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Three hours of classical sparkle

Join Sarah Walker for three hours of classical music and a gentle, uplifting soundtrack for this Mothering Sunday.

This week on Sunday Morning, Sarah Walker has three hours of uplifting music - including luminous orchestral colour from Debussy and the sparkling playing of L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra from their new recording of Suites from the French Baroque.

The King's Singers shine in this week’s Choral Reflection - a gorgeous setting of O Christ, who art the Light and Day from the Renaissance Londoner Robert White. And we head to the Suffolk coast with Britten's atmospheric Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes.

There's also a chance to hear a stunning complete recording of Sibelius' triumphant 5th Symphony, and Sarah celebrates Mothering Sunday in her Sunday Sequence at 10.15.

Also, composer and pianist Olivia Belli reworks Puccini...

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Music Played

  • Jean‐Marie Leclair

    Violin Concerto in F major, Op 7 No 4 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow. Orchestra: Auvergne Chamber Orchestra.
    • Virtuoso Violin Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • Josef Suk

    When mother was still a little girl (About Mother Op.28)

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Suk: Piano Works: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.

  • Claude Debussy

    Prélude à l'aprÚs-midi d'un faune, L 86

    Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • LSO Live.

  • John Williams

    Lincoln "The People's House"

    Performer: Robert Chen. Conductor: John Williams. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Chicago Symphony Chorus.
    • Lincoln.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.22 in E flat major K.482 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jonathan Biss. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Gayaneh (Sabre Dance)

    Conductor: Aram Khachaturian. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Bucolic Suite - IV. Finale

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Yates.
    • DUTTON EPOCH.

  • Robert White

    Christe qui lux es et Dies I

    Ensemble: The King’s Singers.
    • Head Space: Candlelight.
    • Signum Records.
    • 2.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Vissi d'Arte (Olivia Belli Rework)

    Performer: Olivia Belli. Music Arranger: Olivia Belli.
    • XXIM Records.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Gianni Schicchi (O mio babbino caro)

    Lyricist: Giovacchino Forzano. Lyricist: Dante Alighieri. Singer: Renée Fleming. Conductor: Charles Mackerras. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • The Art of RenĂ©e Fleming.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
    • 11.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes, Op 33a (Peter Grimes)

    Conductor: Edward Gardner. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Richard Strauss

    3 GesÀnge Àlterer deutscher Dichter, Op 43 (No 2, MuttertÀndelei)

    Lyricist: Gottfried August BĂŒrger. Singer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Conductor: George Szell. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin.
    • Warner Classics.

  • William Grant Still

    Mother and Child

    Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
    • American and English Orchestral Music.
    • Claves Records.
    • 9.

  • AntonĂ­n Dvoƙák

    Songs My Mother Taught Me (Gypsy Songs, Op 55, No 4)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Songs from the Arc of Life.
    • Masterworks.
    • 3.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Conductor: James MacMillan. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Mendelssohn Violin Concerto.
    • Decca (UMO).

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Arabesque

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Qian Wu.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Indes Galantes Suite (No 7 & No 8)

    Orchestra: L’Orfeo Barockorchester. Conductor: Michi Gaigg.
    • CPO.

  • Maria Szymanowska

    Nocturne in B flat major

    Performer: Nareh Arghamanyan.
    • HĂ€nssler.

  • Thomas Weelkes

    Hosanna to the Son of David

    Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore. Choir: Ex Cathedra.
    • Ex Cathedra.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Suite for Variety Orchestra (5th mvt, 'Lyric Waltz')

    Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • BIS.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 5 in E flat major, Op 82

    Conductor: Nicholas Collon. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Ondine.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Lamento della Ninfa (No 2, 'Amor')

    Performer: Sylvain Bergeron. Performer: Amanda Keesmaat. Performer: Abraham Ross. Singer: Haitham Haidar.
    • Athene.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht (Cantata BWV 105: Aria)

    Performer: Fred Thomas. Music Arranger: Fred Thomas.
    • ECM New Series.

  • Britten Sinfonia, Scott David Stroman & Alison Balsom

    On the Town, Act 1: Lonely Town. Pas de deux

    • Warner Classics.

  • Julius Fucik

    Entry of the Gladiators, Op.68

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Libor PeĆĄek.
    • Smetana: The Moldau; RLPO, Libor Pesek.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 12.

  • Emahoy TseguĂ©-Maryam GuĂšbrou

    Ballad of the Spirits

    Performer: Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam GuÚbrou.
    • Buda Music.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Suite No. 3, P. 172: III. Siciliana

    Orchestra: Sinfonia 21. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs & Dances.
    • Chandos.
    • 108.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E-Flat Major, H 277 (2nd mvt, Allegretto)

    • Reflets du temps.
    • GFN Classics.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Sun 15 Mar 202609:00
    BBC Radio 3