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A perfect classical Sunday selection

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re out for a walk or enjoying a lie-in.

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.

Sarah’s selections include a Mozart concerto that places the French horn centre stage, a sparkling Couperin performance from Alexandre Tharaud, and a musical trip to Seville with the Paris Orchestra.

The morning also takes a step into the fantastical as Arnold Bax narrates a Gaelic folk tale through the Ulster Orchestra, and a William Blake watercolour inspires a haunting Ruth Gipps tone-poem.

Plus Polish composer Henryk Górecki offers radiant choral harmonies in a declaration to the Virgin Mary.

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

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Sun 11 Feb 202409:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de Matin

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • SONY.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Ouverture-Suite in A minor, TWV 55:a2 (V Réjouissance. Viste)

    Performer: Dan Laurin. Ensemble: Arte dei Suonatori.
    • BIS.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in A Minor, Op. Posth., B.150

    Performer: Vittorio Forte.
    • AEVEA.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op.29, 'Polish' (IV. Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • DECCA.

  • Henry Purcell

    Fantasia No. 7 a 4, Z.738

    Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • SIMAX.

  • François Couperin

    L'Atalante (Pièces de Clavecin, Livre II, 6e ordre, Livre II, 12e ordre)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

    Totus Tuus

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • DECCA.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto no.2 in E flat major K.417

    Performer: Timothy Brown. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Sigiswald Kuijken.
    • ERATO.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Cameos, Op.56 (III. Andante)

    Performer: Waka Hasegawa.
    • METROPOLIS GROUP.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Love sound the alarm (Acis and Galatea)

    Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Orchestra: Handel and Haydn Society. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Decca.

  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen Suite No. 1

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

    12 Polonaises, F. 12 (No. 8 in E Minor)

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • DG.

  • Franz Liszt

    Grand galop chromatique

    Performer: Leslie Howard.
    • Liszt: Dances and Marches.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Jennifer Higdon

    All Things Majestic (II. String Lake)

    Orchestra: Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero.
    • NAXOS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Magnificat in D major, BWV 243 (I. Magnificat anima mea)

    Ensemble: Bach‐Collegium Stuttgart. Conductor: Helmuth Rilling.
    • HANSSLER.

  • Arnold Bax

    Summer Music

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • David Baker

    Calypso (Jazz Suite '3 Ethnic dances')

    Performer: Alan Balter. Orchestra: Akron Symphony Orchestra.
    • American Voices: The African-American Composers' Project.
    • TELARC.
    • 9.

  • Claude Debussy

    Images, book 1, L. 110 - I. Reflets dans l'eau

    Performer: Philip Chiu.
    • ATMA.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 5 in C minor (II. Andante con moto)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Thomas Zehetmair.
    • ECM.

  • Toru Takemitsu

    Wings (version for chorus)

    Choir: SWR Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart. Conductor: Marcus Creed.
    • SWR MUSIC.

  • Miguel Llobet Solés

    Scherzo - Vals

    Performer: Lorenzo Micheli.
    • NAXOS.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in D major, RV.234, 'L'Inquietudine'

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • ONYX.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in E flat Major, Op.117, No. 1

    Performer: Kun Woo Paik.
    • DG.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Symphony No. 3 (III. Scherzo)

    Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Carl Reinecke

    Wind Octet in B flat, Op. 216 (II. Scherzo vivace)

    Ensemble: Wind Octet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
    • ETCETERA.

  • Karl Jenkins

    Stabat Mater - VII. And The Mother Did Weep

    Singer: Belinda Sykes. Singer: Jurgita Adamonyte. Ensemble: Emo Ensemble Finland. Choir: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Pasi Hyökki.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Steve Reich

    Duet for 2 violins & strings

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simos Papanas. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel.
    • DG.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 49 (Finale)

    Ensemble: ATOS Trio.
    • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Piano Trios 1 & 2.
    • CPO.
    • 4.

  • Joseph Canteloube

    Bailero (Chants D'Auvergne, Vol. 1 No. 2)

    Singer: Frederica von Stade. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Antonio de Almeida.
    • SONY.

Broadcast

  • Sun 11 Feb 202409:00
    BBC Radio 3