Sarah Walker with an invigorating musical mix
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re preparing lunch or on your way to see friends.
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning.
Today, Imogen Holst weaves together vocal melodies to create a peaceful Agnus Dei, while Rachmaninov’s virtuosic Piano Concerto No 2 is a celebration of the instrument at its most energetic.
Sarah also plays a traditional Scottish folk song that builds towards an infectious jig while telling the story of a rather complex marriage, and Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s Nonet No 2 brilliantly shimmers in a recording by the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
Plus, a spider-eating symphonist…
A Tandem Production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3
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Music Played
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Francis Poulenc
Flute Sonata, FP. 164 (III. Presto giocoso)
Composer: Lennox Berkeley. Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Orchestra: Hague Residentie Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- BIS.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal in das Reich Gottes eingehen, BWV 146 (Sinfonia)
Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- SDG.
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Francesco Spinacino
La Bernadina de Josquin
Performer: Shirley Rumsey. Performer: Christopher Wilson.- NAXOS.
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Frank Bridge
Berceuse
Performer: Eniko Magyar. Performer: Tadashi Imai.- NAXOS.
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Anton Fils
Symphony in D major, Op. 2, No. 5
Orchestra: L’Orfeo Barockorchester. Conductor: Michi Gaigg.- CPO.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Nonet, Op. 2, 'Gradus ad Parnassum' (I. Allegro moderato)
Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.- CHANDOS.
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Imogen Holst
Mass in A minor (V. Agnus Dei)
Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Songs of Travel: The Infinite Shining Heavens
Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.- NAXOS.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Lieutenant Kijé, Symphonic Suite Op. 60
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Trad.
Två nyanser av Bruun (Two shades of brown)
Performer: Josefina Paulson. Performer: David Eriksson.- GAMMALTHEA.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 (III. Allegro Scherzando)
Performer: Zoltán Kocsis. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Edo de Waart.- PHILIPS.
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John Cage
Sonata & Interludes for Prepared Piano (Sonata V)
Performer: Joanna MacGregor.- SOUND CIRCUS.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Improvisation sur le 1er mouv J S Bach
Performer: Stéphane Grappelli. Performer: Eddie South. Performer: Django Reinhardt.- EMI.
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Gaetano Donizetti
D'un cor che muore reca il perdono; Giunge il Conte; Ah! Se un giorno (Maria Stuarda, Act 3)
Singer: Edita Gruberová. Singer: Francisco Araiza. Singer: Simone Alaimo. Singer: Francesco Ellero d’Artegna. Singer: Iris Vermillion. Choir: Bavarian Radio Chorus. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Giuseppe Patanè.- PHILIPS.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Tafelmusik Part II: Concerto for 3 violins and continuo in F major
Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz. Director: Petra Müllejans.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Gordon Langford
Rhapsody on Sea Shanties
Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Roy Newsome.- CHANDOS.
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Anonymous
Spanish Danza Asturiana
Performer: Patricia Spero. Performer: Malcolm Ball. Performer: Kate Cuzner. Music Arranger: Patricia Spero.- NEW WORLD MUSIC.
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Anonymous
Trop de Kyrie (Kyrie - Magne Deus)
Singer: Brigitte Lesne. Ensemble: Discantus.- NAIVE.
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Henry Purcell
Amphitryon, Z. 572 (Minuet; Hornpipe; Boree)
Orchestra: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien. Director: François Lazarevitch.- ALPHA.
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Jimmy Van Heusen
Darn that Dream
Performer: Romero Lubambo. Lyricist: Eddie DeLange. Singer: Dianne Reeves.- BLUE NOTE.
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Ethel Smyth
Piano Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor (II. Andante)
Performer: Liana Șerbescu.- CPO.
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Giacomo Puccini
Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums)
Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.- In The South.
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Alexandre Tansman
Cavatina Suite (III. Scherzino)
Performer: Andrés Segovia.- URANIA.
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Alexandre Tansman
Cavatina Suite (V. Danza pomposa)
Performer: Andrés Segovia.- URANIA.
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Manuel de Falla
The Three-Cornered Hat (Suite No. 1)
Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.- PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA.
Broadcast
- Sun 12 Feb 2023 09:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3