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Sarah Walker with an enchanting musical mix

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re making brunch or on your way to see friends and family.

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

Today, Sarah finds freshness in the familiar with Francis Poulenc’s Clarinet Sonata, and the folk trio Leveret play a track that combines spellbinding drones with melodies full of wistful nostalgia.

She also plays the Overture to Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, brimming with catchy tunes, and Un bal from Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique is transformed in an arrangement for four accordions…

Plus, violinist Theotime Langlois de Swart aims to match the virtuosity of a Baroque devil.

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Music Played

  • Gustav Holst

    Suite in E flat major for military band, Op. 28, No. 1 (II. Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • British Wind Band Classics.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Quartet No. 4 in A minor, K. 298 (III. Rondeau. Allegretto grazioso)

    Performer: Sonora Slocum. Performer: Joel Link. Performer: Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt. Performer: Brook Speltz.
    • ACIS.
  • Ēriks Ešenvalds

    Stars

    Librettist: Sara Teasdale. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • DECCA.
  • Pietro Locatelli

    Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 3, No. 8

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Ensemble: Les Ombres. Director: Margaux Blanchard.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    The Gadfly Suite, Op 97a (V. Barrel Organ Waltz)

    Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • The Film Music of Dmitri Shostakovich, Vol.2: BBC Phil, Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • Leveret

    The Wounded Huzzar

    • ROOTBEAT RECORDS.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Clarinet Sonata, FP 184

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    La vera costanza (Overture)

    Orchestra: Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta. Conductor: Manfred Huss.
    • BIS.
  • Luke Whitlock

    Oceanic Interludes (III. The Shoal)

    Performer: Duncan Honeybourne.
    • PRIMA FACIE.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Spring Torrents, Op. 14, No. 11

    Performer: Lada Valešová. Singer: Natalya Romaniw.
    • ORCHID CLASSICS.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Pirates of Penzance (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • NAXOS.
  • Michel‐Richard de Lalande

    Lacrymosa dies illa; Pie Jesu (Dies Irae, S. 31)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Correspondances. Conductor: Sébastien Daucé.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie Fantastique, H. 48 (II. Un bal)

    Music Arranger: Thibaut Trosset. Ensemble: Quatuor Aeolina.
    • KLARTHE.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 11 (III. Minuetto. Allegro molto - Trio)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • DG.
  • Marianna Martines

    Sonata in A major

    Performer: Sarah Hagen.
    • SARAH HAGEN.
  • Aaron Copland

    Letter from Home (1962 version for chamber orchestra)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Robert Johnson

    The Witches' Dance

    Performer: Nigel North.
    • NAXOS.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    E lucevan le stelle (Tosca)

    Singer: Freddie De Tommaso. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Paolo Arrivabene.
    • DECCA.
  • Sayed Darwish

    El Helwa Di

    Performer: Tamer Pinarbasi. Performer: Tim Allhoff. Performer: Itamar Doari. Performer: Henning Sieverts. Performer: Burcu Karadağ. Singer: Fatma Said.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Boite a joujoux (I. Le magasin de jouets)

    Orchestrator: André Caplet. Orchestra: Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire. Conductor: Pascal Rophé.
    • BIS.
  • Quincy Jones

    Soul Bossa Nova

    Orchestra: Quincy Jones and His Orchestra.
    • VERVE.
  • Roxanna Panufnik

    The Call

    Performer: Alison Martin. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Valses nobles et sentimentales, M.61 (III. Modéré)

    Performer: Alasdair Beatson.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Valses nobles et sentimentales, M.61 (V. Presque lent - Dans un sentiment intime)

    Performer: Alasdair Beatson.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Valses nobles et sentimentales, M.61 (VI. Vif)

    Performer: Alasdair Beatson.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D for 3 violins, BWV 1064R

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Bojan Čičić. Performer: Johannes Pramsohler. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • CHANNEL.

Broadcast

  • Sun 6 Nov 2022 09:00