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Your perfect Sunday soundtrack

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you’re having a lie-in or making brunch.

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

In today’s programme, Sarah’s choices include music inspired by literature with Eric Whitacre’s setting of a Rudyard Kipling poem, and Byron transformed for the stage by Robert Schumann. Plus, Tafelmusik rejoice in music by Handel.

There’s also music from Francesca Caccini - star of the 17th-century Medici court, and Dvorak’s famous New World Symphony is brought to life by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Plus, George Gershwin is crazy about the Girl…

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3

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Sun 3 Nov 202409:00
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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: IV. La Réjouissance

    Conductor: Jeanne Lamon. Orchestra: Tafelmusik.
    • Händel: Wassermusik, Feuerwerksmusik.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 22.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Barcarolle from Les Contes d'Hoffman

    Performer: Nemanja Radulović. Performer: Camille Thomas. Music Arranger: Aleksander Sedlar. Ensemble: Double Sens.
    • DG.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    3 Duette auf Texte von Heinrich Heine (I. Wenn ich in deine Augen)

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Barbara Bonney. Singer: Angelika Kirchschlager.
    • SONY.

  • Sergey Akhunov

    Sketch III

    Performer: Ksenija Sidorova.
    • Crossroads.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 2.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.8 in G major 'Le Soir' (I. Allegro Molto)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cello Sonata No.2 in G minor, Op.117 (II. Andante)

    Performer: Kathryn Stott. Performer: Christian Poltéra.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Eric Whitacre

    The Seal Lullaby

    Lyricist: Rudyard Kipling. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Eventide.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.

  • John Dowland

    Prelude, P. 98

    • Dowland, J.: Lute Music, Vol. 1 - Fancyes, Dreams and Spirits.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Robert Schumann

    Overture Manfred, Op. 115

    Conductor: Christian Thielemann. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Schumann: Symphony No.2; "Manfred" Overture; Konzertstück for 4 Horns.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Philip Glass

    Concerto for Saxophone Quartet (Movement IV)

    • ORANGE MOUNTAIN.

  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G Minor, Z. 730

    Conductor: Giovanni Antonini. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • The Collected Recordings of Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 211.

  • Nathaniel Dett

    In the Bottoms, 1913: Morning - Barcarolle

    Composer: R. Nathaniel Dett. Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • An American Journey.
    • DTR.
    • 19.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Quartet No. 3 in C major, K. 285b: I. Allegro

    Performer: Jasmine Choi.
    • Mozart: Five Quartets with Flute.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Overture: The Barber of Seville

    Lyricist: Cesare Sterbini. Lyricist: Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Lyricist: Giuseppe Petrosellini. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • ドイツ・グラモフォン　ベスト・オブ・ベスト.
    • Universal Music LLC.
    • 2.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Virga jesse floruit, WAB 52

    Conductor: Nigel Short. Ensemble: Tenebrae.
    • Brahms & Bruckner: Motets.
    • Signum Records.
    • 2.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Fantasie in G major WAB 118

    Performer: Fumiko Shiraga.
    • BIS.

  • Ronald Binge

    The Watermill

    Conductor: Iain Sutherland. Orchestra: Iain Sutherland Concert Orchestra.
    • British Classical Music Masterpieces.
    • Menuetto Classics.
    • 24.

  • Pauline Viardot

    Violin Sonatina in A Minor (III. Allegro finale)

    • Pauline Viardot: Violin Sonatina - Paul Viardot: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • John Tavener

    Song for Athene

    Choir: ORA Singers. Conductor: Suzi Digby.

  • Claudin de Sermisy

    Las, je my plains

    • Les Plaisirs du Palais.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 13.

  • Domenico Cimarosa

    Sonata No. 55 in A Minor

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Music Arranger: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Mozart & Contemporaries.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.

  • George Gershwin

    Girl Crazy: Overture

    Music Arranger: Don Rose. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Second Rhapsody, An American in Paris & 4 Overtures.
    • Sony Music Media.
    • 5.

  • Francesca Caccini

    Romanesca

    Ensemble: Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini.
    • BRILLIANT.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no.9 in E minor Op.95 'From the New World' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Ludovic Morlot.
    • Dvořák: Complet Symphonies - Legends - Slavonic Dances & Czech Suite.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 52.

  • Kerensa Briggs

    Media vita

    Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • Media Vita.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lute Suite in E Minor, BWV 996 (II. Allemande)

    Performer: John Williams. Music Arranger: John Williams.
    • John Williams plays Bach.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13.

  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

    String Quartet no. 4 in C major: iii. Tema con variazione

    Ensemble: Gewandhaus Quartet.
    • ETERNA.

  • François Couperin

    Les Baricades Mistérieuses

    Music Arranger: Thomas Adès. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Insomnia.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Peggy Glanville-Hicks

    Etruscan Concerto (I. Promenade)

    Performer: Keith Jarrett. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies. Orchestra: Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Harrison: Seven Pastorales; Glanville-Hicks: Etruscan Concerto; Riley: June Budd.
    • Musical Heritage Society.
    • 1.

  • Sammy Fain

    12 Songs for Guitar (Arr. T. Takemitsu for Guitar): No. 7, Secret Love

    Performer: Shin-Ichi Fukuda.
    • Japanese Guitar Music, Vol. 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade no.3 in A flat major Op.47

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • Vítezslav Novák

    Slovak Suite, Op. 32: I. In the Church

    Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • SUPRAPHON.

Broadcast

  • Sun 3 Nov 202409:00
    BBC Radio 3