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Your perfect Sunday soundtrack

Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to recharge, and get into the rhythm of your Sunday.

This week, Sarah's selections include sparkling Bach from a band that knows its music inside out - Bach Collegium Japan, Chopin performed by award-winning Polish pianist Rafał Blechacz, and a musical wedding cake by Camille Saint-Saëns.

Sarah’s Choral Reflection features the ORA Singers performing a stunning piece by the prodigiously productive Flemish composer Philippe de Monte: Super flumina Babylonis (By the Rivers of Babylon).

Plus, a work by Scottish composer Helen Leach, written from the unique perspective of a bee…

A Tandem Production for ѿý Radio 3.

3 hours

Last on

Sun 17 Aug 2025 09:00

Music Played

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E major, RV 264 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Orchestra: Le Consort.
    • Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.
  • Max Reger

    Romantic Suite, Op 125 (2nd mvt, Scherzo)

    Conductor: Jaime Martín. Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester.
    • Ondine.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 6 in F, Op 68, 'Pastoral' (5th mvt, Finale)

    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: West–Eastern Divan Orchestra.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
  • Helen Leach

    Diary of the Bee (5th mvt, 'Buttercup')

    Performer: John Bradbury. Ensemble: Victoria String Quartet.
    • Divine Art.
  • Erik Satie

    3 Gymnopédies (No 1)

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Jérôme Ducros. Orchestrator: Jérôme Ducros. Conductor: Adrien Perruchon. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris.
    • Satie: Masterpieces.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 38 in D major, K 504 'Prague' (1st mvt)

    Conductor: René Jacobs. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Philippe de Monte

    Super flumina Babylonis

    Choir: ORA Singers. Choir: ORA Singers. Conductor: Suzi Digby. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Upheld by Stillness: Renaissance Gems and their Reflections.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.
    • 01.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op 60

    Performer: Rafał Blechacz.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Aaron Copland

    Rodeo, 4 Dance Episodes (4th mvt, 'Hoe-Down')

    Conductor: David Zinman. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
  • Billy Strayhorn

    Lush Life (arr for 2 guitars)

    Performer: Daniela Rossi. Performer: Francisco Correa. Music Arranger: John Duarte.
    • Deux-Elles Limited.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet No 12 in C minor, D 703, 'Quartettsatz'

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Wedding Cake, Op 76

    Performer: Jean‐Philippe Collard. Conductor: André Previn. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Die zwei blauen Augen

    Music Arranger: Clytus Gottwald. Choir: The Rodolfus Choir. Conductor: Ralph Allwood.
    • Choral Arrangements By Clytus Gottwald.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • Alice Mary Smith

    Andante for Clarinet and Orchestra

    Performer: Angela Malsbury. Conductor: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: London Mozart Players.
    • Chandos.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 851 (The Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1)

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • ECM.
  • Richard Strauss

    Capriccio, Op 85 (Interlude. Mondscheinmusik)

    Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Gloria in D major, RV 589

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat major, H-U 277 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • Christian Badzura

    K A H D (ѿý Session)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Reflections.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 15.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Béatrice et Bénédict, Op 27, H 138 (Ouverture)

    Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Lso Live.
  • John Barry

    Flight into Space (Moonraker)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nic Raine.
    • Barry: Bond Back in Action II.
    • SILVA SCREEN.
    • 08.
  • Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz

    Tarantela

    Music Arranger: Arianna Savall. Performer: Arianna Savall. Performer: Petter Udland Johansen. Performer: Miguel Ángel Cordero.
    • Hirundo Maris - Chants du Sud et du Nord.
    • ECM Records.
    • 10.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G major, Hob XV:25, 'Gypsy Rondo' (3rd mvt, 'Rondo all'ongarese')

    Ensemble: Kungsbacka Trio.
    • Naxos.

Broadcast

  • Sun 17 Aug 2025 09:00