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An inspiring classical selection for Sunday

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

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

Today, Handel takes a trip down the River Thames, Althea Waites brings Florence Price’s piano music to life, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra find delight in Delius.

There’s a timeless psalm setting from Dobrinka Tabakova, and while guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas gently welcomes the morning with music by Torroba, Rossini opts for a more theatrical start to the day.

Sarah will also be celebrating the Nightingale, with a selection of music inspired by the birds to celebrate the centenary of the famed BBC broadcast of Cellist Beatrice Harrison duetting with Nightingales in her garden.

Plus, a haunting waltz written by Toru Takemitsu for the silver screen...

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3

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Sun 19 May 202409:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto No. 13 in F major, 'Cuckoo and the Nightingale' (II. Allegro)

    Performer: Simon Preston. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • DG ARCHIV.

  • Frederick Delius

    Idylle de Printemps

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Franz Schubert

    An die Nachtigall, D. 497

    Performer: Roger Vignoles. Singer: Elizabeth Watts.
    • RCA.

  • Thomas Weelkes

    The Nightingale (26 Ayres or Phantasticke Spirites)

    Ensemble: The King’s Singers.
    • WARNER.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581, 'Stadler' (IV. Allegretto con variazioni)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Ensemble: Wiener Streichsextett.
    • WARNER.

  • Camilla de Rossi

    Sant'Alessio (Introduction)

    Ensemble: Musica Fiorita. Director: Daniela Dolci.
    • Pan Classics.

  • Enrique Granados

    Melodic Waltz (Valses poeticos, No. 1)

    Performer: Douglas Riva.
    • NAXOS.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, Op. 55)

    Orchestra: Malmö SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • NAXOS.

  • Archduke Rudolph of Austria

    Six Dances for Solo Clarinet (No. 6 in F major)

    Performer: Luigi Magistrelli.
    • BRILLIANT.

  • Alun Hoddinott

    Folksong Suite

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • MARCO POLO.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Havanaise, Op. 83

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • DG.

  • Franz Liszt

    The Nightingale

    Performer: Adilia Alieva.
    • VDE-GALLO.

  • Manning Sherwin

    A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

    Lyricist: Eric Maschwitz. Music Arranger: Jim Clements. Ensemble: VOCES8.

  • Maurizio Cazzati

    La Strozza

    Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Frühlingslied (Vier Lieder, Op. 100, No. 3)

    Choir: Netherlands Chamber Choir.
    • GLOBE.

  • François Couperin

    Pieces de clavecin, Livre II, Ordre 8 (VII. Rondeau)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • HYPERION.

  • William Mathias

    Serenade: Allegretto

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • MARCO POLO.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat, Op. 100/D.929 (II. Andante)

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Performer: Pinchas Zukerman. Performer: Lynn Harrell.
    • DECCA.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Arise Lord into Thy Rest

    Singer: Julie Cooper. Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture Op.96

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Donald Swann

    Margate 1940

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Christopher Glynn.
    • HYPERION.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Lemminkainen, Op. 22 (II. The Swan of Tuonela)

    Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Susanna Mälkki.
    • BIS.

  • Florence Price

    Dance of the Cotton Blossoms

    Performer: Althea Waites.
    • Black Diamonds.
    • Cambria.
    • 007.

  • Toru Takemitsu

    Waltz (Face of Another)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • NAXOS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music Suite No. 1 in F

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.

  • Jacob van Eyck

    English Nightingale (Der Fluyten Lust-Hof)

    Performer: Lucie Horsch.
    • NAXOS.

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    El Canto del Ruiseñor, Op. 29

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Performer: Milana Chernyavska.
    • NAXOS.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet no.14 in A flat major Op.105 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Dvorak: String Quartets: Takacs Quartet.
    • Decca.
    • 11.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore, Act 2)

    Singer: Juan Diego Flórez. Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Conductor: Riccardo Frizza.
    • DECCA.

Broadcast

  • Sun 19 May 202409:00
    BBC Radio 3