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Your perfect Sunday soundtrack

Join Sarah Walker for three hours of classical favorites designed to help you reflect, recharge, and relax, whether you鈥檙e setting off on a walk or enjoying a lie-in.

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

Sarah鈥檚 selections include incidental music from Purcell and Vaughan WIlliams, while accordion player Ksenija Sidorova brings us a Czech Fairy Tale.
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There's music from stunning Concertos by Brahms, Chopin and Tailleferre, and we continue to celebrate 91热爆 Radio 3鈥檚 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century 鈥 with another brand-new commission celebrating one of the biggest events of the 21st century so far.

Plus Ravel announces the dawn...

A Tandem Production for 91热爆 Radio 3

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Sunday 09:00

Music Played

  • Herbert Murrill

    O Mistress Mine (Two Songs from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: No 1)

    Ensemble: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Music of the Spheres: Part Songs of the British Isles.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet no.2 in D major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Borodin Quartet.
    • Musical Concepts.
  • Mel Bonis

    At Dusk, Op 111

    Performer: Fran莽ois Dumont.
    • Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 4.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps, an Aristophanic Suite (Overture)

    Conductor: Vernon Handley. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Marianna Martines

    Sonata in A major, IMM 14 (1st mvt)

    Composer: Marianna Martines. Performer: Sarah Hagen. Performer: Sarah Hagen.
    • Sarah Hagen.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Cantate Domino

    Conductor: Stephen Cleobury. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge.
    • The Music of King's: Choral Favourites from Cambridge.
    • King鈥檚 College, Cambridge.
    • 1.
  • Henry Purcell

    Abdelazer Suite, Z 570 (2nd mvt, Rondeau)

    Conductor: Andrew Parrott. Ensemble: Taverner Players. Ensemble: Taverner Players.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor, Op 15 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg.
    • Hyperion.
  • Alan Langford

    Two Worlds Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Resonance.
  • Samuel Barber

    A Slumber Song of the Madonna

    Performer: Dylan Perez. Singer: Soraya Mafi.
    • Barber: The Complete Songs.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 48.
  • Akira Nakada

    12 Songs for Guitar: No. 7: A Song of Early Spring

    Music Arranger: Toru Takemitsu. Performer: Shin-Ichi Fukuda.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso (orchestral version)

    Performer: Sherman Walt. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht (Cantata BWV 105: Aria)

    Performer: Fred Thomas. Music Arranger: Fred Thomas. Music Arranger: Fred Thomas.
    • ECM New Series.
  • Philip Glass

    Piano Etude No 16

    Performer: Aaron Diehl.
    • The Vagabond.
    • Mack Avenue Records.
    • 11.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 101 in D major, Hob I:101, 'The Clock' (4th mvt, Finale)

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.
  • John Sheppard

    Libera nos

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Renaissance: Music for inner peace.
    • UNIVERSAL.
    • 16.
  • Erland Cooper

    Birds of Paradise

    Performer: Freya Goldmark. Orchestra: 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jack Sheen.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G minor, No 5 Op 23 (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin 2018)

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto in D minor, RV 481 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sergio Azzolini. Orchestra: Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca.
    • Believe International.
  • James MacMillan

    The Gallant Weaver

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 3 in D major, D 200 (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Mariss Jansons. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • BR-Klassik.
  • Jos茅 de Nebra

    Pues al estrago (Mars & Venus, duet)

    Lyricist: Jos茅 de Ca帽izares. Singer: Jone Mart铆nez. Singer: Paola Valentina Molinari. Conductor: Alberto Migu茅lez Rouco. Ensemble: Los Elementos.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor, Op 11 (2nd mvt, Romance)

    Performer: Seong-Jin Cho. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Horseplay for ensemble (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Philip Headlam. Ensemble: The Continuum Ensemble.
    • AVIE Records.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (Pictures at an Exhibition: No 5)

    Music Arranger: Maurice Ravel. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Song Of India (Sadko)

    Lyricist: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Music Arranger: Paul Bateman. Singer: Aida Garifullina. Conductor: Cornelius Meister. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
  • V谩clav Trojan

    Fairy Tales, a Concerto for Accordion (1st mvt)

    Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Conductor: Clark Rundell. Orchestra: 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales.
    • CHAMPS HILL.
  • Frederick Delius

    Scherzo

    Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North.
    • Naxos.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 8 in C minor, Op 13, 'Path茅tique' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Augusta Holm猫s

    Ludus pro patria: II. La Nuit et l'Amour

    Conductor: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon.
    • Aux 茅toiles - French Symphonic Poems.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 7.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino for harp and orchestra (1st mvt)

    Performer: Marie鈥怭ierre Langlamet. Conductor: Juanjo Mena. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings.

Broadcast

  • Sunday 09:00