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Friday - Hannah's classical mix

Hannah French presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests, the Friday poem and including Bach Before Seven in Berlin: musical postcards from locations in the city that were important to the composer.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 2 Dec 2022 06:30

Music Played

  • Robert de Vis茅e

    Sarabande

    Performer: Toby Carr.
    • Battle Cry: She Speaks.
    • Delphian.
    • 14.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in E flat major, D 87 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Jubilee Quartet.
    • Rubicon.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance in F major, Op 50

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Orchestra: Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Beethoven: Violin concerto etc: Tetzlaff/Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich/Zinman.
    • Arte Nova Classics.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no. 6 in B flat major BWV.1051: 1st movement

    Orchestra: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • LINN RECORDS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mache dich, mein Herze (St Matthew Passion, BWV 244)

    Singer: St茅phane Degout. Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Shepherd Girl's Dance (The Mountain King)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Jean Mouton

    Nesciens Mater

    Choir: Brabant Ensemble. Director: Stephen Rice.
    • HYPERION.
  • Claude Debussy

    The Girl With the Flaxen Hair

    Performer: Isao Tomita.
    • RCA.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude (2 Pieces Op.2)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Rachmaninov / Franck - Cello sonatas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Polonaise in A flat major, Op 53, 'Heroic'

    Performer: Piotr Anderszewski.
    • Chopin: Ballades, Mazurkas, Polonaises.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.
  • Sarah Cattley

    Ivy, chief of trees

    Choir: Somerville College Choir, Oxford. Conductor: Will Dawes.
    • The Dawn of Grace.
    • Resonus.
    • 7.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Die Fledermaus (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bavarian State Orchestra. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Orchestra: Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 103.
  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    L'hiver qui nous tourmente (Isis)

    Singer: Sophie Daneman. Singer: Paul Agnew. Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • Les Divertissements de Versailles.
    • ERATO.
    • 10.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    Beech by Elizabeth Jennings, read by Kerry Elkins

  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Winter torments us so (鈥楢ir des trembleurs鈥 from Isis)

    Singer: Sophie Daneman. Singer: Paul Agnew. Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin (Act 3 Polonaise)

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in E major, Kk 135

    Performer: Ivo Pogorelich.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Anne Cawrse

    Imperfect Fourth (1st mvt)

    Performer: Aleksandr Tsiboulski. Performer: Cameron Hill. Performer: Helen Ayres. Performer: Martin Alexander. Performer: Ewen Bramble.
    • Advice to a Girl: Music by Anne Cawrse.
    • ABC Classic.
    • 6.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Spargi d'amaro pianto (Lucia di Lammermoor)

    Singer: Maria Callas. Singer: Tito Gobbi. Performer: Raffaele Ari茅. Choir: Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Orchestra: Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Conductor: Tullio Serafin.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Nicolas Dalayrac

    L'Eclipse totale - overture

    Orchestra: Compagnie Les Monts du Reuil. Director: H茅l猫ne Clerc-Murgier. Director: Pauline Warnier.
    • Amour.
    • Aparte.
    • 17.
  • Adolphus Hailstork

    Everytime I feel the Spirit (3 Spirituals, No 1)

    Orchestra: Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Adolphus Hailstork: An American Port of Call.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.
  • Paul McCartney

    Blackbird

    Performer: Hiromi.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.96 in D major H.1.96 'Miracle' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 1.
  • Benjamin Britten

    The trees they grow so high

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Britten: Canticle 1/Michelangelo sonnets etc: Johnson/Johnson.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • George Gershwin

    Girl Crazy (Broadway Overture)

    Music Arranger: Don Rose. Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue: Buffalo Philharmonic/Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS Masterworks.
    • 5.

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