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Classical music to brighten your morning

Hannah French presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

3 hours

Last on

Wed 8 May 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Cantique de Jean Racine

    Choir: Accentus. Ensemble: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Naive.
  • Geoffrey Bush

    Consort Music

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Naxos.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Opachi boschetti BuxWV.121 (Gigue)

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
    • CHALLENGE CLASSICS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Art of Fugue, BWV.1080 (Contrapunctus XIV)

    Performer: Zhu Xiao-Mei.
    • ACCENTUS.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    3 Mazurkas Op.59 (no.2 in A flat major)

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • DG.
  • Salamone Rossi

    Hashirim asher lish'lomo - Lamnatseah 'al hagitit

    Choir: Profeti della Quinta.
    • PAN.
  • Isidoro Rossi

    Primo indirizzo artistico (II and III)

    Ensemble: Adami Clarinet Quartet.
    • Rare Italian Clarinet Chamber Music of the 19th Century.
    • Centaur.
    • 12-13.
  • Max Reger

    'Das Sternlein' (no. 2 from Sechs ausgew盲hlte Volkslieder, WoO VI/10)

    Choir: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • Melancholy: Max Regar Vocal Works.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.
  • Florence Price

    Suite No.1 for Organ (IV. Toccato)

    Performer: Alexander Ffinch.
    • Parallels.
    • Divine Art.
    • 5.
  • C茅sar Franck

    Violin Sonata in A major, FWV 8 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Erato.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No.6

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Brahms - Symphony No.2, etc..
    • BIS.
    • 015.
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Danza for piano, Op 33

    Performer: Philip Martin.
    • Gottschalk Piano Music - Philip Martin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Edmar Fenicio

    Choro Melanc贸lico

    Ensemble: Grupo Nosso Choro.
    • Primeira Classe.
    • Kuarup Music.
    • 9.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Quartet in G major Op.77 No.1; 1st movement; Allegro moderato

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Choir: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Bach - Motets.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd,Naxos Music UK Ltd.
    • 17.
  • Mary Lou Williams

    Walkin' and Swingin'

    Performer: Mary Lou Williams.
    • ASV.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in C minor Op.1 No.3; 4th mvt - Finale (prestissimo)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.
    • Beethoven for 3 Vol. 2.
    • SONY.
    • 9.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Der sad en fisker sa tankefuld

    Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Michael Bojesen.
    • DACAPO.
  • George Gershwin

    Variations on I got rhythm

    Performer: Lincoln Mayorga. Ensemble: Harmonie Ensemble New York. Conductor: Steven Richman.
    • Gershwin by Grofe: Harmonie Ensemble, New York.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo all turca arr for brass

    Music Arranger: Arthur Frackenpohl. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • Best of The Canadian Brass.
    • CBS.
    • 9.
  • George Enescu

    Romanian rhapsody no. 1 in A major Op.11`1

    Orchestra: MDR Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Kristjan J盲rvi.
    • The Kristjan J盲rvi Sound Project - Balkan Fever.
    • Naive.
    • 1.
  • Traditional Romanian

    Doina and Hora

    Performer: Tcha Limberger. Performer: Janos Dani. Performer: Vilmos Csik貌s. Performer: Gyula Cs铆k. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIAVOX.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Soeur Monique (Pi猫ces de clavecin, Ordre no.18)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Couperin: Keyboard Music 1: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio Sonata in G major, HWV.384

    Ensemble: Convivium.
    • Handel, Trio Sonatas for Oboe and Violin: Convivium.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat major D.899 no.4

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonatas D.840, 850 & 894, Impromptus D.899: Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.
  • William Walton

    'Spitfire' Prelude and Fugue

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Les chemins de l'amour

    Singer: Felicity Lott. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Poulenc: Voyage a Paris: Felicity Lott/Graham Johnson.
    • Helios.
    • 30.
  • Carl Stamitz

    Clarinet Concerto No. 8 in B Flat Major: III. Rondeau

    Orchestra: Kurpf盲lzisches Kammerorchester. Conductor: Paul Meyer.
    • Carl Stamitz: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1, 6 & 8.
    • CPO.
    • 303.

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