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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

3 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Sun 12 Feb 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Francis Poulenc

    Flute Sonata, FP. 164 (III. Presto giocoso)

    Composer: Lennox Berkeley. Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Orchestra: Hague Residentie Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • BIS.
  • 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.
  • Francesco Spinacino

    La Bernadina de Josquin

    Performer: Shirley Rumsey. Performer: Christopher Wilson.
    • NAXOS.
  • Frank Bridge

    Berceuse

    Performer: Eniko Magyar. Performer: Tadashi Imai.
    • NAXOS.
  • Anton Fils

    Symphony in D major, Op. 2, No. 5

    Orchestra: L’Orfeo Barockorchester. Conductor: Michi Gaigg.
    • CPO.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet, Op. 2, 'Gradus ad Parnassum' (I. Allegro moderato)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Imogen Holst

    Mass in A minor (V. Agnus Dei)

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Songs of Travel: The Infinite Shining Heavens

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • NAXOS.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Lieutenant Kijé, Symphonic Suite Op. 60

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Trad.

    Två nyanser av Bruun (Two shades of brown)

    Performer: Josefina Paulson. Performer: David Eriksson.
    • GAMMALTHEA.
  • 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.
  • John Cage

    Sonata & Interludes for Prepared Piano (Sonata V)

    Performer: Joanna MacGregor.
    • SOUND CIRCUS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Improvisation sur le 1er mouv J S Bach

    Performer: Stéphane Grappelli. Performer: Eddie South. Performer: Django Reinhardt.
    • EMI.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Gordon Langford

    Rhapsody on Sea Shanties

    Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Roy Newsome.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Anonymous

    Spanish Danza Asturiana

    Performer: Patricia Spero. Performer: Malcolm Ball. Performer: Kate Cuzner. Music Arranger: Patricia Spero.
    • NEW WORLD MUSIC.
  • Anonymous

    Trop de Kyrie (Kyrie - Magne Deus)

    Singer: Brigitte Lesne. Ensemble: Discantus.
    • NAIVE.
  • Henry Purcell

    Amphitryon, Z. 572 (Minuet; Hornpipe; Boree)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien. Director: François Lazarevitch.
    • ALPHA.
  • Jimmy Van Heusen

    Darn that Dream

    Performer: Romero Lubambo. Lyricist: Eddie DeLange. Singer: Dianne Reeves.
    • BLUE NOTE.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Piano Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor (II. Andante)

    Performer: Liana Șerbescu.
    • CPO.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums)

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • In The South.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Alexandre Tansman

    Cavatina Suite (III. Scherzino)

    Performer: Andrés Segovia.
    • URANIA.
  • Alexandre Tansman

    Cavatina Suite (V. Danza pomposa)

    Performer: Andrés Segovia.
    • URANIA.
  • 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