Your perfect Sunday soundtrack
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you’re having a lie-in or making brunch.
Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh.
In today’s programme, Sarah’s choices include music inspired by literature with Eric Whitacre’s setting of a Rudyard Kipling poem, and Byron transformed for the stage by Robert Schumann. Plus, Tafelmusik rejoice in music by Handel.
There’s also music from Francesca Caccini - star of the 17th-century Medici court, and Dvorak’s famous New World Symphony is brought to life by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Plus, George Gershwin is crazy about the Girl…
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George Frideric Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: IV. La Réjouissance
Conductor: Jeanne Lamon. Orchestra: Tafelmusik.- Händel: Wassermusik, Feuerwerksmusik.
- Sony Classical.
- 22.
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Jacques Offenbach
Barcarolle from Les Contes d'Hoffman
Performer: Nemanja Radulović. Performer: Camille Thomas. Music Arranger: Aleksander Sedlar. Ensemble: Double Sens.- DG.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
3 Duette auf Texte von Heinrich Heine (I. Wenn ich in deine Augen)
Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Barbara Bonney. Singer: Angelika Kirchschlager.- SONY.
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Sergey Akhunov
Sketch III
Performer: Ksenija Sidorova.- Crossroads.
- Alpha Classics.
- 2.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.8 in G major 'Le Soir' (I. Allegro Molto)
Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.- ALPHA.
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Gabriel Fauré
Cello Sonata No.2 in G minor, Op.117 (II. Andante)
Performer: Kathryn Stott. Performer: Christian Poltéra.- CHANDOS.
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Eric Whitacre
The Seal Lullaby
Lyricist: Rudyard Kipling. Ensemble: VOCES8.- Eventide.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 5.
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John Dowland
Prelude, P. 98
- Dowland, J.: Lute Music, Vol. 1 - Fancyes, Dreams and Spirits.
- Naxos.
- 1.
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Robert Schumann
Overture Manfred, Op. 115
Conductor: Christian Thielemann. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.- Schumann: Symphony No.2; "Manfred" Overture; Konzertstück for 4 Horns.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 1.
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Philip Glass
Concerto for Saxophone Quartet (Movement IV)
- ORANGE MOUNTAIN.
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Henry Purcell
Chacony in G Minor, Z. 730
Conductor: Giovanni Antonini. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico.- The Collected Recordings of Il Giardino Armonico.
- Warner Classics International.
- 211.
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Nathaniel Dett
In the Bottoms, 1913: Morning - Barcarolle
Composer: R. Nathaniel Dett. Performer: Clipper Erickson.- An American Journey.
- DTR.
- 19.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute Quartet No. 3 in C major, K. 285b: I. Allegro
Performer: Jasmine Choi.- Mozart: Five Quartets with Flute.
- Sony Classical.
- 9.
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Gioachino Rossini
Overture: The Barber of Seville
Lyricist: Cesare Sterbini. Lyricist: Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Lyricist: Giuseppe Petrosellini. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.- ドイツ・グラモフォン〶Äベスト・オブ・ベスト.
- Universal Music LLC.
- 2.
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Anton Bruckner
Virga jesse floruit, WAB 52
Conductor: Nigel Short. Ensemble: Tenebrae.- Brahms & Bruckner: Motets.
- Signum Records.
- 2.
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Anton Bruckner
Fantasie in G major WAB 118
Performer: Fumiko Shiraga.- BIS.
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Ronald Binge
The Watermill
Conductor: Iain Sutherland. Orchestra: Iain Sutherland Concert Orchestra.- British Classical Music Masterpieces.
- Menuetto Classics.
- 24.
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Pauline Viardot
Violin Sonatina in A Minor (III. Allegro finale)
- Pauline Viardot: Violin Sonatina - Paul Viardot: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3.
- Naxos.
- 3.
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John Tavener
Song for Athene
Choir: ORA Singers. Conductor: Suzi Digby. -
Claudin de Sermisy
Las, je my plains
- Les Plaisirs du Palais.
- harmonia mundi.
- 13.
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Domenico Cimarosa
Sonata No. 55 in A Minor
Performer: VÃkingur Ólafsson. Music Arranger: VÃkingur Ólafsson.- Mozart & Contemporaries.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 7.
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George Gershwin
Girl Crazy: Overture
Music Arranger: Don Rose. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.- Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Second Rhapsody, An American in Paris & 4 Overtures.
- Sony Music Media.
- 5.
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Francesca Caccini
Romanesca
Ensemble: Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini.- BRILLIANT.
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AntonÃn Dvořák
Symphony no.9 in E minor Op.95 'From the New World' (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Ludovic Morlot.- Dvořák: Complet Symphonies - Legends - Slavonic Dances & Czech Suite.
- Warner Classics.
- 52.
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Kerensa Briggs
Media vita
Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.- Media Vita.
- Signum Records.
- 1.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Lute Suite in E Minor, BWV 996 (II. Allemande)
Performer: John Williams. Music Arranger: John Williams.- John Williams plays Bach.
- Sony Classical.
- 13.
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Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
String Quartet no. 4 in C major: iii. Tema con variazione
Ensemble: Gewandhaus Quartet.- ETERNA.
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François Couperin
Les Baricades Mistérieuses
Music Arranger: Thomas Adès. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.- Insomnia.
- Warner Classics.
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Peggy Glanville-Hicks
Etruscan Concerto (I. Promenade)
Performer: Keith Jarrett. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies. Orchestra: Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra.- Harrison: Seven Pastorales; Glanville-Hicks: Etruscan Concerto; Riley: June Budd.
- Musical Heritage Society.
- 1.
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Sammy Fain
12 Songs for Guitar (Arr. T. Takemitsu for Guitar): No. 7, Secret Love
Performer: Shin-Ichi Fukuda.- Japanese Guitar Music, Vol. 3.
- Naxos.
- 2.
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Frédéric Chopin
Ballade no.3 in A flat major Op.47
Performer: Krystian Zimerman.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutshe Grammophon.
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VÃtezslav Novák
Slovak Suite, Op. 32: I. In the Church
Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Jiřà Bělohlávek.- SUPRAPHON.
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