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Sarah Walker with an energising musical mix

Sarah Walker chooses two hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, including Handel, Prokofiev, Elgar, Barber, JS Bach and Nina Simone.

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

Sarah showcases the elegant playing of harpist Marisa Robles in a concerto by Handel, the verve of two pianists performing a famous gavotte by Prokofiev and the emotional power conjured up by Sir Georg Solti in Elgar’s vivid orchestral poem ‘In the South’.

She also rediscovers a set of 20th-century ‘madrigals’ by Samuel Barber, and finds another way to present the music of JS Bach - a Brandenburg Concerto movement played on cello, drone and tabla.

Plus, is marriage really ‘for old folks’? According to Nina Simone - yes!

A Tandem Production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Sun 13 Mar 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Gavotte (Romeo & Juliet, Op. 64)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Sergei Babayan.
    • DG.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Harp Concerto in B flat, Op. 4 No. 6

    Performer: Marisa Robles. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Iona Brown.
    • DECCA.
  • Jake Runestad

    Let My Love Be Heard

    Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • DECCA.
  • Edward Elgar

    In The South (Alassio), Op. 50

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DECCA.
  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Saxophone Quartet (II. Andante lento)

    Ensemble: Apollo Saxophone Quartet.
    • APOLLO SAXOPHONE QUARTET.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Suite Bourgeoise (V. Valse)

    Performer: Anna Bellagamba. Performer: Morena Mestieri. Performer: Paola Fundaro.
    • LA BOTTEGA DISCANTICA.
  • Jan Ladislav Dussek

    Piano Concerto Op. 22 (I. Allegro non troppo)

    Performer: Andreas Staier. Orchestra: Concerto Köln.
    • CAPRICCIO.
  • Francesca Caccini

    Dolce Maria

    Performer: Amanda Keesmaat. Performer: Luc Beauséjour. Singer: Shannon Mercer.
    • Francesca Caccini: O Viva Rosa.
    • Analekta.
    • 6.
  • Charles Gounod

    Faust, Ballet Music

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DECCA.
  • Mike Block & Sandeep Das

    Brandenburg Meets Taj

    • BRIGHT SHINY THINGS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata No. 20, D. 959 (III. Scherzo - Allegro vivace)

    Performer: Arcadi Volodos.
    • SONY.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 10 (III. Allegretto)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • LPO.
  • George Gershwin

    Fascinatin' Rhythm

    Performer: Yehudi Menuhin. Performer: Stéphane Grappelli. Director: Max Harris.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Samuel Scheidt

    Paduan

    Ensemble: Brisk Recorder Quartet Amsterdam.
    • GLOBE.
  • Alan Langford

    Pizzicato Perpetuo (4 Pieces for string orchestra)

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • WHITE LINE.
  • Samuel Barber

    Reincarnations

    Choir: Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir. Conductor: Paul Spicer.
    • SOMM.
  • Giovanni Benedetto Platti

    Sonata in G major, Op. 3, No. 6

    Performer: Barthold Kuijken. Performer: Wieland Kuijken. Performer: Robert Kohnen.
    • ACCENT.
  • Nina Simone

    Marriage is for Old Folks

    • VERVE.
  • Vsevolod Zaderatsky

    24 Preludes (No. 1 in C major)

    Performer: Jascha Nemtsov.
    • HANSSLER.
  • Vsevolod Zaderatsky

    24 Preludes (No. 3 in G major)

    Performer: Jascha Nemtsov.
    • HANSSLER.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

Broadcast

  • Sun 13 Mar 2022 09:00