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Friday - Hannah's classical commute

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 Mar 2023 06:30

Music Played

  • Indian Classical

    Raga Bhairav

    Performer: Amjad Ali Khan. Performer: Gurdev Singh.
    • Nawras.
  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Debussy & Ravel: String Quartets.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 6.
  • Jean-Baptiste Accolay

    Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Juilliard Orchestra. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.
    • EMI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Kommt, ihr T枚chter, helft mir klagen (St Matthew Passion, BWV 244)

    Ensemble: Pygmalion. Choir: Ma卯trise de Radio France. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
    • JS Bach: Matth盲us-Passion.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in B flat major K.361 'Gran Partita' (7th mvt)

    Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B flat major, K361 'Gran Partita': Linos Ensemble.
    • Capriccio.
    • 7.
  • Edvard Grieg

    The Last Spring (No 2 of Two Elegiac Melodies, Op 34)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Grieg & Tchaikovsky: Music for String Orchestra.
    • DG.
    • 7.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Le rouet d'Omphale

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.
    • EMI.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    Da Vinci Requiem: Vi. O You Who Are Asleep

    Performer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Neil Ferris.
    • Cecilia McDowell: Da Vinci Requiem, Seventy Degrees Below Zero.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 106.
  • Erik Satie

    Je te veux

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • The Magic of Satie.
    • Decca.
    • 11.
  • Judith Weir

    Atlantic Drift

    Performer: Madeleine Mitchell. Performer: Cerys Jones.
    • Violin Muse.
    • Divine Art.
    • 5.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: IV. Vivace

    Orchestra: S茫o Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Prokofiev: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 104.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Toccata in G major, BuxWV 164

    Performer: Julia Brown.
    • Buxtehude: Organ Music Vol. 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    Magpie Complex, written and read by Kate Wakeling

  • Robert Schumann

    Vogel als Prophet, Op 82 No 7 (Waldszenen)

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • Schumann: Kinderszenen, Waldszenen & Bunte Blatter.
    • Warner.
    • 20.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Dormi, o fulmine di guerra (La Giuditta)

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: Ensemble Artaserse.
    • ERATO.
  • George Gershwin

    Summertime (Porgy and Bess)

    Performer: Miles Davis. Ensemble: Ensemble. Conductor: Gil Evans.
    • Columbia.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 40 (1941 Version): III. Allegro vivace

    Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto Nos. 1 & 4, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
    • Naxos.
    • 132.
  • William Byrd

    Crowned with flowers

    Choir: The Sixteen.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Fanfare; Villes (Les Illuminations)

    Singer: Toby Spence. Orchestra: Scottish Ensemble. Director: Clio Gould.
    • LINN.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.8 in F major Op.93 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Beethoven Symphonies: Live from the Edinburgh Festival.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Thomas Arne

    The Morning: The Glitt'ring Sun

    Performer: Elizabeth Joy Roe. Performer: Greg Anderson. Music Arranger: Elizabeth Joy Roe. Music Arranger: Greg Anderson.
    • Steinway & Sons.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76 No. 5, Hob. III:79: I. Allegretto

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76 Nos. 4-6.
    • BIS.
    • 201.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Overture)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Hollywood Soundstage.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.

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