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Sarah Walker with a festive musical mix

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning and puts a musical spin on the season.

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, and puts a musical spin on the season.

Sarah finds fresh takes on familiar seasonal tunes, from Buxtehude’s delicate organ rework of a Christmas classic, to the traditional and rousing sound of the Boar’s Head carol...

At 10.30 as part of Radio 3's Light in the Darkness season, Sarah explores a poem that draws parallels between a cat’s eyes and moonlight and we hear it read by Máiréad Tyers, an actor new to Radio 3.

She also plays the winning song from this year’s BBC Radio 3 Carol Competition and ends the morning with a sparkling ballet classic.

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Sun 27 Dec 202009:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Trad.

    The Boar's Head Carol

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • HYPERION.

  • Gustav Holst

    A Somerset Rhapsody Op.21`2

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd‐Jones.
    • NAXOS.

  • Anon

    Suite of Branles

    Ensemble: Newberry Consort. Director: Mary Springfels.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BuxWV 223

    Performer: Martin Ford.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Overture to Les Francs-Juges, Op. 3

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Franz Schubert

    Two Scherzi, D593

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • DECCA.

  • Johann Christian Bach

    Harpsichord Concerto in B flat major, Op. 13 No. 4

    Performer: Raphael Alpermann. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Stephan Mai.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • James Walton

    Christmas Carol

    Music Arranger: Clare Wheeler. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • Bernhard Crusell

    Introduction and Variations on a Swedish Song

    Performer: Martin Fröst. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Colour Suite; Blue Air

    Performer: Paul Guinery.
    • EM RECORDS.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Kunstlerleben, Op. 316

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • DECCA.

  • Claude Debussy

    La plus que lente

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.3: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 19.

  • Carl Nielsen

    The Children are Playing

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud.
    • WARNER.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351

    Conductor: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Trio No 1 in B major, Op 8 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Augustin Dumay. Performer: Maria João Pires. Performer: Jian Wang.
    • Brahms: Piano Trios: Dumay/Pires/Wang.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    In dulci jubilo, TWV.1:939

    Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.
    • Christmas Concertos and Cantatas.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 11-17.

  • Per-Erik Moraeus

    Koppången

    Performer: Bengan Jansson. Performer: Kalle Moraeus. Performer: Svante Henryson. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.
    • DG.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 No. 4 - Sousedska and Op. 46 No. 8 -Furiant

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • DECCA.

  • Trad.

    Eit barn er fodt i Betlehem (A child is born in Bethlehem)

    Performer: Gjermund Larsen. Performer: Rolf Lislevand. Music Arranger: Orjan Matre. Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen. Singer: Bjorn Kjellemyr.
    • BIS.

  • Ludwig Thuille

    Sextet in B flat major Op.6 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Les Vents Français. Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • Les Vents Français - Winds & Piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 121.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    L'Inganno Felice (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Nancy Kerr

    Now is the time

    Performer: Nancy Kerr. Performer: Jess Arrowsmith. Performer: Emily Smith. Performer: James Fagan. Performer: Tim van Eyken.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in F major, Kk469

    Performer: Christophe Rousset.
    • DECCA.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker, Op. 71 TH. 14: Act II No. 13: Waltz of the Flowers

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gavrilin.
    • PHILIPS.

Broadcast

  • Sun 27 Dec 202009:00
    BBC Radio 3