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Your perfect Sunday soundtrack

Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you鈥檙e relaxing with family, or pottering about the house.

Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh.

Today, Sarah shares glorious melodies from Schubert, Bruch and Vaughan Williams, music from the first symphony known to be written by a British woman, and a Haydn string quartet that鈥檚 full of musical mastery and innovation.

There鈥檚 also a crazily virtuosic little 鈥楥anzon鈥� by Matthias Weckmann, and the theme music to a much loved TV detective show.

Plus, a piece named after a picturesque Icelandic bay鈥�

Also including 大象传媒 Radio 3鈥檚 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century 鈥� a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, it鈥檚 2004, and Jasdeep Singh Degun鈥檚 piece, Abbha, is a tribute to his teacher Ustad Vilayat Khan who passed away that year.

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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de Matin, No 2 Op 15

    Conductor: James Judd. Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
    • Naxos.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Gavottes for the Hours and the Zephyrs (Les Bor茅ades: Act IV)

    Conductor: Marc Minkowski. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre.
    • Archiv Produktion.

  • Jean Langlais

    Ave Maria

    Performer: Rupert Gough. Singer: Sarah Fox.
    • Priory Records Ltd.

  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Arabesque in Twilight (Pleiades Dances: No 5)

    Performer: Kyoko Tabe.
    • Denon.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 8 in F major, Op 93 (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Yondani Butt. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Nimbus.

  • Harry Burleigh

    Southland Sketches arr for wind quintet (3rd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Jelte Althuis. Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet.
    • An American Rhapsody.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 6.

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Symphony in C minor (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: London Mozart Players.
    • Chandos.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    The Old Castle (Pictures from an Exhibition)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concert Rondo in E flat major K 371

    Performer: Richard Watkins. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos and Concert Rondo.
    • I.M.P..
    • 12.

  • Robert Schumann

    String Quartet in A major No 3 Op 41 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Leonkoro Quartet.
    • MIRARE.

  • Max Bruch

    Concerto for Clarinet, Viola and Orchestra in E minor, Op 88 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Howard Griffiths. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.

  • William Byrd

    Cibavit Eos

    Conductor: Rupert Gough. Choir: The Choir of Royal Holloway.
    • Signum Records.

  • Matthias Weckmann

    Canzon in D minor

    Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar.
    • The Long 17th Century: A Cornucopia of Early Keyboard Music.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 4.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G major No 1 Op 76 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Act 1, No 7: Bei M盲nnern, welche Liebe f眉hlen)

    Lyricist: Emanuel Schikaneder. Singer: Ruth Ziesak. Singer: Michael Kraus. Conductor: Georg Solti. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    7 Variations on 'Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen', WoO 46

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • Hope Amid Tears - Beethoven: Cello Sonatas.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Jasdeep Singh Degun

    础产产丑腻

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.

  • John Field

    Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat major (2nd mvt, 'Air ecossais, 鈥橳was within a mile of Edinburo鈥� Town')

    Performer: M铆膵e谩l O'Rourke. Conductor: Matthias Bamert. Orchestra: London Mozart Players.
    • Chandos.

  • 闯贸苍蝉颈

    Flj贸tav铆k (arr for ensemble)

    Composer: Georg H贸lm. Composer: Kjartan Sveinsson. Composer: Orri P谩ll D媒rason. Lyricist: 闯贸苍蝉颈. Lyricist: Georg H贸lm. Lyricist: Kjartan Sveinsson. Lyricist: Orri P谩ll D媒rason. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Nightfall.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
    • 2.

  • Agatha Backer-Grondahl

    Etude No 3 in D minor (3 Etudes for Piano, Op 22)

    Performer: Geir Henning Braaten.
    • BIS.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Pan and Echo

    Orchestra: Kuopion kaupunginorkesteri. Conductor: Shuntaro Sato.
    • FINLANDIA.

  • Gregorio Allegri

    Miserere mei Deus

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Signum Records.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    L'Amant anonyme (Overture)

    Conductor: Craig Trompeter. Orchestra: Haymarket Opera Company.
    • Cedille.

  • Barrington Pheloung

    Inspector Morse Theme

    Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Barrington Pheloung.
    • Virgin Catalogue.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'

    Conductor: Sir Mark Elder. Orchestra: Hall茅.
    • Halle Concerts Society.

  • Bryce Dessner

    Song for Octave

    Performer: James McVinnie.
    • Dreamcatcher.
    • Pentatone.
    • 12.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Improvisation on Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo)

    Music Arranger: Duran & Turri. Performer: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Performer: Christina Pluhar.
    • Erato.

  • Stephan Moccio

    Fracture (Version for Harp)

    Performer: Alis Huws.
    • Long Nights and Starry Skies.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Charles Martin Loeffler

    Octet for two clarinets, harp, two violins, viola, cello & double bass (1st mvt)

    Performer: David Shifrin. Performer: Graeme Steele Johnson. Performer: Bridget Kibbey. Performer: Siwoo Kim. Performer: Stella Chen. Performer: Matthew Lipman. Performer: Samuel DeCaprio. Performer: Sam Suggs.
    • Forgotten Sounds.
    • Delos.
    • 102.

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