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Sarah Walker with a restorative musical mix

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re reading in the park or pottering around the house.

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

Today, Sarah finds emotional honesty in Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s Rosary Sonata in A major, 'The Visitation', and enjoys a song about how gardening can heal a broken heart, sung by Olivia Chaney.

There’s also a viola sonata by Rebecca Clarke that demands virtuosic flexibility from the players, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Petite Suite de Concert ebbs and flows - at one moment lush and melancholy, and the next clear and bright.

Plus, a well known melody arranged for two lutes that will put a spring in your step…

A Tandem Production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Sun 18 Jun 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    Sonatina in D, D. 384

    Performer: Richard Stoltzman. Performer: Richard Goode.
    • RCA.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Trumpet Concerto in D major, TWV 51:D7

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Ensemble: Balsom Ensemble.
    • WARNER.
  • Trad.

    Greensleeves

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Performer: Paul O’Dette.
    • BIS.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cantique de Jean Racine, Op.11

    Choir: Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • ERATO.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G minor, BWV578, 'Little'

    Performer: Canadian Brass.
    • OPENING DAY.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 7 in F major, K. 242 "Lodron"

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Performer: Radu Lupu. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • SONY.
  • Enrique Granados

    Andaluza (Playera) from Danzas Espanolas op. 37/5

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Performer: Carel Kraayenhof.
    • Enrique Granados: The Collection.
    • Sony.
    • 10.
  • Franz Berwald

    Bayarderen-Fest

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sixten Ehrling.
    • BLUEBELL.
  • Violeta Parra

    La Jardinera

    Performer: Olivia Chaney.
    • NONESUCH.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso, M. 43 (I. Assez vif)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.
  • Orlande de Lassus

    Timor et tremor

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • DECCA.
  • Luigi Cherubini

    Overture in G major

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Rebecca Clarke

    Viola Sonata (II. Vivace)

    Performer: Richard O'Neill. Performer: Warren Jones.
    • DECCA.
  • Dorothy Ashby

    Jollity

    Performer: Dorothy Ashby. Performer: Frank Wess. Performer: Herman Wright. Performer: Art Taylor.
    • PRESTIGE.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    The Sea Hawk (Main Title; Reunion; Finale)

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Hazlewood.
    • Big Eye Music.
  • Johann Joachim Quantz

    Vivace from Trio Sonata in E minor

    Performer: Ashley Solomon. Ensemble: Florilegium.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Blumine

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SFS MEDIA.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, C. 91, 'Mary's Visit to Elizabeth' (the Joyful Mysteries)

    Performer: John Holloway. Performer: Davitt Moroney. Ensemble: Tragicomedia.
    • ERATO.
  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    I'll always leave the door a little open

    Composer: Johnny Mandel. Composer: Frank Underwood. Performer: Jeremy Brown. Performer: Matt Skelton. Performer: Rob Barron. Music Arranger: Scott Dunn. Singer: Claire Martin.
    • STUNT.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite Suite de concert (III. Un sonnet d'amour)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Parnther.
    • DECCA.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Sonata No. 1 in D major, W1 61/6,1 (III. Presto di molto)

    Performer: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • DG.
  • Pau Casals

    El cant dels ocells

    Performer: Ofra Harnoy. Ensemble: Orford String Quartet.
    • FANFARE.
  • Aaron Copland

    Clarinet Concerto (II. Rather Fast - Coda)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Lucy Reeves. Performer: Benjamin Martin. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Richard Tognetti.
    • BIS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata for Piano and Violin No 4 in A Minor, Op 23 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Antje Weithaas. Performer: Dénes Várjon.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Night Ride and Sunrise

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • BIS.

Broadcast

  • Sun 18 Jun 2023 09:00