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A classically inviting Sunday selection

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re on your way to the park or staying in to solve the weekend crossword.

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

In this morning’s musical selection, Alfred Brendel captures the understated grace of a Schubert Impromptu, guitarist Gerard Cousins plays Philip Glass with poise, and one of Hungary’s most celebrated composers anticipates summer with a mellow orchestral idyll.

There’s also drama from Richard Strauss as he illustrates the misadventures of a famous fictional prankster, while Richard Egarr conjures a wild and wonderful opening solo for a Handel organ concerto.

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3

3 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Sun 24 Mar 2024 09:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gabriel Jackson

    To Morning

    Ensemble: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.

  • Thomas Arne

    Eight Overtures in 8 Parts: No. 4 in F major (II. Con spirito)

    Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major Op.57

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • 4 Scherzi / Berceuse / Barcarolle (feat. piano: Maurizio Pollini).
    • DG.
    • 5.

  • Max Richter

    Spring III (The Four Seasons Recomposed)

    Composer: Antonio Vivaldi. Performer: Fenella Humphreys. Orchestra: Covent Garden Sinfonia. Conductor: Ben Palmer.
    • RUBICON.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Andante in F major K.616

    Music Arranger: Michael Hasel. Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin.
    • Mozart: Music for Piano and Wind Quintet.
    • BIS.
    • 8.

  • Zoltán Kodály

    Summer Evening

    Conductor: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • NAXOS.

  • Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

    Prelude in D major, VL305

    Performer: Joana Daunytė. Music Arranger: Joana Daunytė.
    • NAXOS.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Suite 'Le bourgeois gentilhomme' (Marche)

    Director: Jordi Savall. Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations.
    • Jean-Baptiste Lully: L'Orchestre du Roi Soleil/Le Concert Des Nations/Jordi Sava.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 4.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu No. 3 in B flat major, D. 935

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hear my prayer; O for the wings of a dove

    Performer: Mark Williams. Singer: Rachel Bennett. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Richard Marlow.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Fabritio Caroso

    La Villanella Balletto

    Choir: Capella de la Torre. Director: Katharina Bäuml.
    • DEUTSCHE HM.

  • Richard Strauss

    Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Rebecca Dale

    Salve Regina

    Ensemble: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Amy Beach

    Young Birches, Op. 128 No. 2

    Performer: Joanne Polk.
    • ARABESQUE.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major BWV1068 (I. Ouverture; II. Air)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Ave Maria (Vespers)

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.
    • Veni Emmanuel: Music for Advent.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 21.

  • Richard Wagner

    The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (Prelude, Act 1)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • WARNER.

  • Traditional Scottish

    Hard Is My Fate

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Andrew Lawrence‐King. Music Arranger: Andrew Lawrence‐King.
    • ALIA VOX.

  • Giovanni Picchi

    Canzon 19 a 8

    Performer: Flanders Recorder Quartet. Performer: Philippe Pierlot. Performer: Piet Stryckers. Performer: Kaori Uemura. Performer: Sophie Watillon. Performer: Guy Penson.
    • BRILLIANT.

  • Paul Wranitzky

    Symphony in G major Op. 50 (IV. Finale)

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic. Conductor: Rolf Gupta.
    • CPO.

  • Philip Glass

    Escape! (The Hours)

    Performer: Gerard Cousins.
    • ORANGE MOUNTAIN MUSIC.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in A flat major, Op 110 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Beethoven, The Late Piano Sonatas Nos. 28-32: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.

  • Cristóbal de Morales

    Parce Mihi Domine

    Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble.
    • ECM.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto in B flat, Op. 7 No. 1

    Performer: Richard Egarr. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Clara Schumann

    Leidendschaftlich schnell (3 Romances, Op. 22 No. 3)

    Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • DG.

Broadcast

  • Sun 24 Mar 2024 09:00
    BBC Radio 3