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Easter: A seasonal journey. Sarah Walker live from Pembrokeshire

For Easter Sunday, Sarah Walker is at St Non's Chapel in Pembrokeshire, just a few metres from the sea, with a programme exploring music, landscape, and spiritual pilgrimage.

For this bright Easter Sunday morning, Sarah Walker is broadcasting live from the beautifully atmospheric surroundings of St Non's Chapel in Pembrokeshire - said to be the 6th-century birthplace of the patron saint of Wales, St David - and just a few metres from the sea.

Sarah will be joined by special guests - harpist Mared Pugh-Evans, the current official harpist to His Majesty the King, and Welsh folk duo Filkin's Drift - for a programme exploring music, landscape, and spiritual pilgrimage. Sarah will also visit the stunning Pembrokeshire coast path, marvel at the 12th Century Cathedral of St David's and consult a local expert about the birds who nest in the eaves of St Non's.

Plus a range of glorious music for this Easter Sunday, celebrating the season, the Saints and the landscape around St Non's.

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Sun 20 Apr 2025 09:00

Music Played

  • Alun Hoddinott

    Quodlibet on Welsh Nursery Tunes (1st mvt)

    Performer: Kevin Bowyer. Ensemble: Fine Arts Brass Ensemble.
    • Nimbus.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Exsultate, jubilate, K 165 (No 1)

    Performer: Daniel Bard. Singer: Franco Fagioli. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel.
    • Anime Immortali.
    • Pentatone.
    • 108.
  • Robert Docker

    The Spirit of Cambria

    Conductor: Barry Knight. Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra.
    • Naxos.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Suite for Harp (No 5, 'Hymn, St Denio')

    Performer: Mared Pugh-Evans (harp).
  • Pietro Mascagni

    Intermezzo (Cavalleria rusticana)

    Conductor: Georges Pr锚tre. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
  • Morfydd Owen

    4 Welsh Impressions (No 4, 'Beti Bwt')

    Performer: Zoe Smith.
    • Welsh Impressions.
    • T欧 Cerdd Records.
    • 4.
  • Meirion Wynn Jones

    O Ddewi Sanctaidd (O Holy David)

    Performer: Simon Pearce. Choir: St. Davids Cathedral Choir. Director: Daniel Cook.
    • Priory.
  • George Frideric Handel

    The Messiah, HWV 56, (Pt 1, Scene 4: 'Pastoral Symphony, Pifa')

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Richard Wagner

    Pilgrim's Chorus (Tannhauser)

    Conductor: Aleksandrs Vi募umanis. Orchestra: Latvian State Symphony Orchestra.
    • Wagner's Greatest Hits.
    • Denon.
    • 3.
  • 罢谤盲诲

    Adar M芒n y Mynydd (The Little Birds of the Mountain)

    Ensemble: Filkin's Drift.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op 36

    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • James MacMillan

    St Anne's Mass (No 3, 'Sanctus')

    Lyricist: Liturgical. Choir: Cappella Nova. Conductor: Alan Tavener.
    • MacMillan: Consecration.
    • Linn Records.
    • 11.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Surrexit Christus a 11 (Jesus Christ Is Risen)

    Choir: Giovanni Gabrieli. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • 111 Classics For Easter.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 24.
  • Amy Beach

    By the Still Waters, Op 114

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Summertime.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
    • 12.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Mer, L 109 (No 2, 'Play of the Waves')

    Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Easter Oratorio, BWV 249: Preis und Dank (Laud and Thanks)

    Singer: Yukari Nonoshita. Singer: Patrick Van Goethem. Singer: Jan Kobow. Singer: Chiyuki Urano. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
  • Trad.

    Dafydd y Garreg Wen (David of the White Rock)

    Performer: Mared Emyr Pugh-Evans.
  • Trad.

    Dafydd y Garreg Wen (David of the White Rock)

    Performer: Mared Emyr Pugh-Evans.
  • Grace Williams

    Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes

    Conductor: Andrew Penny. Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia.
    • Welsh Classical Favourites.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 1.
  • Caroline Shaw

    And the Swallow

    Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Ensemble: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Ensemble: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.
  • Franz Liszt

    12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, S 558 (No 12, 'Ave Maria')

    Composer: Franz Schubert. Performer: Ll欧r Williams.
    • Signum Records.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Messe Solennelle, H 20a (No 9, 'Resurrexit')

    Singer: Gilles Cachemaille. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
  • Seth Bye

    Touchpaper / The Gloucester Hornpipe

    Ensemble: Filkin's Drift.
  • Filkin's Drift

    Tudno's

    Ensemble: Filkin's Drift.
  • Arwel Hughes

    Oratorio for 3 Solo Voices, Chorus & Orchestra, 'Dewi Sant' (O dyred, Dewi, I Wlad goleuni)

    Lyricist: Aneirin Talfan Davies. Choir: Chorus of the 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes. Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Rubicon.
  • Grace Williams

    Hiraeth

    Performer: Mared Emyr Pugh-Evans.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz No 6 in D flat major, No 1 Op 64, 'Minute Waltz'

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Complete Waltzes.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Albert Ket猫lbey

    In a Monastery Garden

    Conductor: John Lanchbery. Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Morris Eddie Evans

    Pantyfedwen

    Performer: Simon Pearce. Choir: St. Davids Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Daniel Cook.
    • Priory.

Broadcast

  • Sun 20 Apr 2025 09:00