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Sarah Walker with a rousing musical mix

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re cooking breakfast or going for a stroll.

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

Today, Sarah celebrates the joy of music making with JS Bach’s uplifting and energising double violin concerto, and finds spirited, bombastic orchestral writing in William Schuman’s American Festival Overture.

There’s also the peaceful lilt of Franghiz Ali-Zadeh’s ‘Fantasie’ for solo guitar, and the scherzo from Louise Farrenc’s Piano Quintet No.1 shows her writing at its most virtuosic.

Plus, Sarah explores Arthur Sullivan’s ‘Irish’ symphony, written when he was 21 years old...

A Tandem Production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Sun 9 Oct 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Thomas Dunhill

    Symphony in A minor, Op. 48 (II. Prestissimo)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Yates.
    • DUTTON.
  • Francis Pott

    At First Light (Daybreak)

    Choir: Commotio. Performer: Joseph Spooner. Director: Matthew Berry.
    • NAXOS.
  • Ferruccio Busoni

    Sonata No. 3, 'ad usum infantis'

    Performer: Thomas Adès.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for 2 violins in D minor, BWV 1043

    Performer: Andrew Manze. Performer: Rachel Podger. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • La Bottine Souriante

    La Ziguezon

    • MILLE-PATTES.
  • Michael Praetorius

    Terpsichore (XXVIII. Spagnoletta)

    Ensemble: Flautando Köln.
    • ARS MUSICI.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No. 5 in B flat (III. Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • BR KLASSIK.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Amor dormiglione Op.2 no.22

    Singer: Suzie LeBlanc. Ensemble: Ensemble Constantinople.
    • ANALEKTA.
  • Max Richter

    Path 3 (7676) - Pt. 1

    Singer: Grace Davidson.
    • DG.
  • William Schuman

    American Festival Overture

    Orchestra: St Louis Chamber Chorus. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • RCA.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    He who would valiant be, 'Monk's Gate'

    Performer: Christopher Allsop. Choir: Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Richard Marlow.
    • MASTERWORKS.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Phantasy Quintet (III. Alla Sarabanda)

    Ensemble: Maggini Quartet.
    • NAXOS.
  • Franghiz Ali-Zadeh

    Fantasie

    Performer: Zsófia Boros.
    • ECM.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Symphony in E major, 'Irish' (I. Andante)

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Violin Sonata No.1 in F minor, Op. 80 (III. Andante)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Itamar Golan.
    • DECCA.
  • Antonio Rosetti

    Bassoon Concerto No. 2 in F major

    Performer: Eckart Hübner. Ensemble: Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein.
    • CPO.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    The Chariot Jubilee

    Performer: Nathaniel Gumbs. Singer: Roderick George. Choir: The Aeolians. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Jason Max Ferdinand.
    • GIA CHORALWORKS.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Piano Quintet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 30 (III. Scherzo)

    Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • CPO.
  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    Moral Vacuums

    Choir: Theatre of Voices. Ensemble: American Contemporary Music Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • DG.
  • Gabriel Latchin Trio

    Polka Dots and Moonbeams

    • ALYS JAZZ.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Prelude, Allemande and Courante from Suite in F major

    Performer: Carole Cerasi.
    • METRONOME.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Soirées muiscales, Op. 9 (II. Canzonetta)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • DECCA.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Soirées muiscales, Op. 9 (IV. Bolero)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • DECCA.
  • William Lawes

    Consort Sett a 6 in B flat major (I. Fantasia)

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • ERATO.
  • George Frideric Handel

    The Trumpet's Loud Clangour (Song to St. Cecilia's Day)

    Singer: Ed Lyon. Ensemble: Ludus Baroque. Conductor: Richard Neville-Towle.
    • DELPHIAN.

Broadcast

  • Sun 9 Oct 2022 09:00