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Your classical alarm call

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with the Friday poem and music that captures the mood of the morning. To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sounds to play Breakfast’. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 22 Nov 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • John Field

    Nocturne no.5 in B flat major

    Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • NAXOS.
  • Edward Elgar

    There Is Sweet Music (4 Choral songs Op.53)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Music Of The Spheres: Part Songs Of The British Isles.
    • SIGNUM.
    • 9.
  • Agustín Barrios Mangoré

    Julia Florida

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • ±Ê°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ¾±Ã³²Ô.
    • Pentatone.
    • 104.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Oboe d'Amore Concerto in A Major, BWV.1055a

    Performer: Marcel Ponseele. Ensemble: Il Gardellino.
    • Bach: Oboe Concertos.
    • Accent.
    • 7-9.
  • Franz Schubert

    An die Musik

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Bryn Terfel.
    • An die Musik.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Horn Concerto Op.58 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Lee Reynolds.
    • Willow Hayne Records.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in E, Op 109 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Sony.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony no.1 in D major Op.25 'Classical' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.
  • Léo Delibes

    Mazurka (Coppélia)

    Orchestra: Opéra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Delibes: Coppelia: Orchestre de l'opera de Lyon/Nagano.
    • Erato.
    • 4.
  • Henry Purcell

    Here the Deities Approve (Ode for St Cecilia's Day)

    Author: Christopher Fishburn. Singer: Tim Mead. Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien. Director: François Lazarevitch.
    • Purcell: Songs & Dances.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 5.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Gaffigan.
    • Warner.
  • µþÂáö°ù°ì

    Frosti

    Performer: µþÂáö°ù°ì.
    • Vespertine.
    • Elektra.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    Frosted Fields, written by Rachael Boast, read by Rachael Boast

  • William Alwyn

    Winter Landscape (3 Winter Poems)

    Ensemble: Bridge String Quartet.
    • Alwyn: Chamber Music and Songs.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op.66

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Chopin: Impromptus, Waltzes & Mazurkas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Sonata no. 2 (1st mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Andrew Armstrong.
    • ONYX.
  • Aaron Copland

    Rodeo - 4 Dance Episodes (Hoe-down)

    Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • TELARC DIGITAL.
  • Orlande de Lassus

    La nuict froide et sombre, LV 578

    Lyricist: Joachim du Bellay.
    • Orlando, A Melancholic Portrait.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: String Quartet in F Major, M. 35: II. Assez vif. Très rythmé

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • Debussy, Attahir, Ravel.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Locus iste

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Bruckner: Mass in E Minor, Motets.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 110.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (My Country)

    Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Jakub Hrůša.
    • Smetana: My Country.
    • SUPRAPHON.
    • 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata in D major Op.102 No.2 for cello and piano, 3rd mvt

    Performer: Ildikó Szabó. Performer: István Lajkó.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto, Op. 3 No. 7 'Con quattro Violini e Violoncello obligato', RV 567

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Orchestra: Brecon Baroque.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • Edwin York Bowen

    Rêverie d'amour, Op.20`2

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

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