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Linton Stephens, sitting in for Sarah Walker, with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh.

Today Linton’s playlist includes music for a delightful range of instruments - there’s Paganini on marimba, a harmonica joining forces with a string quartet, and Vivaldi’s famous mandolin concerto.

There are also soaring melodies from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Mozart to welcome the first days of Spring, intricate and sparkling piano music by Germaine Tailleferre, and a new release from viola player Timothy Ridout.

Plus, two very different soprano voices soar over lush orchestration…

Including ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, it’s 2008 and composer Nkeiru Okoye honours the election of Barack Obama as president of the USA with a piece recorded by the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra.

A Tandem Production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3