
Your perfect Sunday soundtrack
Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you are busy preparing lunch or relaxing with the papers.
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
Today, Sarah's big piece is a classic recording of Debussy's impressionist Three Nocturnes, and there's a chance to hear Martha Argerich's masterful take on the first movement of Schumann's Piano Concerto.
She has a joyful dance-like caprice for the violin by Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, there's music to accompany your summer from Albeniz and Delius, and she'll be playing the Mendelssohn favourite, Fingal's Cave.
Plus, Sarah's Choral Reflection today is the striking 3rd Psalm by Edvard Grieg, which shows a completely different side to the composer than the one you know from his extroverted Piano Concerto or Norwegian Dances.
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Gustav Holst
The Planets Suite, Op 32 (3rd mvt, 'Mercury')
Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.- London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 1 in C major, Op 21 (1st mvt)
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.- Decca Music Group Ltd.
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Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté
Ten Caprices (2nd mvt, Scherz)
Performer: Katrina Lee.- Delphian Records.
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Remo Giazotto
Adagio in G minor (arr for brass ensemble)
Music Arranger: Matthias Höfs. Conductor: Riccardo Muti. Ensemble: The Philharmonic Brass.- Supreme Classics.
- 103.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No 3 in G major, K 216 (3rd mvt, Rondeau)
Performer: Chloe Chua. Conductor: Hans Graf. Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra.- PentaTone Music BV.
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Erik Satie
Valse-ballet
Performer: Alain Planès.- Satie.
- harmonia mundi.
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Edvard Grieg
4 Psalms, Op 74 (No 3, 'Jesus Kristus er opfaren') [Jesus Christ Our Lord Is Risen]
Lyricist: Hans Thomison. Singer: Audun Iversen. Singer: Bård Bratlie. Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.- Grieg: Choral Music.
- BIS.
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Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54 (1st mvt)
Performer: Martha Argerich. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.- Martha Argerich Plays Schumann.
- Warner Classics.
- 1.
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Henryk Wieniawski
Polonaise de concert
Performer: Bomsori. Music Arranger: Jerzy Kornowicz. Orchestra: Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero.- Violin on Stage.
- DG.
- 1.
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso in A minor, No 4 Op 6, HWV 322
Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.- PENTATONE.
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Alexander Glazunov
Scènes de ballet, Op 52 (3rd mvt, Mazurka)
Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.- Marco-Polo.
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Maurice Ravel
La Valse, arr for piano
Performer: Beatrice Rana. -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major, BWV 1068 (2nd mvt, Air, 'On a G String')
Ensemble: Ferio Saxophone Quartet.- Revive.
- Chandos.
- 102.
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Hubert Parry
Never weather beaten sail (Songs of Farewell)
Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.- Songs of Farewell.
- Signum Classics.
- 503.
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Claude Debussy
Nocturnes, CD 98
Conductor: Pierre Boulez. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
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Dmitri Kabalevsky
Colas Breugnon Overture, Op. 24
Performer: Kathryn Stott. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.- Chandos.
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Margaret Bonds
Troubled Water
Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason.- Fantasie.
- Sony Classical.
- 8.
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Samuel Wesley
Symphony in D major (3rd mvt)
Conductor: Matthias Bamert. Orchestra: London Mozart Players.- Chandos.
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Frederick Delius
Summer Evening
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- Chandos.
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Isaac Albéniz
Suite española, Op 47 (No 3, 'Sevilla')
Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.- ѱ徱ٱáԱ.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 3.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Concerto No 2 in E flat major, Op 74, J 118 (3rd mvt, 'Alla Polacca')
Performer: Martin Fröst. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta.- BIS.
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Orlando Gibbons
Pavan and Galliard for 6 viols
Ensemble: Fretwork.- My Days.
- Signum Records.
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Oscar Hammerstein II
You'll Never Walk Alone (2021 - Stereo Remaster)
Composer: Richard Rodgers. Performer: Nina Simone.- Little Girl Blue (2021 - Stereo Remaster).
- BMG Rights Management (US) LLC.
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