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Your perfect Sunday soundtrack

Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you’re curled up with a book, tending to your garden, or simply enjoying a moment of calm.

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

Today, Sarah shares a grand concerto by Handel designed to be performed outdoors, one of Purcell’s most expressive melodies, a lively part song by Saint-Saëns, and a piece that reminds her of a Sunday Morning broadcast from Iceland at the start of the year.

There’s also encouragement to venture out into the sunshine in one of Percy Grainger’s lively arrangements of Country Gardens, and a work by Howard Skempton with rich orchestration that, for Sarah, comes directly from the heart.

Plus, a song by Schubert that’s a homage to the poet’s ‘beloved moon’...

A Tandem Production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3

Release date:

3 hours

On radio

Sun 18 May 2025 09:00

Broadcast

  • Sun 18 May 2025 09:00