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Sarah Walker with a rare musical mix

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re enjoying a coffee in the garden or doing some errands.

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

Today, Sarah finds the dark brooding moods of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Liszt’s symphonic poem of the same name, enjoys Schubert at his most melodic in a piano transcription of Rosamunde, and Maddalena Laura Sirmen's brilliance as a violinist is clear from the way she writes for the instrument in her Violin Concerto in B flat major.

There's also a tribute paid to the Yuwaalaraay - an Aboriginal Australian people - with a transcription for wind instruments of the only Yuwaalaraay song ever recorded, and pianist Clare Hammond brings out the flowing harmonic progressions of a piano etude by Hélène de Montgeroult.

Plus, a French waltz on the accordion which is both sweet and virtuosic…

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Sun 26 Feb 2023 09:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Symphony No. 3 (III. Vivace)

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lukasz Borowicz.
    • CPO.

  • Antoine Reicha

    Wind Quintet in E minor, Op. 88, No. 1 (I. Menuetto. Allegro vivo)

    Ensemble: Belfiato Quintet.
    • SUPRAPHON.

  • Frederick Delius

    The March of the Spring (North Country Sketches, No. 4)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Le Carillon de Cythere (Livres de Clavecin, Book 3)

    Performer: Sérgio Assad. Performer: Odair Assad.
    • ELEKTRA NONESUCH.

  • Anon.

    Solistvals

    Performer: Gjermund Larsen. Music Arranger: Gjermund Larsen. Singer: Berit Opheim. Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • BIS.

  • Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen

    Violin Concerto in B flat major, Op. 3, No. 1

    Performer: Zefira Valova. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro.
    • APARTE.

  • Jacobus Clemens non Papa

    Sanctus

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.

  • Franz Schubert

    Entr'acte No. 3 (Rosamunde, Op. 26, No. 6)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • ERATO.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F, BWV 1047

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Abbie Betinis

    Cedit, hyems

    Performer: Claire Wickes. Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.
    • DELPHIAN.

  • Michel Péguri

    La Bourrasque

    Performer: Tim Edey. Performer: Donnell Leahy. Performer: James Lindsey.
    • GNATBITE.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Má vlast (II. Vltava)

    Orchestra: Collegium 1704. Conductor: Václav Luks.
    • ACCENT.

  • Ali Osman

    Afromood

    Performer: Itamar Zorman. Performer: Kwan Yi. Performer: Julia Thompson.
    • FIRST HAND.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (Act 1, Scenes 3-6)

    Singer: Michael Schopper. Singer: Olivier Lallouette. Ensemble: Concerto Vocale. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Natalie Nicolas

    We Won't Let You Down

    Ensemble: ACO Collective.
    • ABC CLASSICS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Durch Zärtlichkeit und Schmeicheln (Die Entführung aus dem Seraill, K. 384)

    Singer: Anna Prohaska. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • DG.

  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Piano Étude No. 110 in A major

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • BIS.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Roman Carnival Overture

    Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Music Arranger: Frank Wright. Conductor: Gary Gutt.
    • SONY.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Lincolnshire Poacher (Folksong Arrangements, Book 5, No. 3)

    Performer: Philip Ledger. Singer: Robert Tear.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Sonny Rollins

    St. Thomas

    Performer: Ron Carter. Performer: Roy McCurdy.
    • RCA.

  • Nicola Matteis

    Ground After the Scotch Humour

    Ensemble: Theatrum Affectuum.
    • AEOLUS.

  • William Henry Harris

    Bring us O Lord God

    Choir: Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge. Conductor: Mark Williams.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    7 Bagatelles, Op. 33 (III. Allegretto)

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Franz Liszt

    Hamlet, Symphonic Poem No. 10, S. 104

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Lera Auerbach

    Don't Prolong Goodbyes

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Ensemble: Lockenhaus Strings.
    • ALPHA.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, H.7b.1 (III. Allegro molto)

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Ensemble: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • Genuin.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in C minor, B108

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes and Impromptus: Angela Hewitt, piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Arnold Bax

    The Happy Forest

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Made In Britain.
    • Avie.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Sun 26 Feb 2023 09:00
    BBC Radio 3