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Three hours of classical sparkle

Sarah Walker with the perfect playlist to accompany your Sunday morning, and a chance to reflect on another joyous season of the BBC Proms coming to a close.

This week, Sarah Walker's playlist drifts from an elegant dance by Tchaikovsky to triumphant Sibelius, and Schubert where he’s most at home: in song.

Arnold Bax’s Mater ora filium provides a moment of stillness in today’s Choral Reflection, and there’s a chance to hear Scriabin’s impassioned Piano Concerto in full. Also, Sarah celebrates International Chocolate Day in her Sunday Sequence, and on the morning after the night before, reflects on another joyous season of the BBC Proms coming to a close.

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Music Played

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Wedding-cake, Op 76

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Hyperion.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Five Novelettes, Op 15 (Alla spagnuola)

    Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
    • Les Vendredis.
    • Simax.
    • 11.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto in F major, RV 489 (1st mvt)

    • Berlin Classics.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Six Piano Pieces, Op 118 (No 5, Romance in F major)

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.
    • Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Six Piano Pieces Op. 118.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Edward Elgar

    La capricieuse, Op 17

    Orchestrator: Søren Barfoed. Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Venzago.
    • Elgar: Cello Concerto: Sol Gambetta.
    • RCA.
    • 7.

  • Bernhard Crusell

    Introduction and Variations on a Swedish Song

    Performer: Martin Fröst. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Roots.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite (Sinfonia)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Alexander Janiczek.
    • Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète & Pulcinella Suite.
    • Linn Records.
    • 11.

  • Arnold Bax

    Mater ora Filium

    Choir: The Carice Singers. Conductor: George Parris.
    • Delius & Bax: Choral Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 10.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia, Op 26

    Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No 3 in E major (Gavotte en rondeau)

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos.

  • Henriette Renié

    Danse des lutins (Dance of the Leprechauns)

    Performer: Judy Loman.
    • NAXOS.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Fra poco a me ricovero (Lucia di Lammermoor)

    Singer: Joseph Calleja. Orchestra: Munich Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Jesús López Cobos.
    • Warner.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G major, K525, 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Mozart: Night music: The English Concert/Manze.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.

  • Erik Satie

    Valse du chocolat aux amandes (Menus propos enfantines)

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • French Classical Piano.
    • Decca.
    • 242.

  • Rachel Portman

    Taste of Chocolate (Chocolat)

    Orchestra: Unnamed orchestra. Conductor: David Snell.
    • Chocolat - Music from the Miramax Motion Picture.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.

  • André Previn

    Chocolate Apricot

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: André Previn. Performer: Jim Hall. Performer: Red Mitchell. Performer: Shelly Manne.
    • Previn: A Different Kind of Blues/It's a Breeze.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 6, 'Pathetique' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
    • Onyx.

  • Joanna Marsh

    Going to Heaven!

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Going to Heaven!.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.

  • Isabella Leonarda

    Trio Sonata, Op 16 No 6

    Performer: Ewa Anna Augustynowicz. Ensemble: Ensemble Giardino Di Delizie.
    • Leonarda: Complete Trio Sonatas.
    • Brilliant Classics Licensing BV.
    • 7.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Gavotte (Holberg Suite)

    Orchestra: TrondheimSolistene. Conductor: Øyvind Gimse.
    • Trondheimsolistene - In Folk Style.
    • 2L.
    • 3.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    Piano Concerto, Op 20

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic.
    • Alexander Scriabin: Symphony No. 2, Op. 29 & Piano Concerto, Op. 20.
    • Lawo Classics.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Maurice Ravel: Ma Mère L’oye; Boléro; Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales; Pavane Pou.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor, Op 10 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Azica Records.

  • Frank Bridge

    When most I wink

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Carolyn Sampson.
    • BIS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, H VIIe 1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Håkan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Hardenberger/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 11.

  • Aoife Ní Bhriain

    Wings

    Composer: Catrin Finch.
    • Double You.
    • ARC Music Productions International Ltd.
    • 4.

  • Amy Beach

    Masked Ball, Op 22

    Orchestra: Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Hector Valdivia.
    • CENTAUR.

Broadcast

  • Sun 13 Sep 202609:00
    BBC Radio 3