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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 24 Feb 2023 06:30

Music Played

  • Valentin Silvestrov

    Morning Serenade (2 Dialogues with Postscript)

    Performer: H茅l猫ne Grimaud. Ensemble: Camerata Salzburg. Conductor: Giovanni Guzzo.
    • The Messenger.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 9.
  • Claude Debussy

    Reflets dans l'eau (Images, Set 1)

    Performer: Arturo Michelangeli.
    • Debussy: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.
  • Caoimh铆n 脫 Raghallaigh

    Kestrel

    Composer: Thomas Bartlett. Performer: Caoimh铆n 脫 Raghallaigh. Performer: Thomas Bartlett.
    • Caoimh铆n 脫 Raghallaigh and Thomas Bartlett.
    • RealWorld.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 1 in C major, Op 21 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Cantata no.140)

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • JS Bach: Cantatas 52: Bach Collegium Japan/Suzuki.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Mel Bonis

    Oph茅lie (Trois femmes de legende)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV 425

    Performer: Duilio Galfetti. Ensemble: I Barocchisti. Conductor: Diego Fasolis.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Galfetti/I Barocchisti/Fasolis.
    • Claves.
    • 13.
  • Nadia Boulanger

    Soleils couchants

    Performer: Maria Ioudenitch. Performer: Kenny Broberg.
    • Songbird.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Night mail

    Author: W. H. Auden. Narrator: Simon Russell Beale. Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • NMC.
  • Francis Poulenc

    En chemin de fer (Promenades, No 8)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • Poulenc - Piano Music, Vol. 3.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 24.
  • Duke Ellington

    Daybreak Express

    Ensemble: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
    • Columbia Original Masters.
    • RCA/Legacy.
    • 25.
  • Gaspar Sanz

    Canario

    Performer: Xavier D铆az-Latorre. Performer: Pedro Estevan.
    • La Guitarra dels Lleons.
    • CANTUS.
    • 9.
  • Anonymous

    Kilmarnock Psalm 16 8-9

    Choir: Congregation of the Back Free Church, Lewis.
    • Salm vol 1.
    • Arc Light Editions.
    • 1.
  • Max Bruch

    Romance for viola and orchestra, Op 85

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Br矛ghde Chaimbeul

    Oran an Eich-Uisge (Song of the Waterhorse)

    Performer: Br矛ghde Chaimbeul.
    • Carry them with us.
    • 7.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in B flat major, Kk.529

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    On This Island by W H Auden, read by Peter Marinker

  • Grace Williams

    Sailing Song (Sea Sketches)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: David Atherton.
    • Grace Williams: Sea Sketches, Fantasia, Carillons: Camden/Snell/LSO/RPO/ECO.
    • Lyrita.
    • 14.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in E flat major Op.18 'Grande valse brillante'

    Performer: Anna Fedorova.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Anon.

    La morte della Ragione (pavana)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • La morte della ragione.
    • Alpha.
    • 2.
  • Giorgio Mainerio

    Gagliarda

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • La morte della ragione.
    • Alpha.
    • 3.
  • Christopher Tye

    ln Nomine Crye

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • La morte della ragione.
    • Alpha.
    • 4.
  • Ethel Smyth

    String Suite Op.1a (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: South-West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim. Conductor: Douglas Bostock.
    • British Music for Strings, Vol. 3.
    • CPO.
    • 101.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Le Tic-Toc-Choc (Ordre no.18)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Tic, Toc, Choc.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 002.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade no.1 in D major, Op.11 (6th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Rodelinda - Overture and Minuet

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.
    • Linn.
  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major D.803 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Anne Katharina Schreiber. Performer: Danusha Waskiewicz. Performer: Kristin von der Goltz. Performer: James Munro. Performer: Lorenzo Coppola. Performer: Teunis van der Zwart. Performer: Javier Zafra.
    • Schubert: Oktett.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.
  • Meade Lux Lewis

    Honky Tonk Train Blues

    Performer: Meade Lux Lewis.
    • Complete Jazz Series 1941 - 1944.
    • Complete Jazz Series.
    • 11.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Navarra Op.33

    Performer: Chlo毛 Hanslip. Performer: Mikhail Ovrutsky. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Bruch - Violin Concertos nos. 1 & 3: Sarasate - Navarra.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
    • 7.

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