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An irresistible classical playlist for your morning

Sarah Walker with the perfect playlist to accompany your Sunday morning, including music by Poulenc, Brahms and Mendelssohn.

Sarah Walker reveals the perfect playlist for your morning, weaving through playful Beethoven, stately Ravel and lyrical Rachmaninov. This week’s Choral Reflection offers the hauntingly beautiful Agnus Dei from Frank Martin's Mass for Double Choir, and Sarah's Sunday Sequence reflects the Battle of Hastings, ahead of its anniversary on 14th October. Plus a chance to hear Francis Poulenc's sparkling Sinfonietta in its entirety: a work written for Radio 3's forerunner, The Third Programme.

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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    En bateau (Petite suite)

    Orchestrator: Henri Büsser. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Jun Märkl.
    • Debussy: Orchestral Works, Vol. 6.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Reinhold Moritzevich Glière

    Harp Concerto Op.74 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Masters. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Florence Price

    String Quartet no.2 in A Minor (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence B. Price.
    • Azica Records.
    • 10.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No.2 in B Flat Major (4th mvt)

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 & Three Intermezzi Op. 117.
    • Pentatone.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Phaeton (Chaconne)

    Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Director: Christophe Rousset.
    • APARTE.

  • Edward Elgar

    Romance, Op 62

    Performer: Karen Geoghegan. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: Benjamin Wallfisch.
    • Karen Geoghegan plays Bassoon Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 011.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major Op.20 for strings; 3rd movement; Scherzo

    Performer: Quatuor Ébène. Performer: Belcea Quartet.
    • Erato.

  • Frank Martin

    Mass for Double Choir: V. Agnus Dei

    Conductor: Marcus Creed. Choir: Danish National Vocal Ensemble.
    • The Secret Mass: Choral Works by Frank Martin & Bohuslav Martinů.
    • OUR Recordings.
    • 5.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Mazurka, Op 81 No 1

    Performer: Tamsin Waley-Cohen. Performer: Huw Watkins.
    • 1917: Works for Violin & Piano by Debussy, Respighi, Sibelius and Elgar.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: 3rd mvt

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

  • Henry Purcell

    The Virtuous Wife, Z. 611: No. 3, Slow Air (Arr. for Lute by Toby Carr)

    Performer: Toby Carr.
    • The Virtuous Wife, Z. 611: No. 3, Slow Air (Arr. for Lute by Toby Carr).
    • Delphian Records.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Cello sonata in G minor, Op 19; 2nd mvt, Allegro scherzando

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Inon Barnatan.
    • Decca.

  • Debbie Wiseman

    William I

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra.
    • The Music Of Kings & Queens.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 4.

  • Anonymous

    Firmetur manus tua

    Ensemble: Discantus. Director: Brigitte Lesne.
    • Music for a King - The Winchester Troper.
    • Aeon.
    • 4.

  • William Walton

    Orb and Sceptre

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kazuki Yamada.
    • Walton: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Orb and Sceptre (Live).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Edwin York Bowen

    Reverie in B major, Op 86

    Performer: Nuron Mukumi.
    • Bowen: Rêverie in B Major, Op. 86. Andante espressivo e rubato.
    • Prospero Classical.
    • 1.

  • Richard Strauss

    Horn Concerto No 1 in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • EMI.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Sonatine - I. Modere

    Performer: Stewart Goodyear.
    • ORCHID.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op.64`5 'The Lark' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • AVI MUSIC.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sinfonietta, FP 141

    Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud. Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland.
    • Poulenc: Les biches Suite, Les animaux modèles Suite & Sinfonietta.
    • Naxos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in B flat major, K.361 (3rd mvt, Adagio)

    Orchestra: Consortium Classicum.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.

  • Helena Munktell

    Dala Suite Op.22, 3rd mvt: Danses rustiques

    Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Tobias Ringborg.
    • STERLING.

  • Franz Schubert

    Frühlingsglaube, D 686

    Performer: Jonathan Biss. Singer: Mark Padmore.

  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the Shore

    Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Grainger: Works for Wind Orchestra Vol.4: Royal Northern College of Music Wind O.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Courtney Pine

    The Morning After the Night Before

    Performer: Alec Dankworth. Performer: Rod Youngs. Performer: Chris Cobbson.
    • Black Notes from the Deep.
    • Freestyle Records.
    • 6.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    2 Pieces for cello and orchestra, Op. 20: No. 1, Melody

    Performer: Daniel Müller‐Schott. Conductor: Aziz Shokhakimov. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin.
    • Trip to Russia.
    • Orfeo.
    • 1.

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