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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 4 Mar 2022 06:30

Music Played

  • Arvo P盲rt

    The Deer's Cry

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • The Deer's Cry.
    • Coro.
    • 003.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in B flat major, Op.97 'Archduke' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: ATOS Trio.
    • Beethoven Piano Trios 2.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • 02.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Larghetto

    Performer: Ronald Janezic. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Chabrier: Espana: Wiener Philharmoniker, John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

    Music Arranger: Myra Hess. Performer: Myra Hess.
    • Philips.
  • Frederic Hymen Cowen

    Reverie

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Augellette, che cantate (Rinaldo)

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • DECCA.
  • Caroline Shaw

    And the Swallow

    Music Arranger: Julian Azkoul. Orchestra: United Strings of Europe. Conductor: Julian Azkoul.
    • Renewal.
    • BIS.
    • 501.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Overtura, from Serenade in F major (Op. 31)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Stig Westerberg.
    • Stenhammar: Piano Concerto No.2, Serenade etc..
    • EMI.
    • 5.
  • Johann Kuhnau

    Magnificat in C major: i. Magnificat anima mea, ii. Et exsultavit spritus meus

    Ensemble: Solomon's Knot. Director: Jonathan Sells.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in E flat major, D.899 no.2

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Schubert: Live: Imogen Cooper.
    • Avie.
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude (only); Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, bk.1 no. 24 (BWV.869) in B minor

    Music Arranger: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les sauvages (Suite in G minor, Nouvelles suites de pi猫ces de clavecin)

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.
    • HYPERION.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Fanfarinette (Nouvelles suites de pi猫ces de clavecin)

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.
    • Rameau: Pieces de Clavecin.
    • HYPERION.
    • 5.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    The Year's Awakening by Thomas Hardy, read by Trevor Peacock

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Spring (3 Botticelli Pictures)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (Suite Bergamasque, L.75: No.3)

    Performer: Van Cliburn.
    • RCA Red Seal.
  • Mykola Leontovych

    Otche Nach (The Lord's Prayer)

    Choir: National Academic Choir of Ukraine 'Dumka'. Director: Yevhen Savchuk.
    • K617.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso in D major, Op.6 No.1

    Ensemble: Avison Ensemble. Director: Pavlo Beznosiuk.
  • Percy Grainger

    Country Gardens

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Bk 2, Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 875

    Performer: Rosalyn Tureck.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 1 & 2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Linden Lea

    Ensemble: Launton Handbell Ringers.
    • SAYDISC.
  • Anthony Hedges

    Heigham Sound - overture

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • HERITAGE.
  • Florence Price

    Nimble Feet from Dances in the Canebrakes

    Performer: Althea Waites.
    • Black Diamonds.
    • Cambria.
    • 004.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no.1 in C minor, Op.32 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg. Conductor: Christoph K枚nig.
    • Naxos.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite (for piano solo), Op. 40; V Rigaudon

    Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland.
    • Simax.

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