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An inviting classical Sunday mix

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re in the mood to wind down or to get out into the summer sunshine.

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

In today’s programme, Ian Bostridge joins the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for a mellifluous Handel aria, there’s an agile clarinet quartet from Franz Anton Hoffmeister, and Angela Hewitt combines poise and playfulness in a Bach keyboard partita.

Sarah also features a classic recording of the visionary music of Hildegard of Bingen, and guitarist Manuel Barrueco harnesses the heat of Southern Spain.

Plus, Dvorak draws inspiration from Czech folklore


A Tandem Production for ±«Óătv Radio 3

3 hours

Last on

Sun 7 Jul 2024 09:00

Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio No. 43 in C major, Hob WV:27 (I. Allegro)

    Ensemble: Trio Wanderer.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Humming Chorus (Madame Butterfly, Act 2)

    Orchestra: Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Opera Queensland Chorus. Conductor: Johannes Fritzsch.
    • ABC CLASSICS.
  • Enrique Granados

    Andaluza (Spanish Dances Op. 37, No. 5)

    Performer: Manuel Barrueco.
    • EMI.
  • Friedrich Kuhlau

    Piano Sonata in A major, Op. 59 No. 1 (II. Rondo. Allegro scherzando)

    Performer: JenƑ Jandó.
    • NAXOS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 (III. Poco allegretto)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • NAXOS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    'Where'er you walk' (Semele, HWV 58, Act 2)

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Harry Bicket.
    • WARNER.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No. 4 in D major, BWV 828 (I. Ouverture)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • HYPERION.
  • M. Camargo Guarnieri

    Dansa brasiliera

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • SONY.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Pieces Book 3 Op. 43, Nr. 1 'Butterfly'

    Performer: Kjell BĂŠkkelund.
    • TALENT.
  • LĂ©o Delibes

    Waltz (Coppelia, Act 1)

    Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • WARNER.
  • Nadia Boulanger

    Cantique

    Performer: Joseph Beadle. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • SIGNUM.
  • John Jenkins

    Fantasia-Suite in A Minor, VdGS group IV, No. 1 (III. Courante)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Die Zauberflöte, K.620 - Sct 2 "Ach ich fuhl's"

    Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • DECCA.
  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arlésienne Suite No 2

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • NAIVE.
  • Franz Anton Hoffmeister

    Clarinet Quartet in A Major (III. Allegro)

    Performer: Dieter Klöcker. Ensemble: Vlachovo kvarteto Praha.
    • CPO.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • SONY.
  • Amy Beach

    By the Still Waters

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • DECCA.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no 3 in A minor, Op.56 - IV. Allegro Vivacissimo

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • Ólafur Arnalds

    saman

    Ensemble: The Westerlies.
    • UNIVERSAL.
  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie Espagnole in D minor, Op. 21 (V. Rondo)

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • DG.
  • Sarah Quartel

    Lux Aeterna (Sanctum)

    Choir: Oxford Choir. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
    • OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.
  • Anon.

    Folias Criollas

    Performer: HespĂšrion XXI. Performer: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • AntonĂ­n Dvoƙák

    Water Goblin (I. Allegro vivo)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • WARNER.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Columba aspexit

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Ensemble: Gothic Voices. Director: Christopher Page.
    • HYPERION.
  • Stephan Koncz

    GoldBergHain (Quodlibet on "Kraut und RĂŒben haben mich vertrieben")

    Performer: Niklas Liepe. Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jamie Phillips.
    • SONY.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg-Suite, Op. 40 (IV. Air)

    Performer: Ole Edvard Antonsen. Performer: Wolfgang Plagge.
    • 2L.
  • Masao Nakajima Quartet

    Beloved Diane

    • BBE.
  • Josef Myslivecek

    Symphony in D major, F. 29

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    ChĂŽros No. 1

    Performer: Pedro Aguiar.
    • Pereira, Villa-Lobos, Reis & Others: Works for Guitar.
    • Naxos.
    • 901.
  • John Taverner

    Song for Athene

    Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Robinson.
    • NAXOS.

Broadcast

  • Sun 7 Jul 2024 09:00