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Friday - Kate's classical alarm call

Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 28 May 2021 06:30

Music Played

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio sonata in E major Op.2`10

    Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.
    • Chandos.
  • Benjamin Britten

    At the Mid Hour (Folk Song Arrangements, Vol 4, "Moore's Irish Melodies")

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Ailish Tynan.
    • An Irish Songbook.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 2201.
  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade for Strings

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • TELDEC.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 6 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Johannes Brahms

    A German Requiem Op.45 (How lovely Are thy Dwellings)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Performer: Alexander Mason. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Brahms & Bruckner: Motets.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 11.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet Op 64 No 4 in G major (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: London Haydn Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • Mary Lou Williams

    Rosa Mae

    Composer: Larry Gales. Performer: Mary Lou Williams. Performer: Bob Cranshaw. Performer: Mickey Roker.
    • Zoning.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.
    • 9.
  • Richard Wagner

    Siegfried Idyll

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DECCA.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in A flat major, Op.25 no.1

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Chopin: Etudes Op.10 & Op.25: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 21.
  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet no.2 in D major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Borodin Quartet.
    • Borodin: String Quartets Nos. 1&2: Borodin Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Gustav Holst

    Venus, the Bringer of Peace (The Planets, Op. 32)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Naxos.
  • Sulpitia Cesis

    Parvulus filius

    Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia. Director: Candace Smith.
    • Tactus.
  • Marianne Faithfull

    To the Moon

    Composer: Warren Ellis. Lyricist: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Singer: Marianne Faithfull. Performer: Nick Cave. Performer: Warren Ellis. Performer: Head.
    • Panta Rei.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2, 'Moonlight' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • In the Night.
    • HYPERION.
    • 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    St盲ndchen (Schwanengesang, D 957)

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Performer: Gerald Moore.
    • DG.
  • Reginald Spofforth

    Hail! Smiling Morn

    Performer: Delph Band. Conductor: Philip Goodwin.
    • Doyen.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 21 in C major, K467 'Elvira Madigan' (2nd mvt Andante)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart Momentum - 1785.
    • Sony.
    • 5.
  • Aaron Copland

    Quiet City

    Performer: Thomas Stacy. Performer: Philip Smith. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • DG.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Fugue; Air

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Kenneth Sillito.
    • CAPRICCIO.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Serenata con violini (Sinfonia), Op 8

    Ensemble: Ensemble Po茂esis.
    • Aeon.
  • Kaija Saariaho

    7 Papillons: No 7

    Performer: Anssi Karttunen.
    • Ondine.
  • Karen Tweed

    Back Home at Onsbacken

    Ensemble: RANT.
    • RANT.
    • Bandcamp.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Blueberry Slope (The Mountain Maid, Op. 67)

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Performer: H氓vard Gimse.
    • Storyteller.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 12.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Symphony in F sharp major, Op.40 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

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