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A vibrant Sunday morning mix

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

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

This morning, Schubert’s most famous quintet is reimagined by Liszt in a virtuosic piano transcription, percussionist Colin Currie explores the hypnotic music of Steve Reich, and there’s music by two members of the Bach dynasty.

There's also a gentle Romance from Cecile Chaminade and Voces8 find shimmers of light in a Norwegian choral masterpiece.

Plus, John Barry takes us beyond...

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3

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Sun 14 Apr 202409:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Francis Poulenc

    Flute Sonata FP. 164 (I. Allegro malinconico)

    Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Music Arranger: Lennox Berkeley. Orchestra: Hague Residentie Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • BIS.

  • Daniel Bacheler

    Galliard

    Performer: Paul O’Dette.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Franz Schubert

    Die Forelle, S.564 (after Schubert, D.550)

    Performer: Jorge Bolet.
    • DECCA.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 104 in D major, Hob I:104 (IV. Finale. Spiritoso)

    Orchestra: Heidelberger Sinfoniker. Conductor: Thomas Fey.
    • HANSSLER.

  • Luke Howard

    Dappled Light

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • DECCA.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 (II. Larghetto)

    Performer: Maria João Pires. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • DG.

  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite - Pied-en-l'air

    Performer: Nicholas Kraemer. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • DECCA.

  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite - Mattachins (Sword Dance)

    Performer: Nicholas Kraemer. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • DECCA.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    Hosanna to the Son of David

    Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • HELIOS.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer night's dream - incidental music (Op.61), Entr'acte / Intermezzo

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream; Tate.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Rachel Barton Pine

    Medley of Scots Tunes

    Performer: Rachel Barton Pine. Performer: Alasdair Fraser. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Platt.
    • Cedille.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    6 Romances sans paroles, Op. 76 (VI. Méditation)

    Performer: Daria van den Bercken.
    • DOORWAY MUSIC.

  • Gustav Holst

    Mercury, the winged messenger (The Planets, Op.32)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • LSO LIVE.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Piano Trio (II. 'Der Mutte der Einfachkeit')

    Ensemble: Neave Trio.
    • CHANDOS.

  • John Barry

    The beyondness of things

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • DECCA.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV 10, 'Meine Seel erhebt den Herren'

    Singer: Lisa Larsson. Singer: Daniel Taylor. Singer: James Gilchrist. Singer: Stephen Varcoe. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SDG.

  • Nils Frahm

    Late

    Performer: Nils Frahm.
    • BMG.

  • Léo Delibes

    Mazurka (Coppelia, Act 1)

    Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • WARNER.

  • Jacques Ibert

    Matin sur l'eau

    Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • SONY.

  • Steve Reich

    Nagoya Marimbas

    Performer: Colin Currie. Performer: Sam Walton.
    • WARNER.

  • Johann Christian Bach

    Symphony in E flat major Op. 6/2 (V. Presto)

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Stephan Mai.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104 (I. Adagio - Piu andante - Allegro non troppo)

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Pärt Uusberg

    Ohtul

    Choir: Montclair State University Singers. Conductor: Heather Buchanan.
    • MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102 (III. Allegro)

    Performer: Simon Trpceski. Orchestra: Janáčkova filharmonie Ostrava. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru.
    • LINN.

  • Andrew Litton

    Basin Street Blues

    • BIS.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo & Juliet Suite No. 2 (II. Juliet as a young girl)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • BIS.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo and Juliet Suite no.2 (Dance)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • BIS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Komm, libe Zither, komm K.351

    Performer: Mathieu Pordoy. Singer: Sabine Devieilhe.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Missy Mazzoli

    Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)

    Orchestra: Arctic Philharmonic. Conductor: Tim Weiss.
    • BIS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Allegro in C minor, HWV 408

    Performer: Andrew Manze. Performer: Richard Egarr.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Ben Parry

    Lighten Our Darkness

    Conductor: Rupert Gough. Choir: Choir of Royal Holloway.
    • The Hours: Choral Music by Ben Parry.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 2101.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Espana

    Ensemble: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Escales.
    • Chandos.
    • 01.

Broadcast

  • Sun 14 Apr 202409:00
    BBC Radio 3