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Friday - Hannah's classical alternative

Hannah French 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 31 Dec 2021 06:30

Music Played

  • Muzio Clementi

    Piano Sonata in E flat major, Op 23 No 1

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • HYPERION.
  • Gustav Holst

    Capriccio

    Music Arranger: Imogen Holst. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Holst: Egdon Heath, Hammersmith etc.: LSO/Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata no.122 BWV.122 (Das Neugebor'ne Kindelein)

    Singer: Yukari Nonoshita. Singer: Tim Travers-Brown. Singer: Makoto Sakurada. Singer: Peter Kooij. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O virtus Sapientie Alio Modo

    Performer: Guy Sigsworth. Singer: Stevie Wishart. Ensemble: Sinfonye.
    • Decca.
  • Trad.

    The Bells

    Performer: Tom Hazelton.
    • KLAVIER.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Scherzo no. 2 in B flat minor Op.31 for piano

    Performer: Beatrice Rana.
    • WARNER.
  • Fran莽ois-Joseph Gossec

    Quartet, Op 15 No 6

    Ensemble: Apollon Musagete Quartet.
  • Jennifer Higdon

    Harp Concerto (Lullaby)

    Performer: Yolanda Kondonassis. Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ward Stare.
    • American Rapture.
    • Azica.
    • 3.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • DG.
  • Georges Bizet

    Toreador (Los Toreros)

    Music Arranger: Joachim Schmeisser. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Ensemble: Nuevo Mundo. Director: Michael Abramovich.
    • Carmen.
    • DG.
    • 16.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    The Right Givers by Elizabeth Jennings, read by Kate Littlewood

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The tale of Tsar Saltan - suite (Op.57), The Three wonders

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade: Philharmonia/Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Arturo Buzzi鈥怭eccia

    Lolita

    Music Arranger: Cecil Milner. Singer: Freddie De Tommaso. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Renato Balsadonna.
    • Decca.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op 70 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christmas Oratorio: 'Herrscher des Himmels, erh枚re das Lallen'

    Music Arranger: Bill Dobbins. Choir: The King鈥檚 Singers. Conductor: Bill Dobbins.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Gaffigan.
    • Warner.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Singt dem Herren alle Stimmen! from The Creation, part 3

    Singer: Yeree Suh. Singer: Tilman Lichdi. Singer: Matthias Winckhler. Choir: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Tarantelle Op.6 for flute, clarinet and orchestra

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Performer: Demarre McGill. Orchestra: Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Allen Tinkham.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Gimell.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 7 in A major, Op 92 (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.
    • 8.

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