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Friday - Hannah's classical picks

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 30 Dec 2022 06:30

Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque no.1 in E major

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅.
    • ONYX.
  • Owain Park

    O magnum mysterium

    Singer: Grace Davidson. Choir: Tenebrae. Director: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Lilian Elkington

    Out of the Mist

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Elgar - The Spirit of England etc..
    • Dutton Laboratories.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg variations BWV.988 (Variation 25)

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Clarence Cameron White

    Basque folk song

    Performer: Marcus Eley. Performer: Lucerne DeSa.
    • But Not Forgotten: Music by African-American Composers for clarinet and piano.
    • SONO LUMINUS.
    • 004.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Young Prince and the Young Princess (Scheherazade)

    Performer: Elise B氓tnes. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Lawo.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in A major, Op 118 No 2

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Brahms: 2 Rhapsodies Op.79, Klavierstucke Opp.117-119, Radu Lupu.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    La Finta giardiniera (Overture)

    Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien.
    • Mozart : Overtures - Elatus.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 12.
  • Jorge Ben Jor

    Mas Que Nada

    Ensemble: S茅rgio Mendes & Brasil 鈥66.
    • Sergio Mendes: The Swinger from Rio.
    • Universal Music Group International.
    • 2.
  • Georges Bizet

    L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Carmen)

    Singer: Teresa Berganza. Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon: The Collectors' Edition 2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Giovanni Antonio Guido

    Concerto Op.3 No.4 鈥楲鈥橦yver鈥

    Ensemble: Ensemble 1700. Director: Dorothee Oberlinger.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Leroy Anderson

    The Syncopated Clock

    Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • The Music of Leroy Anderson.
    • MERCURY.
    • 8.
  • FRIDAY POEM:

    "Past and Future" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, read by Pippa Haywood

  • George Arthur Richford

    My Dancing Day

    Choir: Royal Holloway Choir. Conductor: Rupert Gough.
    • All Angels: Choral Works by George Arthur.
    • Convivium Records.
    • 04.
  • Cole Porter

    Begin the Beguine

    Ensemble: Artie Shaw and His Orchestra.
    • 16 USA Top Hits Volume 4.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 16.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (M谩 vlast)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • B. Smetana; Ma Vlast: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Belohlavek.
    • Supraphon.
    • 2.
  • Pau Casals

    Song of the Birds (El Cant del Ocells)

    Performer: Pau Casals. Orchestra: Prades Festival Orchestra.
    • CBS.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Barber of Seville (Largo al factotum)

    Singer: Hermann Prey. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Decca.
  • Ludwig Thuille

    Sextet in B flat major Op.6 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Les Vents Fran莽ais. Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • Les Vents Fran莽ais - Winds & Piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 121.
  • Erik Satie

    Je te veux

    Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • Erik Satie: Encore: Roland Pontinen.
    • BIS.
    • 2.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty Suite: iv: Panorama

    Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites, Wiener Philharmoniker.
    • Decca.
    • 18.
  • Trad.

    The Holly and the Ivy

    Performer: Luca Morgante. Music Arranger: June Nixon. Choir: Somerville College Choir, Oxford. Director: Will Dawes.
    • RESONUS CLASSICS.
  • Dora Peja膷evi膰

    Symphony in F sharp minor Op.41 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Chandos.

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