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Three hours of classical sparkle

Sarah Walker chooses uplifting music to accompany your morning, whether you’re enjoying a quiet coffee or heading out into the outdoors.

This week, Sarah’s playlist takes in far away lands, boundless seascapes, and an endless maze of sun-washed streets.

There’ll be soaring, heart-melting harmonies from Rachmaninov, Mel Bonis conjures forgotten scenes of the Orient, while Saint-Saëns whisks us away into a world of mystery.

For this week’s Choral reflection, Sarah heads off to Latvia with ethereal music by Pēteris Vasks sung by the Latvian Radio Choir, and there’s also a chance to hear the shimmering textures of Debussy’s La Mer in full.

Plus, music to capture the golden drift of long summer afternoons by Agustín Barrios…

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3.

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Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Legends, Op 59 (No 6)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Tomáš Netopil.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Rachel Portman

    Flight

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Flight.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27

    Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • LINN.

  • Nicola Porpora

    Carlo il Calvo (Overture)

    Ensemble: Concerto Köln. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.
    • El Maestro - Farinelli.
    • Archiv.
    • 2.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in A major, Op 118 No 2

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Yuja Wang. Music Arranger: Nicolai Popov.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.39 in E flat major K.543 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Conductor: Antonello Manacorda.
    • Mozart Symphonies Nos. 39, 40, 41.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Peteris Vasks

    The Fruit of Silence

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards Kļava.
    • Songs of My Heart.
    • Ondine.
    • 102.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    Valse in A flat major, Op 38

    Performer: Daria Vasileva.
    • Aparté.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Danse macabre, Op. 40

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • French Orchestral Favourites.
    • Chandos.
    • 105.

  • Trad.

    Wild Mountain Thyme

    Music Arranger: The Ayoub Sisters. Ensemble: The Ayoub Sisters. Ensemble: The Ayoub Sisters. Ensemble: The Ayoub Sisters.

  • George Gershwin

    Chinese Blues (arr for marimba and string quartet)

    Performer: Vassilena Serafimova. Music Arranger: Hristo Yotsov. Ensemble: Quatuor Ardeo.
    • Melodies in a Bottle.
    • La Dolce Volta.
    • 15.

  • King Henry VIII of England

    En vray amoure

    Performer: Toby Carr.
    • En vray amoure.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 1.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Matinées musicales, Op 24 (4th mvt, 'Pantomime')

    Conductor: Okko Kamu. Orchestra: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester.
    • Ondine.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op 64 No 5, Hob III:63, 'The Lark' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Chandos.

  • Agustín Barrios Mangoré

    Caazapá (Aire popular paraguaya)

    Performer: Pietro Locatto.
    • La voz de Barrios.
    • Evidence Classics.
    • 1.

  • Léo Delibes

    Flower Duet (Lakmé)

    Singer: Nadine Sierra. Singer: Pretty Yende. Orchestra: Les Frivolités Parisiennes. Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti.
    • Nadine Sierra & Pretty Yende in Concert.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 9.

  • Mel Brooks

    Overture: The Producers

    Lyricist: Mel Brooks. Orchestra: The Producers Orchestra. Conductor: Patrick Brady.
    • The Producers (Original Broadway Cast Recording).
    • Masterworks Broadway.
    • 1.

  • William Byrd

    Peccantem me quotidie a 5, T. 6 (Cantiones Sacrae, 1575)

    Lyricist: Anon.. Conductor: Owain Park. Choir: The Gesualdo Six.
    • Lux aeterna: A Sequence for the Souls of the Departed.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Claude Debussy

    La Mer

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.

  • Adrian Jack

    Bleu céleste

    Performer: Ingryd Thorson. Performer: Julian Thurber.
    • Adrian Jack - Works for 2 Pianos.
    • Thoth.
    • 11.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Cantabile in D Major, Op. 17

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: Michail Lifits.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No 1 "Classical" (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Aziz Shokhakimov. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 "Classical", Suites Nos. 1 & 2 from Romeo and Juliet.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • Mel Bonis

    Suite orientale, Op. 48/2: I. Prelude

    Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Mel Bonis: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos Records Ltd.
    • 8.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz No 7 in C sharp minor, Op 64 No 2 (Musical Moments)

    Performer: Rafał Blechacz.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Dora Pejačević

    Symphony in F sharp minor Op.41 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Chandos.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043: II. Largo ma non tanto

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Pinchas Zukerman. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Bach: Violin Concertos & Double Concerto.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 110.

Broadcast

  • Sun 28 Jun 202609:00
    BBC Radio 3