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Your perfect Sunday soundtrack

Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you鈥檙e preparing for a day out or enjoying a long lie in.

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

Today, there鈥檚 warming orchestral music from Sibelius, the sound of rain realised in a Chopin prelude, while Aaron Copland conjures up the dusty heat of the Wild West.

Sarah also shares a piece written about the Apollo moon landings, a classic recording of Wagner and a string piece by George Walker which will send shivers down your spine.

Plus, music inspired by a haiku about a stray cat鈥�

A Tandem Production for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Sun 9 Mar 2025 09:00
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Music Played

  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Dance of the Shepherd Girl

    Conductor: Ari Rasilainen. Orchestra: Norwegian Radio Orchestra.
    • Rustle of Spring.
    • Fazer Records/Finlandia.
    • 12.

  • Niels Wilhelm Gade

    Allegretto Grazioso in A major

    Performer: Anker Blyme.
    • Dacapo.

  • Joanna Marsh

    Now I lay

    Conductor: Robert Hollingworth. Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Ensemble: Voces 8.
    • A Plastic Theatre (Choral Works by Joanna Marsh).
    • Signum Records.
    • 2.

  • L茅o Delibes

    Copp茅lia (Act 1: Valse)

    Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Naxos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Fantasy for a Musical Clock in F minor, K 608 (arr for wind quintet)

    Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bl盲serquintett Berlin.
    • BIS.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Pr茅lude in G sharp minor, No 12 Op 32

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Labyrinth: Ephemera.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Antonio Lotti

    Concerto for Oboe d'Amore, Strings and Continuo in A (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Orchestra: New Seasons Ensemble.
    • In Venice.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
    • 13.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Six Elizabethan Pastorals, Op 49 (Set 1: No 3, 'Diaphenia')

    Lyricist: Henry Constable. Conductor: Harry Christophers. Ensemble: The Sixteen.
    • CORO.

  • Mario Castelnuovo鈥怲edesco

    Sea Murmurs

    Performer: Braimah Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Jeneba Kanneh鈥怣ason. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
    • DECCA.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 43 (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Sakari Oramo. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics International.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 (arr for saxophone quartet)

    Ensemble: Ferio Saxophone Quartet.
    • Revive.
    • Chandos.
    • 117.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Komm, susser Tod (Come, Sweet Death)

    Choir: Sansara. Conductor: Tom Herring.
    • Traces.
    • Platoon.
    • 04.

  • John Adams

    The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra)

    Conductor: Edo de Waart. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Prelude in D flat major, 'Raindrop' (24 Preludes, Op 28: No 15)

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Echoes Of Life.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 18.

  • Kurt Weill

    Youkali

    Lyricist: Roger Fernay. Singer: Barbara Hannigan. Orchestra: Ludwig Orchestra.
    • Dance With Me.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.

  • Linda Wood

    Haikus for the Harp (No 1, 'A Stray Cat')

    Composer: Susan McDonald. Performer: Silke Aichhorn.
    • Hormusik.

  • Manuel de Falla

    7 Spanish Folksongs arr for viola and piano (No 5, 'Nana')

    Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Javier Perianes.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • George Frideric Handel

    The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)

    Director: Jeanne Lamon. Orchestra: Tafelmusik.
    • A Baroque Feast.
    • Analekta.
    • 1.

  • Clyde Otis

    This Bitter Earth / On The Nature Of Daylight

    Composer: Max Richter. Performer: Louisa Fuller. Performer: Natalia Bonner. Performer: John Metcalfe. Performer: Philip Sheppard. Performer: Chris Worsey. Lyricist: Clyde Otis. Singer: Dinah Washington.
    • The Blue Notebooks (20 Year Edition).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 9.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

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

    • GFN Classics.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No 2 in C major, Op 61 (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Antiphona caritas abundat

    Performer: Hana Bla啪铆kov谩. Lyricist: Anon..
    • Ricercar.

  • Aaron Copland

    Rodeo (1st mvt, 'Buckaroo Holiday')

    Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony.
    • RCA Red Seal.

  • Hermann von Reichenau

    Salve Regina

    Singer: Anna Sandstr枚m. Ensemble: Armonico Consort. Conductor: Christopher Monks.
    • Signum Records.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis et Chlo茅, M 57d (Tableau I: 4th mvt, 'Danse l茅g猫re et gracieuse de Daphnis') arr piano

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Fragments.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Conductor: Daniel Harding. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.

  • Anne Nikitin

    Sistine Chapel (The Moonwalkers)

    • The Moonwalkers (Original Soundtrack).
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 8.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in B minor, Hob XVI:32 (3rd mvt, Finale)

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Mozart & Contemporaries.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.

  • Richard Wagner

    Tannh盲user (Overture)

    Conductor: Georg Solti. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Wagner: Orchestral Favourites.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
    • 4.

  • Morten Lauridsen

    Se per havervi, oime (Madrigali, 6 Fireongs on Italian Renaissance Poems: No 6)

    Lyricist: Trad.. Choir: Chamber Choir of Europe. Conductor: Nicol Matt.
    • Light Eternal 鈥� The Choral Music of Morten Lauridsen.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 9.

  • George Walker

    Lyric for Strings

    Conductor: Kellen Gray. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • African American Voices.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Sun 9 Mar 2025 09:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3