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Your perfect Sunday soundtrack

Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you’re enjoying some morning sunshine, or brewing a coffee.

Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh.

Today, Sarah discovers magical musical worlds - there’s the soft twinkling sound of Carl Nielsen’s Aladdin’s Dream, ambient shifting patterns on the piano in Debussy’s The Snow is Dancing, and a swirling waltz by Johann Strauss the second.

There’s also a violin sonata written by the nine year-old Mozart, during a visit to London, and composer Roxanna Panufnik time travels in her work for choir: Kyrie after Byrd.

Plus, a mysterious medieval piece with no name, or known composer…

Including ѿý Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, it’s 2003, the year of the Biggest UK Peace Rally, honoured by a new work written by award winning musician Arowah: In this World of War, Peace is What We’re Fighting For.

A Tandem Production for ѿý Radio 3

3 hours

Last on

Sun 16 Feb 2025 09:00

Music Played

  • Carl Nielsen

    Aladdin Suite, Op 34 (2nd mvt, 'Aladdin's Dream and Dance of the Morning Mist')

    Conductor: Niklas Willén. Orchestra: South Jutland Symphony Orchestra.
    • Naxos.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite No 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Barockorchester.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Herzlich tut mich erfreuen (11 Chorale Preludes, Op 122: No 4)

    Performer: Samson Tsoy. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.
    • Inmost Heart: Bach, Brahms, Busoni & Reger.
    • Linn Records.
    • 30.
  • Hubert Parry

    I Know My Soul Hath Power to Know All Things (Songs of Farewell)

    Conductor: Nigel Short. Ensemble: Tenebrae.
    • Signum Records.
  • Richard Addinsell

    Warsaw Concerto

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Conductor: Hugh Wolff. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Chanson Russe (arr for violin and piano)

    Performer: Livia Sohn. Performer: Benjamin Loeb. Music Arranger: Samuel Dushkin.
    • Opera Fantasies for Violin, Vol 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Franz Danzi

    Wind Quintet in F major, No 3 Op 56 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pavane, Op 50

    Composer: Gabriel Fauré. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa. Conductor: John Oliver. Conductor: John Oliver. Choir: Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Choir: Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra.
    • Faure: Pelléas et Mélisande.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.
  • Trad.

    Newcastle (Playford's 'The English Dancing Master')

    Director: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata.
    • Terra Mater.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 16.
  • Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi

    La bellezza

    Ensemble: amarcord.
    • The Book of Madrigals.
    • Raumklang.
    • 25.
  • Louise Farrenc

    12 Études Brillantes, Op 41 (No 5)

    Performer: Joanne Polk.
    • Steinway and Sons.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    貹ñ

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London.
    • Escales: French Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 101.
  • Anon.

    Untitled (Codex Faenza)

    Director: Michael Posch. Ensemble: Ensemble Unicorn.
    • Early Music Recordings of Ensemble Unicorn, Vol 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • John Sheppard

    In pace, in idipsum dormiam (In peace, in true peace I shall sleep and rest)

    Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge.
    • Gaude, gaude, gaude Maria.
    • Chandos.
    • 002.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op 325

    Conductor: Willi Boskovsky. Orchestra: Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester.
    • Famous Strauss Waltzes.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata for Keyboard and Violin in A major, K 12 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Hyperion.
  • Arowah

    In this World of War, Peace is What We're Fighting For

    Performer: Emma Rawicz. Performer: Lorenz Okello-Osengor. Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: George Morton.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Guitar Quintet No 4 in D major, G 448 (4th mvt, 'Fandango')

    Music Arranger: Jeremy Sparks. Ensemble: The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.
    • The Best of LAGQ.
    • DELOS.
    • 13.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Largo al factotum (Il barbiere di Siviglia)

    Conductor: Ulf Schirmer. Singer: Simon Keenlyside. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra.
    • Tales Of Opera.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Hania Rani

    Glass (arr solo violin, piano & strings)

    Composer: Hania Rani. Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Performer: Julien Quentin. Performer: Julien Quentin. Music Arranger: Max Knoth. Music Arranger: Max Knoth. Conductor: Jonathan Stockhammer. Conductor: Jonathan Stockhammer. Ensemble: Scoring Berlin. Ensemble: Scoring Berlin.
    • LIFE (Extended).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 8.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony No 1 in E minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Trittico botticelliano (1st mvt, 'La Primavera')

    Conductor: Claudio Scimone. Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti.
    • Warner Classics International.
  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Kyrie after Byrd

    Conductor: Suzi Digby. Ensemble: ORA Singers.
    • Upheld by Stillness: Renaissance Gems and their Reflections.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.
    • 08.
  • Claude Debussy

    Children's Corner, L 113 (No 4, 'The Snow Is Dancing')

    Performer: Pascal Rogé.
    • Debussy: Piano Works.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
    • 8.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op 34 (4th mvt, Rondo)

    Ensemble: The Gaudier Ensemble.
    • Weber: Chamber Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Franz Schubert

    Rosamunde, Op 26, D 797 (Overture from Die Zauberharfe, D 644)

    Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington. Orchestra: London Classical Players.
    • Romantische Ouvertüren.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Etude in C sharp minor, No 7 Op 25

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout. Music Arranger: Alexander Glazunov.
  • Jennifer Higdon

    Blue Cathedral

    Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Spano.
    • Rainbow Body.
    • Telarc.
    • 4.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Clockwork Doll (6 Children's Pieces, Op 69: No 6)

    Performer: Veronika Shoot.
    • Journey Through Childhood.
    • Ulysses Arts.
    • 51.
  • Ron Goodwin

    Belle's Love Theme (Beauty and the Beast)

    Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • The Film Music of Ron Goodwin.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 20.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in A major, No 28 Op 101 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

Broadcast

  • Sun 16 Feb 2025 09:00