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Sarah Walker with an intriguing musical mix

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, including works by Chopin, Carulli and Bach reimagined by Elgar.

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

Today Sarah starts the day with some musical gems - a Chopin prelude and then a sparkling wind octet, and finds beauty in transcription – from Bach reimagined by Elgar to a moving version of the folk ballad known as The Three Ravens.

Plus, guitar music from Ferdinando Carulli to transport you to an Italian summer…

A Tandem Production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Sun 21 Feb 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 17 in A flat major - Allegretto

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Franz Anton Hoffmeister

    Parthia No. 3 in B flat major

    Orchestra: Consortium Classicum.
    • CPO.
  • Heinrich Isaac

    Angeli, Archangeli

    Choir: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537, orch Elgar

    Orchestrator: Edward Elgar. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic.
    • Bach Transcriptions: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic/Slatkin.
    • Chandos.
    • 7-8.
  • Percy Grainger

    The Three Ravens

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Singer: Colin Campbell. Orchestra: English Country Gardiner Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • The music of Percy Grainger: Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
    • 12.
  • Trad.

    Catch and Kiss the Romp

    Ensemble: Blazin’ Fiddles.
    • Blazin’ Records.
  • William Alwyn

    The Black Tent Suite (reconstructed and arranged by P. Lane)

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Solfeggio in C minor

    Performer: Eugen Cicero. Performer: Charly Antolini. Music Arranger: Eugen Cicero. Singer: Peter Witte.
    • MPS Records.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Le voyage dans la lune: Ballet des flocons de neige

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • DG.
  • Claude Debussy

    Violin Sonata in G minor, L. 140

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Salve Regina HWV241

    Performer: Joseph Crouch. Singer: Grace Davidson. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • Signum.
  • Ferdinando Carulli

    Serenade

    Performer: Guy Lukowski. Performer: Philippe Lemaigre.
    • ARTOP.
  • Isaac Albéniz

    Triana from Iberia

    Orchestrator: Enrique Fernández Arbós. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kenneth Jean.
    • NAXOS.
  • Traditional Lebanese

    Wa Habibi (Beloved)

    Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • NONESUCH.
  • Richard James

    Avril 14

    Performer: Katia & Marielle Labèque.
    • DG.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    La Finta Semplice, K. 51: Sinfonia

    Orchestra: La Cetra Barockorchester Basel. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • DG.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Nocturne in E flat

    Performer: Rachel Carver.
    • RACHEL CARVER.
  • Benny Golson

    Whisper Not

    Performer: Anita O’Day. Performer: Roy Eldridge. Ensemble: The Three Sounds.
    • VERVE.
  • Max Reger

    Romance No. 2 for violin and orchestra in D major, Op. 50/2

    Performer: Hans Maile. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Uroš Lajovic.
    • DG.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in E flat major, Op 31 No 3 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Éric Heidsieck.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • Dustin O’Halloran & Volker Bertelmann

    "Dig" from the soundtrack to Ammonite

    • MILAN.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D, M.82

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Conductor: Lionel Bringuier.
    • DG.

Broadcast

  • Sun 21 Feb 2021 09:00