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Sarah Walker

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.

Sarah Walker plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1100 Essential Five – this week we focus on the mighty double bass.

1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 28 Oct 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Clair Omar Musser

    Etudes Op.6 (no.10 in C major)

    Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • RCA.
  • Teresa Carreño

    Mi Teresita [Little Waltz]

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • WARNER.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Suite no.5 in C major [Musikalische Ergötzung, 1695]

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Conductor: Amandine Beyer.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Edvard Grieg

    March of the Trolls (Lyric Pieces Op.54)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Grieg: Lyric Pieces: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • Francisco Tárrega

    Recuerdos de la Alhambra

    Performer: Ning Feng. Music Arranger: Ruggiero Ricci.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Tu es Petrus

    Ensemble: Ensemble Plus Ultra. Director: Michael Noone.
    • De Victoria: Sacred Works.
    • Archiv.
    • 01.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27

    Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • LINN.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in A Major Op.20 no.6 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 20 Nos. 4-6.
    • BIS.
    • 12.
  • Claude Debussy

    La plus que lente

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY.
  • Hauschka

    Hike

    Performer: Hauschka.
    • SONY.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Oboe Concerto in C, K 314 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.
    • BIS.
  • Trad.

    She moved through the fair

    Performer: Edin Karamazov. Performer: Stacey Shames. Singer: Andreas Scholl.
    • DECCA.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in E major, Wq 182 No 6

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Archiv.
  • Clara Schumann

    Nocturne (Soirées musicales)

    Performer: Lucy Parham.
    • CIRRUS CLASSICS.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite Op.11 (Alla marcia)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Sibelius: Symphony No.5/Karelia Suite etc: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • Erato.
    • 6.
  • Benjamin Britten

    A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.64 (I Know A Bank)

    Singer: James Bowman. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • VIRGIN.
  • Franz Liszt

    Gnomenreigen (2 Concert Etudes, S 145 No 2)

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • Transcendental.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 002.
  • Charles Williams

    Devil's Galop

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics vol.1.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Alexandre Guilmant

    Sonata No. 1 in D minor for organ, Op. 42 Finale

    Performer: Olivier Latry.
    • Naive.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon duodecimi toni à 8 (Sacrae symphoniae, 1597)

    Ensemble: Oltremontano. Director: Wim Becu.
    • Accent.
  • Franz Schubert

    Trout Quintet in A major, D.667 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Veronika Hagen. Performer: Lukas Hagen. Performer: Clemens Hagen. Performer: Alois Posch. Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • Schubert: Trout Quintet: Schiff, Hagen Quartet.
    • Decca.
    • 004.
  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony no.1 in A flat major Op.55 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Decca.
  • Michiru Oshima

    Memories

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Performer: Cory Smythe.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Heinrich Schütz

    Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No 2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • SONY.
  • Isaac Albéniz

    Sevilla (Suite espagnola)

    Music Arranger: Pepe Romero. Music Arranger: Francisco Tárrega. Performer: Pepe Romero.
  • Béla Bartók

    Concerto for Orchestra (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Susanna Mälkki.
    • Bartók: Orchestral Works.
    • BIS.
    • 9.

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