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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.

A Tandem Production for ѿý Radio 3

3 hours

Last on

Sun 3 Aug 2025 09:00

Music Played

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets Suite, Op 32 (3rd mvt, 'Mercury')

    Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 1 in C major, Op 21 (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Riccardo Chailly. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
  • Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté

    Ten Caprices (2nd mvt, Scherz)

    Performer: Katrina Lee.
    • Delphian Records.
  • Remo Giazotto

    Adagio in G minor (arr for brass ensemble)

    Music Arranger: Matthias Höfs. Conductor: Riccardo Muti. Ensemble: The Philharmonic Brass.
    • Supreme Classics.
    • 103.
  • 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.
  • Erik Satie

    Valse-ballet

    Performer: Alain Planès.
    • Satie.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.
  • 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.
    • 2.
  • 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.
  • Henryk Wieniawski

    Polonaise de concert

    Performer: Bomsori. Music Arranger: Jerzy Kornowicz. Orchestra: Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero.
    • Violin on Stage.
    • DG.
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in A minor, No 4 Op 6, HWV 322

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Scènes de ballet, Op 52 (3rd mvt, Mazurka)

    Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Marco-Polo.
  • 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.
  • Hubert Parry

    Never weather beaten sail (Songs of Farewell)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Songs of Farewell.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 503.
  • Claude Debussy

    Nocturnes, CD 98

    Conductor: Pierre Boulez. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Colas Breugnon Overture, Op. 24

    Performer: Kathryn Stott. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
  • Margaret Bonds

    Troubled Water

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Fantasie.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.
  • Samuel Wesley

    Symphony in D major (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Matthias Bamert. Orchestra: London Mozart Players.
    • Chandos.
  • Frederick Delius

    Summer Evening

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Chandos.
  • Isaac Albéniz

    Suite española, Op 47 (No 3, 'Sevilla')

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • ѱ徱ٱáԱ.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.
  • 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.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Pavan and Galliard for 6 viols

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • My Days.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1-2.
  • 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.
    • 9.

Broadcast

  • Sun 3 Aug 2025 09:00