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Your perfect Sunday soundtrack

Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you’re making a cup of tea or heading out for a stroll.

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

Today, Sarah’s selections include one of Handel’s best-loved arias, Elgar in a whimsical mood, and a highlight from Joby Talbot’s ballet music for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Sarah also chooses a popular piano concerto with hints of jazz, and the Halle Orchestra create a vivid impression of the countryside emerging from the morning mist.

Plus, a hypnotic trumpet call from John Adams


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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    La Capricieuse, Op. 17

    Music Arranger: Marc-Olivier Dupin.
    • 14.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 12.

  • Frederick Delius

    Brigg Fair (An English Rhapsody)

    Conductor: Vernon Handley. Orchestra: Hallé.
    • Icon: Vernon Handley.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Magnifiat in D Major, BWV 243 - Magnificat anima mea

    Director: Philippe Herreweghe. Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Ensemble: La Chapelle Royale.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • FrĂ©dĂ©ric Chopin

    Ballade No 4 in F minor

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.

  • Amy Beach

    Peace I Leave with You

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Ensemble: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Ensemble: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 10.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Romance in E-Flat Major, Op. 11

    Conductor: Howard Griffiths. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • A Finzi Anthology.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • Carlos Simon

    Tales - A Folklore Symphony (Motherboxx Connection)

    Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Carlos Simon: Tales – A Folklore Symphony: I. Motherboxx Connection.
    • National Symphony Orchestra.
    • 101.

  • Elfrida AndrĂ©e

    String Quartet in D minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Stockholm Quartet.
    • Caprice.

  • Michael Tippett

    Five Spirituals from "A Child Of our Time" (V. Deep River)

    Conductor: Christopher Bell. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Ensemble: National Youth Choir of Scotland.
    • Cantos Sagrados.
    • Signum Records.
    • 15.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Pas trop vite

    Performer: Cristina Ariagno.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.

  • Tielman Susato

    12 Dances from the Danserye (III. Ronde and Salterelie)

    Conductor: David Munrow. Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London.
    • Renaissance Dances.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Sophia Dussek

    Rondo-Allegro

    Performer: Judy Loman.
    • Harp Showpieces.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet In E Flat, Op. 20, MWV R20 (III. Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.
    • Mendelssohn: Octet; String Quintet No. 2.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Pelleas und Melisande Op. 5: III. Lebhaft (Live)

    Conductor: Pierre Boulez. Orchestra: Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
    • Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.

  • George Gershwin

    Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra (II. Adagio)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Concerto in F; An American in Paris: Classic Library.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 4.

  • Thomas Crecquillon

    Congratulamini mihi

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • John Adams

    Two Fanfares for Orchesra: Tromba Lontana

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester ZĂŒrich. Conductor: Paavo JĂ€rvi.
    • John Adams.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.

  • Eunike Tanzil

    Serenade

    Performer: Ray Chen. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru.
    • Tanzil: Serenade.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Hungarian Melody in B minor D.817

    Performer: Sir AndrĂĄs Schiff.
    • Schubert/Andras Schiff.
    • ECM.
    • 1.

  • Thomas Simpson

    Canzon IV

    Ensemble: The Prague Brass Soloists.
    • Purcell,Simpson,Adson,Holborne, Brade, Clarke:Old English Brass Music.
    • SUPRAPHON a.s..
    • 08.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Serse, HWV 40 / Act 1: "Ombra mai fu"

    Lyricist: Silvio Stampiglia. Lyricist: NicolĂČ Minato. Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Sospiri.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Robert Schumann

    DavidsbĂŒndlertĂ€nze, Op. 6, Heft II: No.17 (Wie aus der Ferne)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Schumann: DavidsbĂŒndlertĂ€nze, Op. 6 & Fantasie, Op. 17.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 17.

  • Joby Talbot

    Suite from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Prologue

    Conductor: Christopher Austin. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • Melody Eötvös

    Piano Sonata No. 2 "A Story from the Sand Dunes" (II. The Party)

    Performer: Alex Raineri.
    • Piano Sonata No. 2 "A Story from the Sand Dunes": II. The Party.
    • ABC Classic.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 (Arr. J. Went): Overture

    Music Arranger: Johann Nepomuk Went. Ensemble: BlÀser der Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K 492 & La clemenza di Tito, K. 492.
    • Orfeo.
    • 1.

  • Pablo Luna

    El niño judio: De España vengo [The Jewish boy: I come from Spain]

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Angel Blue.
    • OPUS ARTE.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    3 Motets (Op.38), no.3; Beati quorum via

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • A New Heaven: The Sixteen.
    • DECCA.
    • 4.

  • Ernest Chausson

    Viviane, Op. 5

    Conductor: Michel Plasson. Orchestra: Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse.
    • Au service de la musique française.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 111.

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