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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 having some friends over for a coffee, or getting stuck into some DIY.

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

Today, there鈥檚 gentle guitar in music by Spanish composer Federico Moreno Torroba, plaintive harmonic suspensions in Pergolesi鈥檚 Stabat Mater, and glittering textures in a piano trio by Fanny Mendelssohn.

There are also some moments of stillness including an unaccompanied Medieval chant by Hildegard of Bingen, and soaring energy with Camille Saint-Sa毛ns鈥檚 Havanaise.

Plus, Sibelius鈥檚 鈥榗onfession of the soul鈥�...

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Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Mother Goose Suite (5th mvt, 'The Fairy Garden)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Federico Moreno Torroba

    Piezas Caracter铆sticas (No 3, 'Melod铆a')

    Performer: Pietro Locatto.
    • Stradivarius.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 5 in A major, Hob I:5 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Fey.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.

  • Agathe Backer-Gr酶ndahl

    10 Fantasistykker, Op 36 (No 8, 'Aftenvind')

    Performer: Anne Le Bozec.
    • Gr酶ndahl: 10 Fantasistykker, Op. 36.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
    • 8.

  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat Mater (1st mvt, 'Stabat Mater')

    Lyricist: Jacopone da Todi. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • The Very Best of Emma Kirkby.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 3.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet No 13 in A minor, D 804, 'Rosamunde' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Melos Quartett.
    • Schubert: The String Quartets.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 43.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Pizzicato Polka

    Composer: Josef Strauss. Conductor: Karl B枚hm. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Johann Strauss: Kaiserwalzer; Emperor Waltz; Walzer und Polkas.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 6.

  • 脫lafur Arnalds

    Nyepi (Day of Silence)

    Performer: Viktor Orri 脕rnason. Performer: Bj枚rk 脫skarsd贸ttir. Performer: 脫lafur Arnalds.
    • UNIVERSAL.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Les Biches Suite, FP 36b (1st mvt, 'Rondeau')

    Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud. Orchestra: RT脡 National Symphony Orchestra.
    • Poulenc: Les biches Suite, Les animaux mod猫les Suite & Sinfonietta.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Heinrich Isaac

    Tota pulchra es (2nd mvt, 'Flores Apparuerunt')

    Conductor: Peter Phillips. Ensemble: Tallis Scholars.
    • Gimell.

  • George Enescu

    颁辞苍肠别谤迟蝉迟眉肠办

    Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Andrei Banciu.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Danse macabre, Op 40

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Performer: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Saint-Sa毛ns: Symphonic Poems - Le Carnaval des animaux - L'Assassinat du duc de.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    The Lark (L'Alouette)

    Music Arranger: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev. Performer: Philip Fowke.
    • Virtuoso Transcriptions for Piano.
    • CRD Records.
    • 6.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 1 in E minor Op 39 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • BPHR 150071.
    • BPHR.
    • 2.

  • Kassiani

    Using the Apostate Tyrant as His Tool

    Music Arranger: Diane Touliatos. Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • Early Music.
    • Nonesuch/Warner Records.
    • 11.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenata Notturna K 239 (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Andrew Watkinson. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia.
    • Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
    • Sony Music Entertainment.
    • 14.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    The Sea Shell

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, London. Conductor: Joseph Fort.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Partsongs.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 8.

  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite (5th mvt, 'Pied-en- l'air')

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Fantasia on Greensleeves.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 11.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    L'Elisir d'amore (Act 2: 'Prendi, per me sei libero')

    Singer: Maria Callas. Conductor: Nicola Rescigno. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Soci茅t茅 des Concerts du Conservatoire.
    • Maria Callas - 100 Best Classics.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.

  • Nico Muhly

    Etude 1

    Performer: Nadia Sirota.
    • NEW AMSTERDAM.

  • Johann Joseph Vilsmayr

    Artificiosus Concentus pro Camera for solo violin (No 10, 'Aria variata')

    Performer: Rachel Podger.
    • Tutta sola.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 12.

  • Thomas Weelkes

    26 Ayeres or Phantasticke Spirites (No 25, 'The Nightingale')

    Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • Madrigals & Songs From The Renaissance.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 145.

  • Anon.

    Cachua

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Ensemble: La Capella Reial de Catalunya.
    • Villancicos Danzas Criollas 1550-1750.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 10.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O ignis spiritus (O fire of the spirit)

    Performer: Grace Davidson.
    • Sacred Chants.
    • Signum Records.
    • 3.

  • Frederick Delius

    A Song Before Sunrise

    Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Best of British, Vol. 2.
    • Crimson.
    • 4.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Celeste Aida (Aida)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Warner.

  • Paul Taffanel

    Wind Quintet in G minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Wiener Bl盲sersolisten.
    • Taffanel: Wind Quintet; Fran莽aix: Wind Quintet (New Vienna Octet; Vienna Wind So.
    • Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Gloria in D major, RV 589 (1st mvt, 'Gloria in excelsis Deo')

    Conductor: Stephen Cleobury. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge.
    • Vivaldi: Gloria, RV 589 - Dixit Dominus, RV 594 & Magnificat, RV 610.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • John Adams

    Harmonielehre (Meister Eckhardt and Quackie)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Adams: Harmonielehre.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Oberon (Overture)

    Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • ELOQUENCE.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio in D minor, Op 11 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio Chausson.
    • Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn.
    • Mirare.
    • 4.

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