Three hours of classical sparkle

Available for 27 days

This week, Sarah Walker’s playlist takes in gardens, forests and wide open landscapes, with music inspired by the natural world and the changing seasons. There’s French elegance from Mel Bonis, Beethoven’s much-loved Pastoral Symphony, and Percy Grainger’s irrepressible Country Gardens. Sarah also heads to Renaissance Italy for this week’s Choral Reflection, with a motet by Palestrina sung by one of the UK’s most revered choral ensembles, The Tallis Scholars. Elsewhere, there’s sunny Mozart with his Piano Concerto No. 23, while Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee buzzes into view ahead of the morning’s centrepiece: Tchaikovsky’s richly melodic ‘Little Russian’ Symphony. Plus, Sibelius ventures deep into the shadowy world of Finnish legend with music from the Lemminkäinen Suite. A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3.