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Hannah French

Hannah French plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

Hannah French plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.

0930 Playlist starter 鈥 listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day 鈥 harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1045 Playlist reveal 鈥 a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1130 Slow Moment 鈥 time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Last on

Mon 10 Apr 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmilla (Overture)

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Russian Sketches.
    • Telarc.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Ciconia

    Petrum Marcello venetum

    Ensemble: Mala Punica. Conductor: Pedro Memelsdorff.
    • Erato.
  • Amy Beach

    Romance, Op.23

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Michael Brown.
    • Echoes.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Robert Schumann

    Concertst眉ck in F major, Op.86 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • RCA.
  • Rune Tonsgaard S酶rensen

    Shine You No More

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (The Magic Castle on Sweet Mountain)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.41 in C major, K.551 'Jupiter' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart: Symphonien No. 40 & No. 41 禄Jupiter芦: Abbado/LSO.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Jordan Cauvin

    Theatre du Chatelet

    Performer: Thibault Cauvin.
    • Sony.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.42 'Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats' (Sinfonia)

    Ensemble: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.
    • DHM.
  • Georgs Pel膿cis

    Flowering Jasmine

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Andrei Pushkarev. Orchestra: Kremerata Baltica. Director: Gidon Kremer.
    • NONESUCH.
  • Johannes Brahms

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

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Juan de Triana

    Con temor vivo

    Singer: Alena Dantcheva. Ensemble: Accademia del Piacere. Director: Fahmi Alqhai.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no.21 in C major Op.53 'Waldstein' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Niccol貌 Jommelli

    Sinfonia in E flat major [The Periodical Overtures in 8 parts]

    Orchestra: Concerto K枚ln. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • El Maestro - Farinelli.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 19.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Violin Concerto no.2 in G minor Op.63 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Nikolaj Znaider. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • RCA.
  • Scott Joplin

    Sugar Cane

    Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Joplin, Previn: Ragtime & Blues.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.
  • Leslie Bricusse

    The Candy Man (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)

    Composer: Anthony Newley. Singer: Aubrey Woods. Conductor: Walter Scharf.
    • Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory.
    • Geffen.
    • 2.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    The Old Castle (Pictures from an Exhibition)

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Ravel: La Valse - Mussorgsky: Les Tableaux d'une exposition (Orch. Ravel).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.
  • Richard Strauss

    Schlagobers-Walzer (Schlagobers Op.70)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Strauss: Schlagobers, Munchen: Detroit SO/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    La Befana (Feste Romane)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor Op.10 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Piano quintet/Clarinet quintet: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Nulla in mundo pax sincera RV.630

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Catherine Rimer. Performer: Thomas Dunford. Performer: Jan Waterfield. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Christian Curnyn.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Italia.
    • Decca.
    • 15.
  • Gerald Finzi

    To Lizbie Brown Op15 no.7

    Music Arranger: Mike Sheppard. Performer: Amy Dickson. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 13.
  • Vladimir Martynov

    The Beatitudes

    Choir: Conspirare. Director: Craig Hella Johnson.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Straussiana

    Orchestra: Bruckner Orchester Linz. Conductor: Caspar Richter.
    • Korngold - Fairytale Pictures and other orchestral music.
    • ASV.
    • 009.
  • William Byrd

    Afflicti pro peccatis nostris

    Choir: The Cardinall鈥檚 Musick. Director: Andrew Carwood.
    • William Byrd: Infelix ego The Cardinall's Musick.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Octet in E flat Major Op.20 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Gringolts Quartet. Ensemble: Meta4.
    • Felix Mendelssohn & Enescu: Octets.
    • BIS.
    • 104.

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  • Mon 10 Apr 2023 09:00

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