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Sarah Walker with a stirring musical mix

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you鈥檙e hunkering down with a hot drink or enjoying the bright January skies.

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

Today, there鈥檚 a traditional Irish song performed by the duo Ye Vagabonds in perfect lilting harmony, and an arrangement of Purcell鈥檚 Fantasia Upon One Note for brass that sparkles with energy.

Sarah also finds fascinating ambiguity in the voice of Joni Mitchell singing Gershwin鈥檚 song The Man I Love, and plays a 15th-century piece for choir that sounds like it could have been written just yesterday.

Plus, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra summons up a 鈥楬appy Forest鈥...

A Tandem Production for 麻豆社 Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin (IV. Rigaudon)

    Music Arranger: Mason Jones. Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata No. 3 in D minor, BWV 527 (III. Vivace)

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • DG.
  • Trad.

    Julottan

    Performer: Sandra Marteleur. Performer: Gunnar Idenstam. Music Arranger: Gunnar Idenstam.
    • BIS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 103, 'Drumroll' (I. Adagio - Allegro con spirito)

    Orchestra: Heidelberger Sinfoniker. Conductor: Thomas Fey.
    • HANNSLER.
  • Johannes Ockeghem

    Deo Gratias

    Choir: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • SONY.
  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    8 Concert Studies, Op.40 (Prelude)

    Performer: Marc鈥怉ndr茅 Hamelin.
    • Kapustin: Piano music: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Pieter Hellendaal

    Six Grand Concertos, Op. 3, No. 4 in E flat major

    Performer: Lidewij van der Voort. Ensemble: La Sfera Armoniosa. Director: Mike Fentross.
    • CHALLENGE CLASSICS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D. 417 (IV. Allegro)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Br眉ggen.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Ang茅lica Negr贸n

    A Black Map (The Blue Hour, No. 3)

    Singer: Shara Nova. Ensemble: A Far Cry.
    • WARNER MUSIC UK.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Onyx.
  • Christoph Graupner

    Sonata for flute, violin and basso continuo in B minor

    Performer: Sabrina Frey. Ensemble: ARS Musica Zurich.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.
  • Ye Vagabonds

    Bacach Sh铆ol Anda铆

    • RIVER LEA.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Souvenance (3 Romances sans paroles, No.1)

    Performer: Eric Parkin.
    • CHANDOS.
  • L茅o Delibes

    Les Filles de Cadix, 'Chanson Espagnole'

    Singer: Natalie Dessay. Orchestra: Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Sch酶nwandt.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Henry Purcell

    One Note Fantasy..

    Composer: Steve Martland. Ensemble: Onyx Brass.
    • MERIDIAN.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Ballade in A minor, Op. 33

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Grant Llewellyn.
    • ARGO.
  • Gabriel Piern茅

    Impromptu-Caprice, Op. 9

    Performer: Ellen Sejersted B酶dtker. Performer: Bjorg Vaernes.
    • NAXOS.
  • Orlande de Lassus

    In te Domine speravi (Prima pars)

    Ensemble: English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble.
    • RESONUS CLASSICS.
  • Hannah Peel

    Reverie

    Composer: Erland Cooper. Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Performer: Hannah Peel. Music Arranger: Max Knoth.
    • DG.
  • Richard Wagner

    Karfreitagszauber (Parsifal, Act 3)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Daniele Gatti.
    • RCO LIVE.
  • Charles Gounod

    Prelude & Fugue in G major (Six Preludes & Fugues, CG 587)

    Performer: Roberto Prosseda.
    • DECCA.
  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Este, K. 18

    Singer: Jakob Soelberg. Choir: Danish National Vocal Ensemble. Conductor: Marcus Creed.
    • OUR.
  • George Gershwin

    The Man I Love

    Performer: Herbie Hancock. Performer: Ira Coleman. Performer: Terri Lyne Carrington. Singer: Joni Mitchell.
    • VERVE.
  • Gerald Finzi

    The King's Poem (Love's Labour's Lost, Op. 28a)

    Performer: Robert Plane. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • NAXOS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Solomon (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Reuss.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Carlo Domeniconi

    Koyunbaba, Op.19 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • DG.
  • Michael Tippett

    Fantasia concertante on a theme of Corelli

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Performer: Vesna Stankovic Moffatt. Performer: Marieke Blankestijn. Performer: William Conway. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • Lachrymae: Music for Strings.
    • Warner Apex.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Sun 8 Jan 2023 09:00