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Your perfect Sunday soundtrack

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’...

A Tandem Production for ѿý Radio 3

3 hours

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Sun 19 Jan 2025 09:00

Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Mother Goose Suite (5th mvt, 'The Fairy Garden)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Federico Moreno Torroba

    Piezas Características (No 3, 'Melodía')

    Performer: Pietro Locatto.
    • Stradivarius.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 5 in A major, Hob I:5 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Fey.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
  • Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

    Aftenvind (Evening Wind)

    Performer: Anne Le Bozec.
    • Grøndahl: 10 Fantasistykker, Op. 36.
    • 貹é.
    • 8.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ólafur Arnalds

    Nyepi (Day of Silence)

    Performer: Viktor Orri Árnason. Performer: Björk Óskarsdóttir. Performer: Ólafur Arnalds.
    • UNIVERSAL.
  • 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.
    • 1.
  • Heinrich Isaac

    Tota pulchra es (2nd mvt, 'Flores Apparuerunt')

    Conductor: Peter Phillips. Ensemble: Tallis Scholars.
    • Gimell.
  • 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.
    • 4.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    The Lark (L'Alouette)

    Music Arranger: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev. Performer: Philip Fowke.
    • Virtuoso Transcriptions for Piano.
    • CRD Records.
    • 6.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 1 in E minor Op 39 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • BPHR 150071.
    • BPHR.
    • 2.
  • Kassiani

    Using the Apostate Tyrant as His Tool

    Music Arranger: Diane Touliatos. Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • Early Music.
    • Nonesuch/Warner Records.
    • 11.
  • 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.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    The Sea Shell

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, London. Conductor: Joseph Fort.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Partsongs.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 8.
  • 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..
    • 11.
  • 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.
  • Nico Muhly

    Etude 1

    Performer: Nadia Sirota.
    • NEW AMSTERDAM.
  • Johann Joseph Vilsmayr

    Artificiosus Concentus pro Camera for solo violin (No 10, 'Aria variata')

    Performer: Rachel Podger.
    • Tutta sola.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 12.
  • Thomas Weelkes

    26 Ayeres or Phantasticke Spirites (No 25, 'The Nightingale')

    Ensemble: The King’s Singers.
    • Madrigals & Songs From The Renaissance.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 145.
  • Anon.

    Cachua

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Ensemble: La Capella Reial de Catalunya.
    • Villancicos Danzas Criollas 1550-1750.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 10.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O ignis spiritus (O fire of the spirit)

    Performer: Grace Davidson.
    • Sacred Chants.
    • Signum Records.
    • 3.
  • Frederick Delius

    A Song Before Sunrise

    Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Best of British, Vol. 2.
    • Crimson.
    • 4.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Celeste Aida (Aida)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Warner.
  • 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..
    • 3.
  • 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.
    • 1.
  • John Adams

    Harmonielehre (Meister Eckhardt and Quackie)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Adams: Harmonielehre.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Oberon (Overture)

    Conductor: Antal Doráti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • ELOQUENCE.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio in D minor, Op 11 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio Chausson.
    • Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn.
    • Mirare.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Sun 19 Jan 2025 09:00