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Three hours of classical sparkle

Join Sarah Walker for three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, including a calming Choral Reflection at 9.45, and another specially chosen Sunday Sequence.

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

Today, Sarah chooses music from Anna Clyne inspired by an image of the Caribbean Sea, Angela Hewitt plays Chopin with typical panache, and there's a flowing Romance by Dvorak.

We’ll also be meandering through a nostalgic English landscape with Delius’s Brigg Fair, and we’re treated to the mighty first movement of Brahms's First Piano Concerto in a critically acclaimed recording by Simon Trpceski.

Plus, this week's tranquil Choral Reflection at 9.45 is from William Byrd's Retire My Soul by Renaissance specialists Stile Antico.

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade No 13 in G major, K 525, 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (1st mvt)

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

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Ethiopia Saluting the Colours

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Peebles.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Orchestral Works.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 101.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    2 Nocturnes Op.55 (no.2 in E flat major)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Romance in F minor, Op 11, B 39

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Conductor: John Storgårds. Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Ondine.

  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Performer: John Lavender.
    • Heritage Records.

  • William Byrd

    Retire My Soul

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.

  • Franz Lehár

    Gold and Silver Waltz, Op 79

    Performer: Michael Dittrich. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Naxos.

  • Trad.

    Danny Boy

    Performer: Ralph Towner. Lyricist: Trad..
    • At First Light.
    • ECM Records.
    • 7.

  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Sinfonia in re minore (Allegro con spirito)

    Conductor: Diego Dini Ciacci. Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Palermo.
    • Sony Classical.

  • James MacMillan

    Scots Song

    Ensemble: The King’s Singers.
    • The Library Vol 2.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.

  • Trad.

    Ae Fond Kiss

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Music Arranger: Paul Campbell. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rory Macdonald.
    • Homecoming - A Scottish Fantasy.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
    • 5.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Chanson écossaise, M A12

    Performer: François-Xavier Poizat. Singer: Brenda Poupard.
    • Aparté.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in A major, Op 6 No 11, HWV 329

    Conductor: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • Gustav Holst

    2nd Suite for Military Band in F major, Op 28 No 2 (1st mvt, 'March')

    Conductor: Howard Dunn. Ensemble: Dallas Winds.
    • REFERENCE.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasiestücke, Op. 12: No. 3, Warum?

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Schumann & Brahms: Piano Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 103.

  • Anna Clyne

    Abstractions (3rd mvt, 'Seascape')

    Conductor: Marin Alsop. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
    • Anna Clyne: Abstractions.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor, Op 15 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Simon Trpceski. Conductor: Cristian Măcelaru. Orchestra: WDR Sinfonieorchester.
    • Linn Records.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Phantasy Quintet (1st mvt, 'Prelude')

    Performer: Zahra Benyounes. Ensemble: Piatti Quartet.
    • Rubicon.

  • Georges Bizet

    Jeux d'enfants (Le bal)

    Conductor: Andrew Davis. Orchestra: Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
    • CBS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Der Herr denket an uns (Wedding Cantata), BWV 196

    Choir: Vox Luminis. Ensemble: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Lionel Meunier.

  • Joe Hisaishi

    Merry-Go-Round of Life (Howl's Moving Castle)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Joe Hisaishi.
    • Universal Music LLC.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Matinées musicales, Op 24 (Waltz)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Rossini/Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque: National Philharmonic Orch/Bonynge.
    • Decca.
    • 9.

  • Frederick Delius

    Brigg Fair

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • SONY.

Broadcast

  • Sun 25 Jan 202609:00
    BBC Radio 3