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

Today, there’s music full of optimism, from Bach’s joyous Cantata ‘My soul magnifies the Lord’ to light music by Ronald Binge, renamed ‘Elizabethan Serenade’ in 1952 when Elizabeth II became Queen, and there’s also Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.

This week’s choral reflection is Poulenc’s prayer to the Virgin Mary - Salve Regina - both flowing and declamatory with all the familiar twists and turns of Poulenc’s angular and beautiful melodies…

Plus, we’re treated to the whole of one of Mozart’s most beloved piano concertos…