean-Henri d'Anglebert

    Les Folies d'Espagne

    Composer: Marin Marais. Composer: Francesco Corbetta. Performer: Andrew Lawrence‐King.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • André Caplet

    Tout est lumiere

    Singer: Brigitte Desnoues. Singer: Marc Duguay. Singer: Jean-François Lapointe. Choir: Paris Sorbonne Choir. Orchestra: Paris Sorbonne Orchestra. Conductor: Jacques Grimbert.
    • MARCO POLO.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Bolero, M. 81

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.
  • Sally Whitwell

    Road Trip

    Performer: Sally Whitwell. Performer: Sally Walker.
    • ABC.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Marzurka No. 4 in A minor, Op. 17, B. 77

    Music Arranger: Piotr Moss. Ensemble: Polish Cello Quartet.
    • CD ACCORD.
  • Antonio Salieri

    Sinfonia Veneziana (I. Allegro assai)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Jerome Moross

    The Big Country (Main Title)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Stanley Black.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Benjamin Britten

    O Waly Waly (Folksong Arrangements, Book 3 "British Isles")

    Performer: Ian Bostridge. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Kurt Weill

    Panamian Suite (II. March of the Panamanian Army)

    Orchestra: Basel Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mark Fitz-Gerald.
    • FIRST HAND.
  • Georges Bizet

    Habanera 'L'amour est un oiseau rebelle' (Carmen, WD 31, Act 1)

    Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Choir: Les Éléments. Orchestra: National Capitole Orchestra of Toulouse. Conductor: Michel Plasson.
    • WARNER.
  • Amy Beach

    Symphony in E minor, Op. 32, 'Gaelic Symphony' (IV. Allegro di molto)

    Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kenneth Schermerhorn.
    • NAXOS.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Notturno (6 Pieces for piano, No. 3)

    Performer: Magdalena Hoffmann.
    • DG.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite No. 6 in F sharp (IV. Gigue)

    Performer: Dina Ugorskaja.
    • AVI MUSIC.
  • Jacobus Clemens non Papa

    Ego flos campi

    Ensemble: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Philips.
    • GIMELL.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Zoroastre (Ouverture)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets (II. Venus, The Bringer of Peace)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Leopold Mozart

    Missa Solemnis - Gloria in excelsis Deo & Laudamus te

    Orchestra: Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie. Choir: Das Vokalprojekt. Conductor: Alessandro De Marchi.
    • 貹é.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Cinderella's Waltz; Midnight (Cinderella Suite No 1)

    Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.
    • St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra - Prokofiev: Cinderella; Romeo and Juliet.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 8.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Trio in D Minor for Clarinet, Cello & Piano, Op. 3 (III. Allegro)

    Ensemble: Gauguin Ensemble.
    • ETCETERA.

Broadcast

  • Sun 16 Jun 2024 09:00