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Your perfect Sunday soundtrack

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you鈥檙e enjoying a quiet coffee, or heading into the outdoors.

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

It's officially June, and today Sarah鈥檚 soundtrack for your Sunday morning includes Poulenc鈥檚 bright, yet melancholy Flute Sonata, a concerto Richard Strauss composed for his father, and Purcell鈥檚 hypnotic Chacony in G minor.

There鈥檚 also a movement from Haydn鈥檚 sunny Symphony no.89, the joyful duet from close to the end of Bach鈥檚 cantata Wachet auf, and Jocelyn Pook鈥檚 evocative music for the 2004 film The Merchant of Venice.

Plus, Chopin tugs at the heartstrings...

A Tandem Production for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Sun 1 Jun 2025 09:00
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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Suite bergamasque, L 75 (3rd mvt, 'Clair de lune')

    Performer: Seong鈥怞in Cho.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 89 in F major, Hob I:89 (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Haydn: Symphonies Nos 88-92 & Sinfonia Concertante.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Der Zweifel (Doubt)

    Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.
    • DEUX-ELLES.

  • Julie Cooper

    Firedove

    Performer: Anna Lapwood. Performer: Elena Urioste. Choir: Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
    • SONY.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No 5 in D major (1st mvt, Preludio)

    Conductor: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Onyx Classics.

  • Josquin des Prez

    Ave Maria, Virgo Serena

    Lyricist: Josquin des Prez. Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • The Golden Renaissance: Josquin des Prez.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 4.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Concerto No 2 in G Minor, Op 22 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Conductor: James Judd. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Rhapsody In Blue: Saint-S盲ens, Ravel, Gershwin.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
    • 2.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No 4 Op 120 in D minor (4th mvt, Finale)

    Conductor: Thomas Zehetmair. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • AVIE Records.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 876 (Book 2, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • Alexander Borodin

    In the Steppes of Central Asia

    Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.
    • Vox.

  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G minor, Z 730

    Ensemble: London Baroque.
    • Purcell: Fantazias / Pavan / Chacony / In Nomine.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Iberia, Book 1 (2nd mvt, 'El Puerto')

    Performer: Pyramyth.
    • Alb茅niz: Piano Music, Vol 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Ouverture (arr for orchestra)

    Music Arranger: JoAnn Falletta. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta. Orchestra: Women's Philharmonic.
    • The Women's Philharmonic.
    • Musical Concepts.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata for Piano and Violin in A major, K 526 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Performer: Natalie Zhu.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Frederick Delius

    La Calinda (Koanga: Act 2)

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • The World of Delius.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
    • 4.

  • Jocelyn Pook

    How Sweet The Moonlight (The Merchant of Venice)

    Performer: Siobh谩n Armstrong. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Lyricist: William Shakespeare. Singer: Andreas Scholl. Ensemble: Baroque String Quartet.
    • The Merchant of Venice.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
    • 7.

  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony No.2 in E flat major Op.63 (3rd movement)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Onyx Classics : ONYX 4165.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 3.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor Op.11 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Orchestra: Polish Festival Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Haydn Wood

    Sketch of a Dandy

    Conductor: Adrian Leaper. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Wood: Sketch of A Dandy / London Cameos.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 1.

  • Amjad Ali Khan

    Bhupali

    Performer: Amjad Ali Khan. Conductor: David Murphy. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
    • WORLD VILLAGE.

  • Franz Schubert

    Rosamunde, D 797 (No 3b, 'Romanze')

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Ruby Hughes.
    • CHAMPS HILL.

  • Johan Daniel Berlin

    Concerto for Violin and Strings in A Major: III Allegro

    Performer: Gottfried von der Goltz. Orchestra: Norsk Barokkorkester.
    • Johan Daniel and Johan Heinrich Berlin.
    • Simax Classics.
    • 12.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Three Trad. Tangos

    Performer: Anthony Marwood. Performer: James Crabb. Music Arranger: James Crabb.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Hymn to St Cecilia

    Choir: VOCES8. Conductor: Barnaby Smith.
    • After Silence.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 31.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Flute Sonata, FP 164 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Michel Debost. Performer: Jacques F茅vrier.
    • Parlophone (France).

  • Ottorino Respighi

    La boutique fantasque (Mazurka)

    Composer: Gioachino Rossini. Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jes煤s L贸pez Cobos.
    • TELARC.

  • Richard Strauss

    Horn Concerto No 1 in E flat major, Op 11 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: David Pyatt. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • Warner Classics.

Broadcast

  • Sun 1 Jun 2025 09:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3