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Your classical alarm call

Hannah French presents Radio 3鈥檚 classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning. Winner of Best Audio Arts and Music Programme (Voice of the Listener and Viewer Awards).

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3 hours

Last on

Thu 6 Jun 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Lilian Elkington

    Out of the Mist

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Elgar - The Spirit of England etc..
    • Dutton Laboratories.
    • 7.
  • Alis Huws

    Suo Gan (Soliloquies on Welsh Folk Songs No.2)

    Performer: Alis Huws.
    • DECCA.
  • Joseph Parry

    Myfanwy

    Choir: Morriston Orpheus Choir. Director: Alwyn Humphreys.
    • SAIN.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Quartet concertant in B flat major Op.15 No.6 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet.
    • Saint-Georges: 6 Quartetto concertans.
    • Naxos.
    • 601.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • Piano Masterworks The World's Favourite Piano Classics.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Performer: Phillip McCann. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • The World's Most Beautiful Melodies.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mass in C minor, K 427 (Great) - Laudamus te

    Singer: Anna Dennis. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Mozart: Mass in C Minor - C.P.E. Bach: Heilig ist Gott.
    • Linn Records.
    • 3.
  • Margaret Bonds

    Spiritual Suite: iii. Troubled Water

    Performer: William Chapman Nyaho.
    • Senku - Piano Music by Composers of African Descent, Vol. 1.
    • MSR Classics.
    • 9.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont, Op.84 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: George Szell.
    • ORFEO.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Adagio in G minor

    Music Arranger: Remo Giazotto. Ensemble: Consort of London. Director: Robert Clark.
    • COLLINS CLASSICS.
  • Lennox Berkeley

    Paysage

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Lennox and Michael Berkeley: Piano Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • Bernhard Crusell

    Clarinet Quartet No 3 in D major, Op 7 (Finale)

    Performer: Eric Hoeprich. Ensemble: London Haydn Quartet.
    • GLOSSA.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Recorder Sonata in C major, HWV365

    Performer: Erik Bosgraaf. Performer: Francesco Corti.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    A. Coleridge-Taylor: Sussex Landscape, Op. 27: III. Largo - Maestoso

    Conductor: Roderick Cox. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.
  • Emily Hall

    Eternity

    Singer: Olivia Chaney.
    • bigo & twigetti.
  • Anthony Collins

    Louis XV Silhouettes: At Versailles; At the Tuileries (Sicilienne & Passacaille)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Dutton.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in G major H.16.39 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Unter Donner und Blitz, Op. 324

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • New Year's Concert 2018.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 17.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Crisantemi

    Ensemble: Puccini Quartet.
    • Puccini,Catalani: String Music: Puccini Quartet.
    • ASV.
    • 5.
  • Albert E Kelly

    Arromanches

    Performer: Central Band of the Royal British Legion. Conductor: Captain David Cole.
    • Marching as to War.
    • Clovelly Recordings.
    • 11.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in B major, Op 72 No 1

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Dvorak: Slavonic Dances etc.: RPO/Detroit SO/Dorati.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Trad.

    I'm a Rover

    Music Arranger: Siobhan Miller. Music Arranger: Euan Burton. Performer: Siobhan Miller. Performer: Innes White. Performer: Tom Gibbs.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto, Op.8 No.2 'Summer' (The Four Seasons)

    Orchestra: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • AVIE.
  • Helena Munktell

    Le lac de Siljan ('Davlsvit' Suite Dalecarlienne)

    Orchestra: G盲vle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Tobias Ringborg.
    • Sterling.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O viridissima Virga, Ave

    Ensemble: Sequentia. Director: Barbara Thornton.
    • Canticles of Ecstasy.
    • deutsche harmonia mundi.
    • 011.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Quartet in B flat, Op.41 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Schubert Ensemble.
    • Saint-Saens/Chausson: Piano Quartets - Schubert Ensemble.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

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