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Your perfect Sunday soundtrack

Join Sarah Walker for three hours of classical favourites designed to help you reflect, recharge, and relax, whether you鈥檙e deep into daily tasks or enjoying a well-earned break.

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

Today Sarah鈥檚 choices include comforting music from Amy Beach, Herbert Howells, Rachmaninov and Gustval Holst as well as barnstorming classics including Henry Litolf鈥檚 Concerto Symphonique, the last movement of Beethoven鈥檚 Violin Concerto and the overture to Mozart鈥檚 The Magic Flute.

There鈥檚 also a trip to Broadway thanks to music by Leonard Bernstein and romantic music from a prolific yet almost completely unknown French composer, Hedwige Chr茅tien.

Plus, Sarah continues to mark 91热爆 Radio 3鈥檚 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century 鈥搘ith another of the brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far.

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Music Played

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in E major, K 380

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Motherland.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13.

  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Suite from The Magic Opal (Overture)

    Conductor: Juanjo Mena. Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic.
    • Alb茅niz: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 102.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Eternal Source of Light Divine (Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne)

    Lyricist: Ambrose Philips. Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Conductor: Harry Christophers. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • Decca (UMO).

  • Wanda Landowska

    Autumn Night (4 Pieces, Op 2: No 2)

    Performer: David Kadouch.
    • Amours interdites.
    • Mirare.
    • 10.

  • Thomas Tallis

    In ieiunio et fletu

    Choir: The Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.
    • Lux aeterna: A Sequence for the Souls of the Departed.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Fernando Sor

    Exercise in B minor, Op 35 No 22

    Performer: Shin-Ichi Fukuda.
    • Denon.

  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    H谩ry J谩nos Suite (5th mvt, 'Intermezzo')

    Performer: Laurence Kaptain. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Stephen Dodgson

    Suite for Wind Quintet (3rd mvt, Menuets I & II)

    Ensemble: Magnard Ensemble.
    • Toccata Classics.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in A, BWV 536 (1st mvt, 'Prelude')

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Gyda Valtysdottir

    Cute Kittens Lick Cream

    Performer: Gyda Valtysdottir.
    • DiaMond.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Sappho von Mitilene Suite Op 68 (Overture)

    Ensemble: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Hummel - Ballet Music.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Don Macdonald

    When the Earth Stands Still

    Choir: Lyyra.
    • When the Earth Stands Still.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 1.

  • Henry Litolff

    Concerto Symphonique No 4 in D minor, Op 102 (2nd mvt, Scherzo)

    Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony.
    • Masterpieces in Miniature.
    • SFS Media.
    • 1.

  • Amy Beach

    Pastorale Op 151

    Ensemble: Bl谩sarakvintett Reykjav铆kur.
    • Chandos.

  • Alfonso Ferrabosco

    The Spanish Pavan

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • English Lute Duets.
    • BIS.
    • 3.

  • Herbert Howells

    Melody

    Performer: Matthew Schellhorn.
    • Naxos.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op 61 (3rd mvt, Rondo)

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Conductor: David Zinman. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Sir Stephen Hough

    Nocturne (September 10, 2001)

    Performer: Elisabeth Brauss.

  • Johannes Eccard

    Maria wallt zum Heiligtum (When to the temple Mary went)

    Conductor: Paul Hillier. Ensemble: Ars Nova Copenhagen.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Die Zauberfl枚te, K 620 (Overture)

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations: Quodlibet and Aria da Capo al Fine

    Conductor: Robin O鈥橬eill. Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • BIS.

  • Lauren MacColl

    Crow Road Croft

    Performer: Calum Stewart. Performer: Lauren MacColl.
    • Wooden Flute & Fiddle.
    • Lauren MacColl.

  • Jules Massenet

    M茅ditation (arr for cello & piano)

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Mazurka, Op 19, 'Village Scene by the Inn'

    Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky. Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic.
    • Chandos.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Lonely Town

    Music Arranger: Alan Broadbent. Singer: Shirley Horn. Performer: Charlie Haden. Composer: Adolph Green. Performer: Ernie Watts. Performer: Alan Broadbent. Performer: Lawrence Marable. Lyricist: Leonard Bernstein. Lyricist: Betty Comden. Lyricist: Adolph Green.
    • The Art Of The Song.
    • Universal Music Division Decca Records France.
    • 1.

  • Pietro Locatelli

    Sonata No 3 in G minor, Op 2a (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lisa Beznosiuk. Performer: Nigel North.
    • Concord of Sweet Sounds.
    • Amon Ra.
    • 3.

  • Marcel Tournier

    Sonatine pour Harpe, Op 30 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Chantal Mathieu.
    • Claves Records.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op 18 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Simon Trpceski. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • AVIE Records.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance No 2

    Ensemble: Far Flung Trio.
    • Far Flung Trio.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Les Berceaux (3 Songs Op 23: No 1)

    Performer: Anastasia Kobekina. Performer: Jean-S茅lim Abdelmoula.

  • Hedwige Chr茅tien

    The Boat (Short Poems on the Water's Edge: No 2)

    Lyricist: Ludovic Fortolis. Singer: Cyrille Dubois. Performer: Tristan Ra毛s.
    • Bru Zane.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 7

    Orchestrator: Iv谩n Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • DECCA.

  • Gustav Holst

    Invocation, Op 19 No 2

    Performer: Guy Johnson. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic.
    • Chandos.

Broadcast

  • Sun 2 Feb 2025 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 3