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Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you’re having some friends over for a coffee, or getting stuck into some DIY.
Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh.
Today, there’s gentle guitar in music by Spanish composer Federico Moreno Torroba, plaintive harmonic suspensions in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, and glittering textures in a piano trio by Fanny Mendelssohn.
There are also some moments of stillness including an unaccompanied Medieval chant by Hildegard of Bingen, and soaring energy with Camille Saint-Saëns’s Havanaise.
Plus, Sibelius’s ‘confession of the soul’...
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Maurice Ravel
Mother Goose Suite (5th mvt, 'The Fairy Garden)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- EMI Classics.
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Federico Moreno Torroba
Piezas Características (No 3, 'Melodía')
Performer: Pietro Locatto.- Stradivarius.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 5 in A major, Hob I:5 (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Fey.- haenssler CLASSIC.
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Agathe Backer-Grøndahl
Aftenvind (Evening Wind)
Performer: Anne Le Bozec.- Grøndahl: 10 Fantasistykker, Op. 36.
- 貹é.
- 8.
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Stabat Mater (1st mvt, 'Stabat Mater')
Lyricist: Jacopone da Todi. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.- The Very Best of Emma Kirkby.
- Decca (UMO).
- 3.
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Franz Schubert
String Quartet No 13 in A minor, D 804, 'Rosamunde' (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Melos Quartett.- Schubert: The String Quartets.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 43.
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Johann Strauss II
Pizzicato Polka
Composer: Josef Strauss. Conductor: Karl Böhm. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.- Johann Strauss: Kaiserwalzer; Emperor Waltz; Walzer und Polkas.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 6.
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Ólafur Arnalds
Nyepi (Day of Silence)
Performer: Viktor Orri Árnason. Performer: Björk Óskarsdóttir. Performer: Ólafur Arnalds.- UNIVERSAL.
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Francis Poulenc
Les Biches Suite, FP 36b (1st mvt, 'Rondeau')
Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud. Orchestra: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.- Poulenc: Les biches Suite, Les animaux modèles Suite & Sinfonietta.
- Naxos.
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Heinrich Isaac
Tota pulchra es (2nd mvt, 'Flores Apparuerunt')
Conductor: Peter Phillips. Ensemble: Tallis Scholars.- Gimell.
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George Enescu
DzԳٲü
Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Andrei Banciu. -
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Danse macabre, Op 40
Orchestra: Les Siècles. Performer: François‐Xavier Roth.- Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems - Le Carnaval des animaux - L'Assassinat du duc de.
- harmonia mundi.
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
The Lark (L'Alouette)
Music Arranger: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev. Performer: Philip Fowke.- Virtuoso Transcriptions for Piano.
- CRD Records.
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Jean Sibelius
Symphony No 1 in E minor Op 39 (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- BPHR 150071.
- BPHR.
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Kassiani
Using the Apostate Tyrant as His Tool
Music Arranger: Diane Touliatos. Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.- Early Music.
- Nonesuch/Warner Records.
- 11.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenata Notturna K 239 (1st mvt)
Conductor: Andrew Watkinson. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia.- Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
- Sony Music Entertainment.
- 14.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
The Sea Shell
Choir: Choir of King’s College, London. Conductor: Joseph Fort.- Coleridge-Taylor: Partsongs.
- Delphian Records.
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Peter Warlock
Capriol Suite (5th mvt, 'Pied-en- l'air')
Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.- Fantasia on Greensleeves.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
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Gaetano Donizetti
L'Elisir d'amore (Act 2: 'Prendi, per me sei libero')
Singer: Maria Callas. Conductor: Nicola Rescigno. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire.- Maria Callas - 100 Best Classics.
- Warner Classics.
- 13.
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Nico Muhly
Etude 1
Performer: Nadia Sirota.- NEW AMSTERDAM.
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Johann Joseph Vilsmayr
Artificiosus Concentus pro Camera for solo violin (No 10, 'Aria variata')
Performer: Rachel Podger.- Tutta sola.
- Channel Classics.
- 12.
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Thomas Weelkes
26 Ayeres or Phantasticke Spirites (No 25, 'The Nightingale')
Ensemble: The King’s Singers.- Madrigals & Songs From The Renaissance.
- Warner Classics.
- 145.
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Anon.
Cachua
Performer: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Ensemble: La Capella Reial de Catalunya.- Villancicos Danzas Criollas 1550-1750.
- Alia Vox.
- 10.
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Hildegard von Bingen
O ignis spiritus (O fire of the spirit)
Performer: Grace Davidson.- Sacred Chants.
- Signum Records.
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Frederick Delius
A Song Before Sunrise
Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.- Best of British, Vol. 2.
- Crimson.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Celeste Aida (Aida)
Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.- Warner.
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Paul Taffanel
Wind Quintet in G minor (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Wiener Bläsersolisten.- Taffanel: Wind Quintet; Françaix: Wind Quintet (New Vienna Octet; Vienna Wind So.
- Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd..
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Antonio Vivaldi
Gloria in D major, RV 589 (1st mvt, 'Gloria in excelsis Deo')
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge.- Vivaldi: Gloria, RV 589 - Dixit Dominus, RV 594 & Magnificat, RV 610.
- Warner Classics.
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John Adams
Harmonielehre (Meister Eckhardt and Quackie)
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Adams: Harmonielehre.
- Warner Classics.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Oberon (Overture)
Conductor: Antal Doráti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.- ELOQUENCE.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
Piano Trio in D minor, Op 11 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Trio Chausson.- Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn.
- Mirare.
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- Sun 19 Jan 2025 09:00ѿý Radio 3