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.
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Music Played
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Clair Omar Musser
Etudes Op.6 (no.10 in C major)
Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.- RCA.
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Teresa Carreño
Mi Teresita [Little Waltz]
Performer: Gabriela Montero.- WARNER.
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Johann Pachelbel
Suite no.5 in C major [Musikalische Ergötzung, 1695]
Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Conductor: Amandine Beyer.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Edvard Grieg
March of the Trolls (Lyric Pieces Op.54)
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.- Grieg: Lyric Pieces: Leif Ove Andsnes.
- EMI Classics.
- 9.
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Francisco Tárrega
Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Performer: Ning Feng. Music Arranger: Ruggiero Ricci.- CHANNEL CLASSICS.
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tu es Petrus
Ensemble: Ensemble Plus Ultra. Director: Michael Noone.- De Victoria: Sacred Works.
- Archiv.
- 01.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27
Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.- LINN.
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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.
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Claude Debussy
La plus que lente
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.- SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY.
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Hauschka
Hike
Performer: Hauschka.- SONY.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Oboe Concerto in C, K 314 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.- BIS.
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Trad.
She moved through the fair
Performer: Edin Karamazov. Performer: Stacey Shames. Singer: Andreas Scholl.- DECCA.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Symphony in E major, Wq 182 No 6
Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- Archiv.
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Clara Schumann
Nocturne (Soirées musicales)
Performer: Lucy Parham.- CIRRUS CLASSICS.
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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.
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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.
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Franz Liszt
Gnomenreigen (2 Concert Etudes, S 145 No 2)
Performer: Daniil Trifonov.- Transcendental.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 002.
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Charles Williams
Devil's Galop
Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.- British Light Music Classics vol.1.
- Hyperion.
- 9.
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Alexandre Guilmant
Sonata No. 1 in D minor for organ, Op. 42 Finale
Performer: Olivier Latry.- Naive.
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon duodecimi toni à 8 (Sacrae symphoniae, 1597)
Ensemble: Oltremontano. Director: Wim Becu.- Accent.
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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.
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Edward Elgar
Symphony no.1 in A flat major Op.55 (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.- Decca.
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Michiru Oshima
Memories
Performer: Hilary Hahn. Performer: Cory Smythe.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Heinrich Schütz
Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- SOLI DEO GLORIA.
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Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No 2 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Emanuel Ax. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- SONY.
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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.
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