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Hannah French

Hannah French plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.

Hannah French plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites, new discoveries and the occasional musical surprise.

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

Thu 13 Apr 2023 09:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G major K.525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Mozart: Serenate, Notturne, Eine kleine Nachtmusik: Le Concert de Nations, Jordi.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Idylle (Suite pastorale)

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • MIRARE.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Five Bagatelles (No 5, Fughetta)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • The Lyrical Clarinet.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Che si puo fare

    Performer: Leonardo Garc铆a Alarc贸n. Performer: Mariana Flores. Ensemble: Cappella Mediterranea.
    • Ambronay.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Sheherazade (The Festival at Baghdad; The Sea; The Shipwreck)

    Performer: Herman Krebbers. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin.
    • PHILIPS.
  • V铆t臎zslava Kapr谩lov谩

    April Preludes (No 4, Vivo)

    Performer: Leonie Karatas.
    • La Vita - Leonie Karatas plays V铆t臎zslava Kapr谩lov谩.
    • EuroArts Music International.
    • 7.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    The Creatures of Prometheus (Overture)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    The Willow Song (Othello)

    Conductor: Fawzi Haimor. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.
  • Tielman Susato

    Mourisque

    Ensemble: 銈裤儢銉┿儓銈ャ兗銉.
    • Tablatura Collection.
    • Universal Music LLC.
    • 3.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    O Oriens

    Performer: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.
    • A Time for all Seasons.
    • DELPHIAN RECORDS.
    • 2.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Recorder Concerto in F major, RV.442 (3rd mvmt, Allegro)

    Performer: Frans Br眉ggen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century.
    • Vivaldi: Concerti for Flute, Strings and Basso continuo, Op.10, Nos. 1-6; Marcel.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 15.
  • Augusta Holm猫s

    Andromeda

    Orchestra: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra. Conductor: Leo Halsdorf.
    • Compositrices - New Light on French Romantic Women Composers.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 1.
  • V铆t臎zslava Kapr谩lov谩

    April Preludes (No 4, Vivo)

    Performer: Leonie Karatas.
    • La Vita - Leonie Karatas plays V铆t臎zslava Kapr谩lov谩.
    • EuroArts Music International.
    • 7.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Sonata (Divertimento) in A major, H.16.12 (3rd mvmt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Solveig's Cradle Song (Peer Gynt)

    Singer: Marita Kvarving S酶lberg. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • BIS.
  • Traditional Albanian

    Kenga e Krushqve

    Performer: Steven McIntyre. Music Arranger: James McMillan.
    • LINN.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Hamurger Ebb und Fluth (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bremen Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Helbich.
    • Telemann: Hamburger Admiralitatsmusik (Live).
    • CPO.
    • 101.
  • Scott Joplin

    Original Rag No 1

    Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: J茅r么me Ducros. Music Arranger: Dieter F枚rster.
    • Intuition.
    • ERATO.
    • 112.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Nocturne for strings in B major, Op 40

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • CHANDOS.
  • V铆t臎zslava Kapr谩lov谩

    April Preludes (No 4, Vivo)

    Performer: Leonie Karatas.
    • La Vita - Leonie Karatas plays V铆t臎zslava Kapr谩lov谩.
    • EuroArts Music International.
    • 7.
  • Vernon Duke

    April in Paris

    Orchestra: The Count Basie Orchestra.
    • Jumpin' at the Woodside.
    • Radio Tower Records.
    • 6.
  • Thomas Morley

    April is in my Mistress' Face

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • An Immortal Legacy.
    • CORO.
    • 6.
  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un matin de printemps

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
  • Trad.

    The Oak and the Ash

    Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • Watching the White Wheat - Folksongs of the British Isles.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • John Foulds

    April - England

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • John Foulds: Piano Music.
    • BIS.
    • 15.
  • Jessie Montgomery

    Break Away (3rd mvmt, Smoke)

    Ensemble: PUBLIQuartet.
    • Azica Records.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Patria oppressa! (Macbeth, Act 4)

    Choir: Chorus of La Scala, Milan. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Verdi Choruses.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 11.
  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in F minor

    Orchestrator: Franz Liszt. Orchestrator: Franz Doppler. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • The Liszt Collection.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • H茅l猫ne de Montgeroult

    Violin Sonata in A minor Op.2 no.3 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sophie Rosa. Performer: Ian Buckle.
    • Montgeroult, Viotti, Weber & Mendelssohn: Violin Sonatas.
    • Rubicon.
    • 5.
  • Edward Elgar

    Froissart - Concert Overture, Op 19

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • ARGO.

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