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The perfect musical accompaniment to your morning

Sarah Walker with a sparkling playlist for your Sunday morning, with classical music from across the globe.

Sarah Walker with a sparkling playlist for your morning, which whisks us from the busy streets of Edwardian London... to the sun swept plains of Spain... to a Japanese dreamland - courtesy of composer Takashi Yoshimatsu.

For this week’s Choral Reflection, Sarah's continues to span the globe with music by the Norwegian composer Kim Andre Arnesen, and there's another intriguing set of pieces in today's Sunday Sequence.

Plus a chance to hear a stunning recording of Kodaly's exotic Hary Janos Suite in full...

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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Rêverie, CD 76

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in E flat

    Orchestra: Arte dei Suonatori. Conductor: Marcin Świątkiewicz.
    • BIS Records.

  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Dream Colored Mobile II, Op. 58a

    Performer: Kyoko Tabe. Performer: Joe Houghton. Performer: Kate Wilson. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • Chandos.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Spring Song (Songs Without Words, Book 5, Op 62: No 6)

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Gunars Upatnieks. Ensemble: Schumann Quartett.
    • Blue Hour: Mendelssohn Edition.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Tanzlied des Pierrot (from Die tote Stadt)

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster. Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cockaigne Overture, Op 40

    Conductor: Vasily Petrenko. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • ONYX.

  • Kim André Arnesen

    Even when he is silent

    Choir: Chamber Choir of London. Conductor: Dominic Ellis-Peckham.

  • Mel Bonis

    Suite en forme de valses, Op 35/3 (1st mvt, 'Ballabile')

    Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    Prelude No 3 in D flat 7, Op 17

    Performer: Maria Lettberg.
    • Capriccio.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets, Op 32 (No 6, 'Uranus, the Magician')

    Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • LSO Live.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Alan Hovhaness

    And God Created Great Whales, Op 229 No 1

    Conductor: Gerard Schwarz. Orchestra: Seattle Symphony.
    • Delos.

  • Moby

    God Moving Over the Face of the Waters (Reprise Version)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Conductor: Joseph Trapanese. Orchestra: Budapest Art Orchestra.
    • Reprise.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.

  • Christopher Gunning

    When the Whales Came

    Singer: Nicole Tibbels. Conductor: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • The Film and TV Music of Christopher Gunning.
    • Chandos.
    • 109.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio No 39 in G, 'Gypsy' (3rd mvt, Rondo)

    Ensemble: Trio Wanderer.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Emilie Mayer

    Symphony No 1 in C minor (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Bernhard Forck. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • harmonia mundi.

  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat Mater

    Lyricist: Jacopone da Todi. Singer: Danielle de Niese. Singer: Andreas Scholl. Conductor: Harry Bicket. Orchestra: The English Concert.
    • Beauty of the Baroque.
    • Decca.
    • 11.

  • Enrique Granados

    Danzas españolas, Op 37 (No 5, 'Andaluza')

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Music Arranger: Michael Lewin.
    • Mediterráneo.
    • DG.
    • 16.

  • Zoltán Kodály

    Háry János Suite

    Performer: Laurence Kaptain. Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
    • Chandos.

  • Franz Liszt

    La Campanella (6 Grandes etudes de Paganini S.141)

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Antonio Salieri

    Sinfonia in D, 'La Veneziana'

    Ensemble: Budapest Strings.
    • Capriccio.

  • Elsa Jacqueline Barraine

    Nocturne

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Theme Varie.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 16.

  • Count Basie

    Blue and Sentimental

    Composer: Mack David. Composer: Jerry Livingston. Performer: Oscar Peterson.
    • Oscar Peterson Plays Count Basie.
    • Verve Reissues.
    • 7.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Sarabande (Suite No 4 in D minor, HWV 437)

    Orchestrator: Laurence Equilbey. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    La Cenerentola (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Improvisation No 8 in A minor

    Performer: Lucille Chung.
    • Stephen Hough's French Album.
    • hyperion.
    • 012.

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