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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 working in the garden, or having a lie in.

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

Today, there鈥檚 music full of optimism, from Bach鈥檚 joyous Cantata 鈥楳y soul magnifies the Lord鈥� to light music by Ronald Binge, renamed 鈥楨lizabethan Serenade鈥� in 1952 when Elizabeth II became Queen, and there鈥檚 also Mendelssohn鈥檚 Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.

This week鈥檚 choral reflection is Poulenc鈥檚 prayer to the Virgin Mary - Salve Regina - both flowing and declamatory with all the familiar twists and turns of Poulenc鈥檚 angular and beautiful melodies鈥�

Plus, we鈥檙e treated to the whole of one of Mozart鈥檚 most beloved piano concertos鈥�

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Sun 10 Aug 2025 09:00
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Music Played

  • Jean Sibelius

    Andante festivo

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Sibelius: Violin Concerto.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.

  • Pauline Viardot

    Hai Luli!, VWV 1106 (Arr. for Violin, Harp and String Quintet)

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Music Arranger: Jan-Peter Kl枚pfel. Ensemble: Esther Abrami.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No 33 in C minor, Hob XVI:20 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Haydn: 11 Piano Sonatas.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 1 in G minor (version for orchestra)

    Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Valentin Silvestrov

    Birthday Dedications, Op 20 (No 2, '31 January 1797, To the Birthday of FP Sch')

    Performer: Alexei Lubimov.
    • Flowering Over Lethe.
    • Fuga Libera.
    • 3.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Suite in A major, Op 98b, B 190, 'American'

    Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Salve regina, FP 110

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Canciones populares espanolas, G 40, arr for cello and guitar (4th mvt, 'Jota')

    Performer: Xuefei Yang. Performer: Johannes Moser. Music Arranger: Jaume Torrent.
    • Platoon Ltd.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Op.27

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Flight of the Bumble-Bee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Act 3)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Piers Lane. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
    • Parlophone UK.

  • Franz Danzi

    Wind Quintet in F major, No 3 Op 56 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bl盲serquintett Berlin.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV 10, 'Meine Seel erhebt den Herren'

    Singer: James Gilchrist. Singer: Stephen Varcoe. Singer: Lisa Larsson. Singer: Daniel Taylor. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists.
    • SDG.

  • Ronald Binge

    Elizabethan Serenade

    Conductor: Vernon Handley. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra.
    • The Best Of British Light Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.

  • John Williams

    Han Solo and the Princess (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Walt Disney Records.
    • 7.

  • Kate Rusby

    Underneath The Stars

    Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Eventide (10th Anniversary Edition).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
    • 7.

  • Claude Debussy

    Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune, CD 87a

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 5 in D major, K 175

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.

  • C茅sar Franck

    Panis Angelicus (Mass, Op 12, FWV 61)

    Performer: Tom Winpenny. Choir: Boys of King's College Choir, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Heavenly Voices.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Anoushka Shankar

    Maya

    Performer: Manu Delago. Music Arranger: Jules Buckley. Orchestra: Metropole Orkest. Conductor: Jules Buckley. Featured Artist: Manu Delago.
    • LEITER.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Lilacs, No 5 Op 21 No 5 (transc for piano)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.

  • Arthur Bliss

    A Colour Symphony (2nd mvt, 'Red')

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd鈥怞ones.
    • Naxos.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A minor Op.7 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Holly Mathieson.
    • Romance.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in G minor, No 2 Op 8, RV 315, 'L'estate' [Summer] (The Four Seasons)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Orchestra: Brecon Baroque.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.

Broadcast

  • Sun 10 Aug 2025 09:00
    麻豆社 Radio 3