For a Sunday Morning

• Booklet languages: English
• Time: 65:39
• Release Date: 2002

Review

Another volume in Decca's lifestyle classical music series, For a Sunday Morning collects lively yet relaxing compositions, including Grieg's "Morning Mood," Bach's "Sleepers, Awake," and Johann Strauss II's "Morning Newspapers." Debussy's "Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun" and "En Bateau" lend a languid elegance to the album, while Lord Benjamin Britten's "Sunday Morning by the Beach" has a bustling, cosmopolitan feel that reflects a completely different -- but just as refreshing -- Sunday morning. Dvorák's "Waltz From Serenade for Strings" and Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Seventeen Come Sunday From English Folk Suite" add a pastoral feel to the album that gives it diversity without losing focus. Gabriel Fauré's "Sicilienne From Pelléas et Mélisande" and Holst's "Finale (The Dargason) From St Paul's Suite" are two of the other standout pieces from this collection. While the gentle, almost lulling feel of For a Sunday Morning is almost as appropriate for falling asleep as waking up, the album is pleasant at any time of day and for almost any occasion. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide

Performances

Composer	Title	Time
Edvard Grieg	Peer Gynt Suite for orchestra (or piano or piano, 4 hands) No. 1, Op. 46 (Morning Mood)	4:21
Antonin Dvorák	Serenade for string orchestra in E major, B. 52 (Op. 22) (Waltz)	6:17
Gabriel Fauré	Pavane, for orchestra & chorus ad lib in F sharp minor, Op. 50	5:43
Johann Sebastian Bach	Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 (Air)	5:13
Gustav Holst	St. Paul's Suite, for strings, Op. 29/2, H. 118 (Finale "The Dargason")	3:36
Claude Debussy	Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun), for orchestra, L. 86	8:27
Gabriel Fauré	Pelléas et Mélisande, incidental music and suite for orchestra, Op. 80 (Sicilienne)	3:56
Johann Sebastian Bach	Cantata No. 140, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme," BWV 140 (BC A166) (Sleepers, Awake)	5:28
Claude Debussy	Petite suite (4), for piano, 4 hands (or orchestra), L. 65 (En Bateau (Orchestra version))	3:46
Edvard Grieg	Peer Gynt Suite for orchestra (or piano or piano, 4 hands) No. 1, Op. 46 (Anitra's Dance)	3:27
Benjamin Britten	Peter Grimes, opera, Op. 33 (Sunday Morning By The Beach)	2:39
Ralph Vaughan Williams	English Folk Song Suite, for orchestra (orchestrated by G. Jacob) (March: Seventeen Come Sunday)	3:21
Johann Strauss II	Morgenblätter (Morning Papers), waltz for orchestra, Op. 279 (RV 279)	9:25