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Your perfect Sunday soundtrack

Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you鈥檙e curled up with a book, tending to your garden, or simply enjoying a moment of calm.

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

Today, Sarah shares a grand concerto by Handel designed to be performed outdoors, one of Purcell鈥檚 most expressive melodies, a lively part song by Saint-Sa毛ns, and a piece that reminds her of a Sunday Morning broadcast from Iceland at the start of the year.

There鈥檚 also encouragement to venture out into the sunshine in one of Percy Grainger鈥檚 lively arrangements of Country Gardens, and a work by Howard Skempton with rich orchestration that, for Sarah, comes directly from the heart.

Plus, a song by Schubert that鈥檚 a homage to the poet鈥檚 鈥榖eloved moon鈥�...

A Tandem Production for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto a due cori no.2 in F major HWV.333 (5th & 6th mvts)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Petra M眉llejans. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Dance Of The Cockerels (Maskerade)

    Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud. Orchestra: Norrk枚pings Symfoniorkester.
    • Nordic Masterpieces.
    • Simax Classics.
    • 3.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata No 4 in A minor, D 537 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Zais (Overture)

    Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Conductor: Christophe Rousset.
    • 础笔础搁罢脡.

  • Edward Elgar

    Sea Pictures, Op 37 (No 4, 'Where Corals Lie')

    Singer: Alice Coote. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. Orchestra: Hall茅.
    • Elgar Sea Pictures.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 4.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 104 in D major, 'London' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • NAIVE.

  • Imogen Holst

    A Hymne to Christ

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Director: Graham Ross.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Michael Nyman

    Why? (The Diary Of Anne Frank)

    Performer: Valentina Lisitsa.
    • Chasing Pianos - The Piano Music Of Michael Nyman.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
    • 12.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Well Tempered Clavier, Book 2, BWV 881 (Prelude in F minor)

    Performer: F茅licien Brut.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Henry Purcell

    If Music Be the Food of Love, Z 379

    Performer: Paul Nicholson. Performer: Richard Boothby. Singer: Nancy Argenta.
    • Purcell: Songs and Airs.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 106.

  • Jean Sibelius

    A Song for Lemminkainen, Op.31 No.1

    Choir: Estonian National Male Choir. Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Sibelius Cantatas.
    • Virgin.
    • 6.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt, Op 23, Act 4 (No 13, 'Prelude, Morning Mood')

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • The Distinguished Conductor.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 24.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Saltarelle, Op 74

    Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on.
    • Signum Records.
    • 10.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Trio No 2 in C major, Op 87 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio S艒ra.
    • La Dolce Volta.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony No 8 in G minor, Op 88, B 163 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • LSO Live.

  • Kolbeinn Tumason

    Heyr, Himna Smiour (Hear, smith of the heavens)

    Music Arranger: Porkell Sigurbjornsson. Singer: Anneke van Giersbergen. Choir: Arstioir. Choir: Arstioir.
    • Label Mates.

  • Trad.

    Hur var du i aftes s氓 sildig (Where were you so late last night?)

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Last Leaf.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 14.

  • Anselm McDonnell

    A Taste of Trapped Sun

    Choir: 蜜芽传媒 Singers.

  • Franz Schubert

    An den Mond, No 3 Op 57, D 193

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Ian Bostridge.
    • Schubert: Lieder.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • Edewede Oriwoh

    We remember for four flutes

    Ensemble: Quartetto di flauti image.
    • Luna Rossa.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont, Op 84 (Overture)

    Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Warner Classics International.

  • Paul Constantinescu

    Piano Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Oliver Triendl. Conductor: Marcus Bosch. Orchestra: Rostock North German Philharmonic.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.

  • Francesca Caccini

    Ciaccona

    Director: Gian Luca Lastraioli. Ensemble: Capella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini.
    • BRILLIANT.

  • Percy Grainger

    Country Gardens (Handkerchief Dance) arr for piano duet

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que.
    • Sisters.
    • Universal Music Division Decca Records France.
    • 13.

  • Frederick Delius

    尝茅驳别苍诲别

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.

  • Harry Burleigh

    Southland Sketches, arr for wind quintet (4th mvt)

    Music Arranger: Jelte Althuis. Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet.
    • An American Rhapsody.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 7.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 8 in C minor, 'Path茅tique'

    Performer: Paul Lewis.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Whispers of Summer

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, London. Conductor: Joseph Fort.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Partsongs.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 11.

  • Howard Skempton

    Lento

    Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra.
    • NMC Recordings.

Broadcast

  • Sun 18 May 2025 09:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3