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A perfect classical Sunday mix

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re doing a spot of gardening or settling down with the crossword.

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

In today’s programme, harpist Floraleda Sacchi finds lighthearted joy in a Sophia Dussek sonata, Voces8 capture the ethereal beauty of the northern lights, and the Dallas Wind Symphony showcase the exuberance of Malcolm Arnold.

And while Daniel Barenboim joins Beethoven in the countryside, Libor Pesek guides the Prague Symphony Orchestra through the woodlands of Smetana’s native Bohemia.

Plus, Vivaldi as you’ve never heard him before…

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3

3 hours

Last on

Sun 26 May 2024 09:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Malcolm Arnold

    English Dances, Set 1 (IV. Allegro Risoluto)

    Music Arranger: Maurice Johnson. Ensemble: Dallas Winds. Conductor: Jerry Junkin.
    • REFERENCE RECORDINGS.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    O Clap Your Hands

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 6 in F major, 'Pastoral' (II. Scene am Bach, Andante molto moto)

    Orchestra: Berlin Staatskapelle. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • WARNER.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon and Gigue in D major

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • DECCA.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi Variation

    Composer: Florian Christl. Performer: Florian Christl.
    • SONY.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Northern Lights

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • DECCA.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Tarantelle in A minor, Op.6

    Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • BIS.

  • Florence Price

    Clouds

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • FLIPSIDE MUSIC.

  • Joseph Haydn

    The Creation: 'Die himmel erzahlen die Ehre Gottes'

    Singer: Christina Landshamer. Singer: Maximilian Schmitt. Singer: Rudolf Rosen. Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs‐Élysées. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • PHI.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Pirates of Penzance (Overture)

    Orchestra: New D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: John Pryce-Jones.
    • TER CLASSICS.

  • Erik Satie

    Gymnopedie No. 3

    Performer: Markus Klinko.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet, Op. 2, 'Gradus Ad Parnassum' (IV. Finale)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture (Suite) in C major, TWV 55: C6

    Orchestra: Kölner Kammerorchester. Conductor: Helmut Müller‐Brühl.
    • NAXOS.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia On a Theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Sophia Dussek

    Harp Sonata in F major, Op. 2 No. 5 (III. Allegretto)

    Performer: Floraleda Sacchi.
    • TACTUS.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Fugue No. 7 in A major (24 Preludes and Fugues)

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • SONY.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65

    Composer: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • RCA.

  • Leroy Anderson

    The Typewriter

    Performer: Alasdair Malloy. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Leroy Anderson - Orchestral Works Volume 3.
    • NAXOS.
    • 16.

  • Orlande de Lassus

    Ave verum corpus

    Ensemble: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • COLLEGIUM.

  • Philip Glass

    Glassworks (Opening)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • DG.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 32 in G major, K. 318 (Overture in G)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • DECCA.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

    Performer: Earl Wild. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jascha Horenstein.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ Concerto No. 1, BWV 592 (I. - After Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar's Violin Concerto in G)

    Performer: Ton Koopman.
    • WARNER.

  • Richard M. Sherman

    Hushabye Mountain

    Composer: Robert B. Sherman. Composer: Irwin Kostal. Singer: Dick Van Dyke.
    • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
    • Rykodisc.
    • 6.

  • Zoltán Kodály

    Esti Dal, K. 110

    Choir: Danish National Vocal Ensemble. Conductor: Marcus Creed.
    • Kodály & Ligeti: Choral Works.
    • OUR Recordings.
    • 501.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (Ma Vlast)

    Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Libor Pešek.
    • SONY.

Broadcast

  • Sun 26 May 2024 09:00
    BBC Radio 3