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A refreshing morning soundtrack

Sarah Walker with a glittering three-hour playlist of classical music for your Sunday morning, taking us from the waterways of the world to an earthy dance by Haydn.

Sarah Walker introduces a glittering and varied Sunday mix. We'll meet an unfortunate traveller in music by Imogen Holst, dance a Gypsy Rondo with Haydn and be lulled by one of Ravel's most endearing chamber works.

And, with today being World Rivers Day, Sarah's Sunday Sequence takes us across the globe to celebrate the waterways of the world.

Also, Sarah looks back at the swashbuckling events of "Where the Light Sings" yesterday on Radio 3, paying her own homage to Britain's maritime traditions with, among other things, the epic conclusion of Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony, and a Choral Reflection in a seafaring mood...

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Music Played

  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op 33a (No 2, 'Sunday Morning')

    Conductor: Libor Pešek. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Takuro Iga

    Sail in a morning calm on the Sea (Triptyque for clarinet and piano: 1st mvt)

    Performer: Kazuki Watanabe. Performer: Mayuko Ohno.
    • Triptyque.
    • CAFUA.
    • 6.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ Sonata no.4 BWV.528 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • César Franck

    Symphony in D minor (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Léo Delibes

    The Maids of Cadiz

    Performer: Phillip McCann. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • World's Most Beautiful Melodies, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 109.

  • Emilie Mayer

    Overture No 3 in C major

    Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens. Orchestra: Kolner Akademie.
    • CPO.

  • Trad.

    Light from the Lighthouse

    Ensemble: Boscastle Buoys.
    • Boscastle Buoys.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Pirates of Penzance (Overture)

    Conductor: Isidore Godfrey. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Decca.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction et Allegro

    Performer: Valérie Milot. Conductor: Alain Trudel. Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Trois‐Rivières.
    • Atma Classique.

  • William Byrd

    Iustorum animae

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Renaissance - Music for Inner Peace.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 11.

  • Johann Strauss II

    The Blue Danube

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • RCA Records Label.

  • Irving Berlin

    Ol' Man River

    Composer: Jerome Kern. Singer: Judy Garland.
    • Savoy.

  • Ferde Grofé

    Mississippi Suite, 'A Journey in Tones' (1st mvt, 'Father of Waters')

    Conductor: André Kostelanetz. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Jesu, meines Lebens Leben (1st & 2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Olivier Fortin. Ensemble: Ensemble Masques.
    • Alpha Classics.

  • François‐Joseph Gossec

    Tambourin

    Performer: James Galway. Music Arranger: Charles Gerhardt. Conductor: Charles Gerhardt. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • RCA Red Seal.

  • Imogen Holst

    The Unfortunate Traveller (3rd mvt, Interlude)

    Conductor: Douglas Bostock. Orchestra: South-West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim.
    • CPO.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz No 7 in C sharp minor, Op 64

    Performer: Eric Lu.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    A Sea Symphony (4th mvt, 'The Explorers')

    Singer: Katherine Broderick. Singer: Roderick Williams. Ensemble: Halle. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Halle Concerts Society.

  • George Gershwin

    It Ain't Necessarily So (Porgy and Bess Suite)

    Ensemble: Arcis Saxophon Quartett.
    • Rasch.
    • Genuin.
    • 204.

  • Olivia Belli

    Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra, 'Daimon' (3rd mvt, 'The Return')

    Performer: Olivia Belli. Conductor: John Metcalfe. Orchestra: Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Trad.

    Tra bo dŵr y môr yn hallt

    Performer: Mari Mathias.

  • Heino Kaski

    Night by the Sea, Op. 34 No. 1

    Performer: Izumi Tateno.
    • Heino Kaski: Night by the Sea.
    • Fazer Records/Finlandia.
    • 14.

  • Percy Grainger

    Irish Tune From County Derry (Londonderry Air)

    Performer: Moye Chen.
    • Four Worlds.
    • Universal Music Australia.
    • 11.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 82 in C Major, "The Bear" (4th mvt. Finale. Vivace Assai)

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 11: Au goût parisien.
    • Alpha.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Last Sunday 09:00
    BBC Radio 3