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Your perfect Sunday soundtrack

Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you’re making brunch, or out for a morning stroll.

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

Today, Sarah has some top-notch conductor and composer pairings - Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts Brahms, Sir Simon Rattle takes on Sibelius 5 and Daniel Barenboim brings us Fauré.

This week’s choral reflection is a wonderful, classic recording of Allegri's Miserere, and there's also a terrific recording of Saint-Saëns's Second Piano Concerto in full…

Plus, an overture from George Gershwin which is bursting at the seams with hummable tunes...

A Tandem Production for ѿý Radio 3

3 hours

Last on

Sun 31 Aug 2025 09:00

Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin, M 68a (1st mvt, Prélude)

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • harmonia mundi.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 5 Op 82 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Che gelida manina (La bohème)

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Favourite Tenor Arias: Luciano Pavarotti & Friends.
    • Decca.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without Words in E major, Op.19 no.1

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 19.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Scherzo capriccioso, Op 66, B 131

    Conductor: István Kertész. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
  • Franz Liszt

    Consolation No. 3 in D flat major

    Performer: Grace Francis.
    • QUARTZ.
  • Gregorio Allegri

    Miserere Mei

    Performer: Adrian Lucas. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Director: George Guest.
    • Meridian Records.
  • Sarah Feigin

    Fantasia for Clarinet and Piano

    Performer: Maria Du Toit. Performer: Vera Kooper.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Kurt Atterberg

    Suite No 3 for Violin, Viola and String Orchestra, Op 19

    Performer: Terje Tonnesen. Performer: Lars Anders Tomter. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Nordic Spring.
    • Simax Classics.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G minor, BWV 578, 'The Little'

    Music Arranger: Ronald Romm. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • Decca.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Op 80 (3rd mvt, 'Sicilienne')

    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 73 (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra.
    • The Philadelphia Orchestra.
  • Amy Beach

    Romance Op 23

    Performer: Sterling Elliott. Performer: Richard Uttley.
  • Philip Glass

    String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima": VI. Mishima - Closing

    Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Music Arranger: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Glass: String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima" (Arr. P. Kuusisto for Chamber Orchestra).
    • PENTATONE.
    • 6.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Minuet in G minor, HWV 434 No 4 (arr. for harp & piano by Jan-Peter Klopfel)

    Composer: Jan-Peter Klöpfel. Performer: Xavier de Maistre. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • Minuet in G Minor, HWV 434/4 (Arr. for Harp & Piano by Jan-Peter Klöpfel).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 22, R 190

    Performer: Alexandre Kantorow. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta.
    • BIS.
  • Kurt Weill

    Youkali

    Performer: Joséphine Ambroselli. Performer: Jules Billé. Lyricist: Roger Fernay. Singer: Margaux Poguet.
    • Mirare.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in B flat major, K 196f (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Hansjörg Angerer. Orchestra: Bläserphilharmonie Mozarteum Salzburg.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • George Gershwin

    Girl Crazy (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Don Rose. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Julie Cooper

    The Renaissance Suite (3rd mvt, 'BARRIERA in Gossamer Yellow')

    Performer: Eliza Marshall. Performer: Camilla Pay. Conductor: Jessica Cottis. Ensemble: Oculus Ensemble.
    • Signum Records.
  • Eleanor Daley

    Grandmother Moon

    Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 11.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Recorder Concerto in F major, RV.442 (3rd mvmt, Allegro)

    Performer: Frans Brüggen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century.
    • Vivaldi: Concerti for Flute, Strings and Basso continuo, Op.10, Nos. 1-6; Marcel.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 15.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Corsaire, Op 21, H 101B

    Conductor: Andrew Davis. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

Broadcast

  • Sun 31 Aug 2025 09:00