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Three Hours of Classical Sparkle

Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whatever the weather.

Today, Sarah chooses orchestral gems from Gershwin and Mozart, Spanish flavours from Massenet and de Falla, and delicate piano from Schubert in the hands of Arcadi Volodos.

There’s a chance to hear the whole of Rachmaninov's soul-stirring Second Piano Concerto, and this week's Choral Reflection guides us home with the music of Stephen Paulus.

Also, Prokofiev whisks us off to the dancefloor…

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3.

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Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Das Jahr (No 4, April - Capriccioso)

    Performer: Diana Sahakyan.
    • Jens F Meier.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore, Act II)

    Lyricist: Felice Romani. Lyricist: Eugène Scribe. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Conductor: Richard Bonynge. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Pavarotti's Greatest Hits.
    • Decca.
    • 11.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    24 Preludes, Op 11 (No 21 in B flat major)

    Performer: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Christoph Graupner

    Sinfonia in E major GWV 562

    Conductor: Florian Heyerick. Orchestra: Il Gardellino.
    • CPO.

  • Manuel de Falla

    El sombrero de tres picos (Pt 2: 'Danza del molinero')

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Singer: Ann Murray.
    • Warner Classics.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite in B flat major, HWV 434 (4th mvt, Menuet)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Motherland.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Clarinet Sonata, FP 184 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Oleg Maisenberg.
    • French Recital.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.

  • Erland Cooper

    Folded Landscapes: Movement 6 (instrumental)

    Orchestra: Scottish Ensemble.
    • Mercury Classics.

  • Michael Dennis Browne

    The Road Home

    Choir: Brigham Young University Combined Choirs.
    • Tantara Records.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 35 in D major, K 385, 'Haffner'

    Conductor: Trevor Pinnock. Orchestra: The English Concert.
    • Archiv Produktion.

  • Franz Schubert

    Minuet in A major, D 334

    Performer: Arcadi Volodos.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Die Schöpfung, Pt. 1: No. 13, Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes

    Lyricist: Gottfried van Swieten. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir.
    • BR-Klassik.

  • John Williams

    Flying (E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial OST)

    • Geffen.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    A Trip to the Moon (Act 3, Ballet of the Snowflakes: No 6, 'Galop final')

    Conductor: Marc Minkowski. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre.
    • Le Romantique.
    • Archiv Produktion.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G major, M 83 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Conductor: Ludovic Morlot. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.

  • Cristóbal de Morales

    Jubilate Deo omnis terra

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Josephine Lang

    An den See Variation (After 6 Deutsche Lieder: No 4, 'An den See'))

    Composer: Jan-Peter Klöpfel. Performer: Eldbjorg Hemsing. Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Sophie Pacini.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Grand Waltz (Cinderella, Op 87, arr for violin, piano and ensemble)

    Performer: Nemanja Radulović. Performer: Laure Favre-Kahn. Performer: Benoît Daldin. Performer: Gauthier Simon. Performer: Marija Petrović. Music Arranger: Aleksandar Sedlar. Ensemble: Les Trilles du Diable.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op 18

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    A Good-Night

    Lyricist: Francis Quarles. Choir: The Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.
    • Lux aeterna: A Sequence for the Souls of the Departed.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.

  • George Gershwin

    Porgy and Bess, a Symphonic Picture (arr for orchestra)

    Music Arranger: Robert Russell Bennett. Conductor: Barbara Hannigan. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
    • An American Dream?.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 5.

  • Fernando Obradors

    El vito

    Performer: Santiago Sánchez. Performer: Ian Tindale.

  • Claude Debussy

    La mer (2nd mvt, 'Jeux de vagues')

    Conductor: Pierre Boulez. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Suite In G Minor [Pieces De Clavecin 1687] (Prelude)

    • De La Guerre: Pieces De Clavecin Vol. 1 & 2.
    • OnClassical.
    • 10.

  • Jules Massenet

    Espada Suite (4th mvt, 'La danse de la Mercédès')

    Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Naxos.

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