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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 going for a walk or doing some gardening.

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

Today, there are searing harmonic suspensions in a concerto by Evaristo Felice dall’Abaco, mysterious overlapping chords in Messiaen’s ‘The Dove’, and winding melodies in Nishlyn Ramanna’s track N3 East.

There are also musical conversations in Baroque composer Isabella Leonarda’s 'Purple Flowers', and Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Lonely Town’ from On the Town soars with nostalgia.

Plus, a piece by Dmitry Kabalevsky that takes Sarah back to her student days as a pianist…

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Sun 5 Feb 2023 09:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Chaconne des Maures (Alcidiane)

    Ensemble: Aradia Ensemble. Director: Kevin Mallon.
    • NAXOS.

  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Piano Sonatina in C major, Op. 13, No. 1

    Performer: Alexandre Dossin.
    • NAXOS.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Prince Igor (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DECCA.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major (III. Allegro)

    Music Arranger: Amsterdam Guitar Trio. Ensemble: Amsterdam Guitar Trio.
    • RCA RED SEAL.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Lonely Town. Pas de deux (On The Town, Act 1)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Scott Stroman.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Vincenzo Manfredini

    A noi vivi donna eccelsa (Carlo Magno)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Choir: Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera. Orchestra: I Barocchisti. Conductor: Diego Fasolis.
    • DECCA.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No. 2 in B flat, Op. 4 (III. Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • DECCA.

  • Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita

    Ceffylau [Horses]

    • ARC.

  • Frederic Austin

    Spring (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • British Tone Poems vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon & Gigue 'a 3 violinis con suo basso'

    Performer: Andrew Manze. Performer: John Holloway. Performer: Stanley Ritchie. Performer: John Toll. Performer: Nigel North. Performer: Mary Springfels.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Charles Koechlin

    Vers la plage lointaine (2 Poemes symphoniques, Op. 43)

    Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Heinz Holliger.
    • HANSSLER.

  • Fazil Say

    Jazz Fantasy on Mozart

    Performer: Gina Alice.
    • UNIVERSAL MUSIC CHINA.

  • Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco

    Concerto a quattro da chiesa in D minor, Op. 2, No. 1

    Ensemble: Concerto Köln.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Ludwig Thuille

    Sextet for piano and winds in B flat major, Op. 6 (III. Gavotte)

    Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Il est quelqu'un sur terre (Folksong Arrangements, Vol 1, No. 6)

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia. Music Arranger: Thibaut Garcia. Singer: Philippe Jaroussky.
    • ERATO.

  • Billy Mayerl

    Fiddle Dance

    Performer: Peter Jacobs.
    • HERITAGE.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Semiramide (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Magnificat

    Ensemble: Nuove Musiche.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 (IV. Finale. Allegro)

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • ERATO.

  • Meredith Willson

    76 Trombones (The Music Man)

    Composer: Leroy Anderson. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • NAXOS.

  • Isabella Leonarda

    Purpurie flores, Op. 20, No. 3

    Singer: Myriam Leblanc. Ensemble: Ensemble La Cigale. Director: Madeleine Owen.
    • ANALEKTA.

  • George Frideric Handel

    He gave them hailstones (Israel in Egypt)

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Ensemble: Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • DECCA.

  • Antonio Bazzini

    Scherzo fantastique, Op.25, 'The Dance of the Goblins'

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Performer: Charles Abramovic.
    • EMI.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    The Dove (Préludes pour piano)

    Performer: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard.
    • DG.

  • Anton Webern

    Etwas bewegt (Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6, No. 1)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in B major, BWV 868 (The Well-Tempered Klavier, Book 1, No. 23)

    Performer: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard.
    • DG.

  • Nishlyn Ramanna

    N3 East

    Performer: Nishlyn Ramanna. Performer: James Opstad. Performer: Jon Opstad.
    • NEW CANVAS.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Siam navi all'onde (L'Olimpiade)

    Singer: Patricia Petibon. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • Rosso Italian Baroque Arias: Patricia Petibon.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 11.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 33, No. 1

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SONY.

Broadcast

  • Sun 5 Feb 2023 09:00
    BBC Radio 3