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Two hours of classical sparkle

Sarah Walker is here to accompany your Sunday morning, whether you’re relaxing on holiday, doing a spot of gardening, or cooking a roast dinner for the family.

Sarah Walker is here with a effervescent playlist of classical music to accompany your Sunday morning, whether you’re relaxing on holiday, doing a spot of gardening, or cooking a roast dinner for the family.

Today's choral reflection is one of Gustav Holst’s Choral Folksongs, the beautifully evocative “I Love My Love”; and Sarah's Sunday Sequence celebrates the recent International Left-handers day, with recordings by Daniel Barenboim and Nicola Benedetti, and the music of Alexander Scriabin.

Plus, a real treat for your Sunday Morning – the finale of Brahms’s first symphony, from the highly praised 2024 recording by Yannick Nezet-Seguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, live at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden.

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Sun 16 Aug 202609:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon duodecimi toni a 10

    Ensemble: Empire Brass. Conductor: Rolf Smedvig.
    • TELARC.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Song to the moon (Rusalka)

    Music Arranger: Pablo Ferrández. Performer: Pablo Ferrández. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Frost.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Overture to the Masque of Pandora

    Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.

  • Dietrich Becker

    Sonata a 3

    Ensemble: Europäisches Hanse-Ensemble. Director: Manfred Cordes.
    • CPO.

  • Johann Strauss II

    An der schönen, blauen Donau

    Conductor: Riccardo Muti. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Nell, Op 18 No 1

    Performer: Angela Hewitt. Music Arranger: Percy Grainger.
    • Hyperion.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No 2 (4th mvt, Bergamasca)

    Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Henry Raudales.
    • CPO.

  • Gustav Holst

    6 Choral Folksongs (No 5, 'I Love My Love')

    Choir: Holst Singers. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Richard Heuberger

    Midnight Bells (Der Opernball)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano. Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler.
    • 12 Stradivari.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 1 in D major (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Osmo Vänskä. Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra.
    • BIS.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Daisies (Six Romances, Op 38)

    Performer: Marc Bouchkov. Performer: Julien Quentin.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Demande et réponse (Petite suite de concert Op.77)

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • Naxos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 23 in A major, K 488 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • The Silver Violin.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    Prelude and Nocturne for the Left Hand, Op 9 (2nd mvt, Nocturne)

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • Vers la flamme.
    • BIS.
    • 117.

  • Alfonso Ferrabosco

    Laboravi in gemitu meo

    Choir: The Queen’s Six.
    • Troubled Times: Music and Espionage in Renaissance England.
    • Signum Records.
    • 12.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony no.1 in C minor Op.68 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Cantate Domino

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Voces 8 - A Choral Tapestry.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Sun 16 Aug 202609:00
    BBC Radio 3