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Perk up New Year morning with classical music

Join Hannah for Breakfast, welcoming in the New Year with listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

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New Year's Day 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran partita": III. Adagio

    Performer: Mark Simpson. Performer: Fraser Langton. Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Emma Fielding. Performer: Amy Harman. Performer: Dom Tyler. Performer: Angela Barnes. Performer: David Stark. Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Performer: James Pillai. Performer: Fabian van de Geest.
    • Mark Simpson: Geysir - Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 203.
  • Christopher Simpson

    The Monthes: January

    Performer: Sophie Watillon. Performer: Friederike Heumann. Performer: Brian Franklin. Performer: Matthias Spaeter. Performer: Luca Guglielmi.
    • Simpson: The Seasons, The Monthes & other divisions of Time - I.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    脌 Chloris

    Performer: Th茅otime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Tanguy de Williencourt.
    • A concert at the time of Proust.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christmas Oratorio, Part 4: Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben (Opening Chorus)

    Choir: Radio Svizzera Choir. Ensemble: I Barocchisti. Conductor: Diego Fasolis.
    • ARTS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christmas Oratorio, Part 4: Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben (extracts)

    Singer: Charles Daniels. Choir: Radio Svizzera Choir. Ensemble: I Barocchisti. Conductor: Diego Fasolis.
    • ARTS.
  • Edward Elgar

    La capricieuse, Op.17

    Music Arranger: Paul Cassidy. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Petits-fours Favourite Encores: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • John Dowland

    Resolution

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Impromptu no.3 in A flat major Op.34

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Faure - The Complete Music for Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Anthony Holborne

    The New-Yeres Gift

    • Renaissance and Baroque Brass Masterpieces.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 23.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 5 No 7

    Performer: Lina Tur Bonet. Ensemble: Musica Alchemica.
    • PAN CLASSICS.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Flight of the Bumblebee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The Best of The Academy.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 14.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude in A minor

    Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva.
    • Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87: Tatiana Nicolayeva.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Sarah Vaughan & Hal Mooney & His Orchestra

    My Ship

    • The Complete Sarah Vaughan On Mercury (Vol.2).
    • Verve Reissues.
    • 15.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Emperor Waltz

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Performer: Wolfgang Schulz. Performer: Ernst Ottensamer. Performer: Heinz Medjimorec. Ensemble: Alban Berg Quartett.
    • J. Strauss II: Waltzes.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Peace on earth

    Performer: D贸nal McCann. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Singer: George Hill. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Errollyn Wallen: Peace on Earth.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 1.
  • Traditional Shetland

    Da Day Dawn

    Performer: Chris Stout. Performer: Catriona McKay.
    • GREENTRAX.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92

    Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • William Byrd

    O God that guides the cheerful sun

    Singer: Robin Blaze. Ensemble: Concordia.
    • Consort Songs.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • Claude Debussy

    Feux d'artifice

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Debussy Preludes - Steven Osborne.
    • HYPERION.
    • 24.
  • Henry Purcell

    I Resolve Against Cringing and Whining

    Performer: Fred Jacobs. Singer: Maarten Koningsberger.
    • Henry Purcell Solo Songs.
    • Quintone.
    • 4.
  • Fats Waller

    Ain't Misbehavin'

    Composer: Harry Brooks. Composer: Andy Razaf. Performer: Fats Waller.
    • Stormy Weather (The Soundtrack Factory).
    • Disconforme.
    • 8.
  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Prelude (Hary Janos Suite Op.35a)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Philips.
  • Caroline Shaw

    So Quietly

    Choir: iSing Silicon Valley Choir.
    • So Quietly.
    • Innova.
    • 1.
  • Gustav Holst

    Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (The Planets)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Rhythm and Colours.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Furioso-Polka quasi Galopp

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic. Performer: Riccardo Muti.
    • New Year's Concert 2021.
    • Sony.
  • Charles Ives

    Set of Five Take-Offs: V. Bad Resolutions and Good One

    • The Unknown Ives.
    • NWCRI.
    • 15.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet Op.20`3 in G minor (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • The 'Sun' Quartets Op. 20.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.

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