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Your perfect Sunday Soundtrack

Linton Stephens with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you’re staying warm inside or off on a bracing winter walk.

Linton Stephens, sitting in for Sarah Walker, with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh.

Today Linton’s choices include warming winter sounds from Vivaldi, Haydn and Dvorak, lyrical melodies from Clara Schubert, Mozart and Grieg, and a picture of the sea from Elgar.

There’s also music from the Danish String Quartet, a vibrant new release of music by Ruth Gipps, and choral music from Vicente Lusitano.

Plus, Gershwin inspires Hollywood…

A Tandem Production for ѿý Radio 3

3 hours

Last on

Sun 12 Jan 2025 09:00

Music Played

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Winter from The Four Seasons (Concerto No 4 in F minor, Op 8, RV 297)

    Conductor: Nicholas McGegan. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Baroque Masterpieces.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 22.
  • Claude Debussy

    Preludes Book 2 ('Bruyeres')

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Debussy: Music For Concentration.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 201.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony No 1 in E minor (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra.
    • Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.
  • Francesca Caccini

    Ciaccona

    Performer: Luigi Cozzolino. Director: Gian Luca Lastraioli. Ensemble: Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini.
    • Maria, dolce Maria.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 3.
  • John Taverner

    Audivi vocem de Caelo (I heard a voice coming from Heaven)

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.
  • Ola Gjeilo

    Winter Light (Version for Saxophone & Ensemble)

    Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • Gjeilo: Winter Light (Version for Saxophone & Ensemble).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Edgar Meyer. Performer: Chris Thile.
    • Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 1.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Humoreske

    Ensemble: Atéa Quintet.
    • Coviello Classics.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Horn Concerto, Op 58 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Gipps: Orchestral Works Vol. 3.
    • Chandos.
    • 103.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The Seasons Hob XXI:3 (Winter: Introduction)

    Lyricist: Gottfried van Swieten. Lyricist: James Thomson. Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra.
    • Haydn: The Seasons.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 29.
  • Jeff Alexander

    Come Wander With Me

    Composer: Tony Wilson. Lyricist: Jeff Alexander. Lyricist: Tony Wilson. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Winter.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 40 in G minor, K 550 (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Berlin Phil Media GmbH.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Prelude on Rhosymedre

    Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Ensemble: Tredegar Band.
    • Vaughan Williams on Brass.
    • Albion.
    • 08.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O virtus Sapientiae (O strength of Wisdom)

    Conductor: Christopher Monks. Ensemble: Armonico Consort.
    • Naked Byrd Two.
    • Signum Records.
    • 9.
  • Alma Deutscher

    When the Day Falls into Darkness (Cinderella)

    Performer: Alma Deutscher.
    • From My Book of Melodies.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.
  • Trad.

    Unst Boat Song (arr for string quartet)

    Music Arranger: Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen. Music Arranger: Frederik Øland. Music Arranger: Asbjørn Nørgaard. Music Arranger: Fredrik Sjølin.
    • Last Leaf.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 12.
  • George Gershwin

    An American in Paris

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Langrée.
    • Fanfare Cincinnati.
  • Nicolas Vallet

    Onder de linde groene

    Performer: Toyohiko Satoh.
    • Lute Music from the Netherlands.
    • NM Classics.
    • 020.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Violin Concerto In D, Op 35, TH 59 (3rd mvt, Finale)

    Conductor: Daniel Harding. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.
  • Sarah Quartel

    Lux Aeterna (Sanctum)

    Conductor: Bob Chilcott. Choir: The Oxford Choir.
    • Oxford University Press Music.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    La Pentola Magica, P 129 (No 2b, 'Dance')

    Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Respighi: La Boutique fantasque, La pentola magica & Prelude and Fugue in D Majo.
    • Chandos.
    • 111.
  • Clara Schumann

    Three Songs, Op 12 (No 2, 'Liebst du um Schönheit')

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: James Atkinson.
  • David John Mcguinness

    Where The Tea Is

    Composer: Ursula Leveaux.
    • Rainy Sundays.
    • Concerto Caledonia.
    • 04.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    O Silver Moon (Rusalka, Op 114, Act I)

    Lyricist: Jaroslav Kvapil. Conductor: Georg Solti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Renée Fleming: By Request.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 13.
  • Emilie Mayer

    Symphony No 6 in E Major (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Marc Niemann. Performer: Philharmonisches Orchester Bremerhaven.
    • äԲ.
  • Vicente Lusitano

    Emendemus in melius

    Composer: Marques L.A. Garrett. Choir: London Voices.
    • Oxford University Press Music.
  • Max Richter

    On the Nature of Daylight (transcribed for saxophone quartet and cello)

    Ensemble: Signum Saxophone Quartet.
    • Echoes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.
  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Violin Sonata in A minor No 3 Op 2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sophie Rosa. Performer: Ian Buckle.
    • Montgeroult, Viotti, Weber & Mendelssohn: Violin Sonatas.
    • Rubicon.
    • 6.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Final Hymn from The Firebird Suite (1919 version)

    Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.
    • Leonard Bernstein - A Total Embrace: The Conductor.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Sun 12 Jan 2025 09:00