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Your perfect Sunday soundtrack

Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you鈥檙e tackling chores, enjoying a brew, or simply watching the clouds go by.

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

Today, Sarah has sumptuous orchestral music including a piano concerto by Ravel, the iconic opening movement of Beethoven鈥檚 Eroica Symphony, and a symphonic poem by Liszt that is rumoured to have been Wagner鈥檚 personal favourite.

There鈥檚 also a Bach prelude with an entirely new melody composed on top, a choral piece by Roxanna Panufnik that combines timeless plainsong with lilting repetition, and a burst of Mediterranean sunshine in a rhapsody by Emmanuel Chabrier.

And for this week鈥檚 Choral Reflection, Sarah鈥檚 choice is Sir James MacMillan鈥檚 The Gallant Weaver, a setting of a love poem by Robert Burns that conjures the sounds of Scotland.

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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    3 Bavarian Dances, Op 27a (No 1)

    Conductor: James Judd. Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
    • Elgar: Orchestral Miniatures.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque No 1 in E major

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les f锚tes d'H茅b茅 (Act II: Air tendre)

    Lyricist: Antoine Gautier de Montdorge. Conductor: Marc Minkowski. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre.
    • Rameau: Une symphonie imaginaire.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 3.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)

    Conductor: Georg Solti. Orchestra: London Symphony Chorus.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne No 14 In F Sharp minor, No 2 Op 48

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Chopin: Nocturnes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 39 in E flat major, K 543 (3rd mvt, Menuetto)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Jenni Brandon

    Sea Quartet

    Performer: Ryan Zwahlen. Performer: Jennifer Stevenson. Performer: Michael Kreiner. Performer: Kanae Matsumoto.
    • Jenni Brandon Music.

  • Edward Gregson

    Cornet Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Richard Marshall. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • Doyen.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    贰蝉辫补帽补

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London.
    • Escales: French Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 101.

  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Ubi Caritas

    Performer: Owen Saldanha. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • Celestial Dawn.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Scherzo in C minor, WoO 2

    Performer: Leila Josefowicz. Performer: John Novacek.
    • Warner Classics International.

  • Anna Amalia of Prussia

    Flute Sonata in F major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Performer: Emmanuel Pahud.
    • The Flute King: Music from the Court of Frederick the Great.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Canonic Sonata No 1 in G major, Op 5

    Performer: Lucie Horsch. Performer: Rachel Podger.

  • Kristina Arakelyan

    Aurora Borealis

    Performer: Kristina Arakelyan. Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Naomi Woo.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Les Animaux Mod猫les, Suite (1st mvt, 'Le Petit jour' & 2nd mvt, 'Le lion amoureux')

    Conductor: Charles Dutoit. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France.
    • DECCA.

  • John Lennon

    Blackbird

    Composer: Paul McCartney. Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰. Lyricist: John Lennon. Lyricist: Paul McCartney. Music Arranger: S茅rgio Assad.
    • Mercury Classics.

  • Claude Debussy

    Beau soir, L. 6 (L. 84) (Arr. Heifetz for Violin and Piano)

    Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin. Lyricist: Paul Bourget. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
    • Secret Love Letters.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.

  • Imogen Holst

    On Westhall Hill

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Alice Farnham.
    • Discovering Imogen.
    • NMC.
    • 10.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G major

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Conductor: Ludovic Morlot. Orchestra: 成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.

  • Charles Gounod

    Ave Maria

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Songs from the Arc of Life.
    • Masterworks.
    • 1.

  • Omer Avital

    Ballad for Eli

    Performer: Avi Avital. Performer: Yonathan Avishai. Music Arranger: Avi Avital. Music Arranger: Yonathan Avishai. Music Arranger: Omer Klein. Singer: Omer Avital.
    • Avital Meets Avital.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Fugue No 5 in D major (24 Preludes and Fugues, Op 87)

    Performer: Yulianna Avdeeva.
    • Pentatone.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 55, 'Eroica' (3rd mvt, Scherzo)

    Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel. Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Rachel Laurin

    Symphony No 1 for Organ, Op 36 (Scherzo)

    Performer: Rachel Mahon.
    • Canadian Organ Music on the Organ of Coventry Cathedral.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 17.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Spem in alium. Vidi aquam.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Franz Liszt

    Orpheus (Sypmphonic Poem No 4, S 98)

    Conductor: Kurt Masur. Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.

Broadcast

  • Sun 13 Jul 2025 09:00
    成人快手 Radio 3