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Sarah Walker with a musical mix for spring

Sarah Walker chooses a mixture of sounds and music to complement the changing of the season. Includes music by Beethoven, Rossini, JS Bach and Amy Beach.

Sarah Walker chooses a mixture of pastoral and outdoor sounds and music to complement the changing of the season.

Radio 3鈥檚 Countdown to Spring culminates this morning as Sarah chooses a selection of music that looks forward to brighter and warmer days ahead.

Including fresh green pastures explored with Beethoven and Rossini, the blossoming imagination of JS Bach, and Amy Beach鈥檚 celebratory song 鈥楾he Year鈥檚 At the Spring鈥.

Plus, some interwoven sounds of nature to bring the outside in鈥

A Tandem Production for 大象传媒 Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Sun 21 Mar 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Hopak from 'Sorochintsy Fair'

    Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. Conductor: Theodore Kuchar.
    • NAXOS.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Pastorale for oboe, bassoon & continuo

    Performer: Giovanni de Angeli. Performer: Sergio Azzolini. Ensemble: Streicherakademie Bozen.
    • SONY.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    William Tell (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Rossini: Overtures: Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Thomas Morley

    It was a lover and his lasse

    Performer: Jacob Heringman. Singer: Barbara Bonney.
    • DECCA.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Passacaglia and fugue in C minor, BWV 582

    Orchestrator: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jos茅 Serebrier.
    • NAXOS.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Symphony No. 1 - I. Pastoral - Moderement anime

    Orchestra: Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alun Francis.
    • CPO.
  • Muriel Herbert

    To Daffodils

    Singer: Caroline MacPhie. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • STONE RECORDS.
  • Max Richter

    On the Nature of Daylight

    Performer: Louisa Fuller. Performer: John Metcalfe. Performer: Philip Sheppard. Performer: Chris Worsey.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Green - Melodies de Venise Op. 58

    Performer: Jacqueline Robin. Singer: G茅rard Souzay.
    • REGIS.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Pan (from Metamorphoses after Ovid Op. 49)

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel.
    • OBOE CLASSICS.
  • Traditional Swedish

    Uti var hage

    Ensemble: The Real Group. Director: Eric Ericson.
    • The Real Group Records.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • TELDEC.
  • The Dangerous Kitchen

    Boing

    Ensemble: The Dangerous Kitchen.
    • TALLGUY RECORDS.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    The Carnival of the Animals - a Zoological Fantasy: Cuckoo in the heart of the woods

    Performer: John Ogdon. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Fr茅maux.
    • EMI.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 6 in F major, Op 68, 'Pastoral' (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Singer: Charlotte Margiono. Singer: Rudolf Schasching. Singer: Birgit Remmert. Singer: Robert Holl. Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chorus. Conductor: Erwin Ortner.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.
    • 1.
  • Trad.

    Five sheep, four goats

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Performer: Mads la Cour. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • dacapo.
  • 罢谤盲诲

    O Fredrik, O Fredrik

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • DACAPO.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of youth - suite no. 2 Op.1b (March)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • The Wand Of Youth Suites etc..
    • Halle.
    • 8.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of youth - suite no.2 Op.1b (The Tame Bear)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • The Wand Of Youth Suites etc..
    • Halle.
    • 9.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of youth - suite no. 2 (Op.1b), Moths and Butterflies (Dance)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
  • Amy Beach

    The Year's at the Spring

    Performer: Brian Zeger. Singer: Deborah Voigt.
    • EMI.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    April; May (Das Jahr)

    Performer: Lauma Skride.
    • Sony.
  • Crist贸bal de Morales

    Jubilate Deo Omnis Terra

    Choir: Contrapunctus. Director: Owen Rees.
    • Signum.
  • Tom Waits

    You Can Never Hold Back Spring

    • CONCORD RECORDS.
  • Ji艡铆 Anton铆n Benda

    Symphony No. 7 in D Major

    Orchestra: Prague Sinfonia Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Benda.
    • SONY.
  • Richard Wagner

    Siegfried (Act 2, Sc 2: Forest Murmurs)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Klaus Tennstedt.
    • Wagner: Orchestral music from 'The Ring': Berlin Philharmonic/Tennstedt.
    • EMI.
  • Pieter de Graaf

    Dew Drops

    Performer: Pieter de Graaf.
    • SONY.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Reel (4 Scottish Dances Op.59)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Irving.
    • Arnold: Homage to the Queen etc, PO / Irving.
    • EMI.
    • 40.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Four Scottish Dances, Op 59 (No 3, Scottish Waltz)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Irving.
    • Arnold: Homage to the Queen etc, PO / Irving.
    • EMI.
    • 41.
  • Jean Fran莽aix

    L'Horloge de Flore

    Performer: Lajos Lencs茅s. Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Uri Segal.
    • CPO.

Broadcast

  • Sun 21 Mar 2021 09:00