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Hymns on Sunday, 6 July 2025

6 Jul 2025

Award-winning English composer Howard Goodall is responsible for the music to many well-known TV series, including Mr Bean, The Vicar of Dibley and Blackadder. In this week's programme, you can hear his setting of Charles Wesley’s hymn Love Divine, All Loves ExcellingAudio

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Wednesday 09 July

6:00 AM. Mornings

with Andrew Clark

Villa-Lobos, Heitor: Choros No 1 - Iwan Tanzil (guitar) (Kretzberg Records )

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Piano Concerto No 27 in Bb K595 (3) - Mitsuko Uchida (pno), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Philips 420 951)

Gershwin, George arr Milone: It ain't necessarily so, from Porgy & Bess - 48 violas from ASMF, BBC SO, London Phil, ENO Orch/Geoffrey Simon (Cala CACD 0106)

ANON arr Stian Aareskjold: Cachua Serranita - Norwegian Wind Ensemble, Nordic Voices/Mark Bennett (LAWO [LWC1061])

Coates, Eric: The Merrymakers, Overture - New Philharmonia/Adrian Boult (LYRITA SRCD 246)

Hoffstetter, Roman attr Haydn: Serenade, from String Quartet in F Op 3/5 - Orpheus CO (DG 437 782)

Richardson, Alan: Roundelay - Murray Khouri (cl), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (Continuum CCD 1014)

Bach, Johann Sebastian: Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F BWV1047 (1) - Gabriele Cassone (natural tpt), Duilio Galfetti (vln), Maurice Steger (recorder), Emiliano Rodolfi (ob), I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis (Arts 47715)

Boccherini, Luigi: Symphony in C G505 (2) - German Chamber Academy, Neuss/Johannes Goritzki (CPO 999 172)

7.00

Bizet, Georges: Les Toréadors. Allegro giocoso, from Carmen Suite No 1 [Live] - Vienna Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Sony Classics 196588189692)

Verdi, Giuseppe: Ella mi fu rapita, from Rigoletto - Pene Pati (tenor), Bordeaux-Aquitaine National Orch, Chorus of the National Opera of Bordeaux (Warner Ckassucs 9029631497)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Waltz of the Flowers (Arr. Campbell for Violin & Orchestra), from The Nutcracker - Christian Li (violin), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Jascha von der Goltz (Decca )

Braddock, Nigel: Unfolding - Nigel Braddock (p) (Monkey Records )

Traditional: Greensleeves - Joel Frederiksen (bass), ensemble (Harmonia mundi FF03)

Byrd, William: Pavan and Galliard a6 - Phantasm (Linn CKD372)

Haydn, Franz Joseph: Cello Concerto in D HobVIIb/4 (3) - Gautier Capuçon (cello), Mahler CO/Daniel Harding (Virgin 5 45560)

Menotti, Gian Carlo: Mother's Aria "I shall find for you shells and stars", from The Consul - Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano), London Metropolitan Ensemble (Sony SK64498)

Vivaldi, Antonio: Bassoon Concerto in G, RV 493, I Allegro non troppo - Sophie Dervaux (bassoon), La Folia Barockorchester (Berlin Classics )

Granados, Enrique: Spanish Dances Op 37 Book 4 (3) - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (Decca 414 557)

Crusell, Berhard: Clarinet Concerto No 1 in Eb Op 1 (3) - Emma Johnson (cl), Royal Phil/Günther Herbig (ASV CD DCA 763)

8.00

Mendelssohn, Felix: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56, Scottish (2) - San Francisco SO/Herbert Blomstedt (Decca 433 811)

Maxwell Davies, Peter: Farewell to Stromness - Rory Macdonald (violin), Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Linn )

Queen Sālote Tupou III arr Thomas Goss: Nepituno - Lesa Fomai, Signature Choir/Brent Stewart (RNZ )

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Suite No 4 in G Op 61, Mozartiana (2) - Scottish CO/José Serebrier (ASV CD DCA 719)

Shostakovich, Dmitri arr Atovmyan: Waltz, from The Gadfly - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Paul Meyer (cl), Eric Le Sage (pno) (EMI 5 57948)

Chopin, Frédéric: Mazurkas Op 59 (2) - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ UA26)

ANON: Tourdion: Quand je bois du vin - La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AV9853)

Traditional: Captain Campbell's March - Maxwell Quartet (Linn )

Bizet, Georges: Flower song, from Carmen - Jonas Kaufmann (ten), Prague Phil/Marco Armiliato (Decca 478 6029)

Vivaldi, Antonio: Recorder Concerto in F RV442 (1) Allegro non molto - Tabea Debus (recorder), La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler (vln/dir) (Signum SIGCD918)

Zayed, Christine: Avant que je ne photographie les oiseaux - Christine Zayed (qanûn), Sylvain Barou (flute) (Modulor )

9.00

Korngold, Erich Wolfgang: Violin Concerto in D, Op 35, II Romance - Liya Petrova (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Duncan Ward (Mirare )

Mendelssohn, Felix: Piano Sonata in E Op 6 (1) - Murray Perahia (pno) (CBS MK 37838)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Adagio, from Serenade No 10 in Bb K361, Gran Partita (3) - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 412 726)

Whitacre, Eric: Lux aurumque - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA67543)

Rota, Nino: Sonata for flute & harp - Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Anneleen Lenaerts (harp) (Warner Classics 9029551471)

Lalo, Édouard: Symphonie espagnole (5) - Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), French National Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa (EMI CDC 7 47318)

Franck, César arr Cullen: Panis angelicus, from Mass for three voices - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/James Judd (Philips 462 588)

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