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Start the day right with classical music

Hannah French presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with the Friday poem and music that captures the mood of the morning. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask 大象传媒 Sounds to play Breakfast.鈥

3 hours

Music Played

  • Hubert Parry

    My soul, there is a country (Songs of Farewell)

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Director: Richard Marlow.
    • Conifer.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Crisantemi

    Ensemble: Puccini Quartet.
    • Puccini,Catalani: String Music: Puccini Quartet.
    • ASV.
    • 5.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered.
    • Azica Records.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg variations BWV.988 (Variation 25)

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude in A flat major, Op 87 No 17a

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • On DSCH.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • Gustav Holst

    Venus, the Bringer of Peace (The Planets, Op. 32)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Naxos.
  • Jester Hairston

    Mary's Boy Child

    Composer: Philip Sparke. Ensemble: Koninklijke Militaire Kapel 鈥淛ohan Willem Friso鈥. Conductor: Tijmen Botma.
    • De Haske Winds.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Rhapsody for Clarinet & String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 23

    Performer: Peter Cigleris. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Gipps: Clarinet Chamber Music.
    • SOMM.
  • Jeremiah Clarke

    Trumpet Voluntary 'The Prince of Denmark's March'

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sony.
  • Sasha Johnson Manning

    Christmas Flowers

    Performer: Nicholas Ward. Lyricist: Carol Ann Duffy. Choir: Manchester Carollers. Orchestra: Northern Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Tanner.
    • The Manchester Carols.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op. 20 No. 4, I. Allegro di molto

    Ensemble: Kleio Quartet.
  • Edward Elgar

    Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 "Enigma": Variation VII. Troyte

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Elgar: Orchestral Works.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Charles Gounod

    Waltz from Faust

    Conductor: Richard Hayman.
    • French Ballet Favourites.
    • Naxos.
    • 17.
  • Johann Strauss II

    The Blue Danube

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • Johann Strauss: Famous Waltzes: Boskovsky.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Trad.

    My love is like a red, red rose

    Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Music Arranger: Thomas Swift Gleadhill. Singer: Glen Cunningham.
    • Delphian.
  • John Powell

    Into The Pie Machine (from 'Chicken Run')

    Composer: Harry Gregson鈥怶illiams.
    • Chicken Run.
    • RCA Victor.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Magnificat (Vespers)

    Choir: Academy of Choral Arts Choir. Conductor: Victor Popov.
    • Rachmaninov, S.: All-Night Vigil, "Vespers".
    • Delos.
    • 111.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 1 in C major, Op 21 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Beethoven Symphonies: Live from the Edinburgh Festival.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Hens and Roosters (Carnival of the Animals)

    Conductor: Andr茅 Previn. Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
    • Philips.
  • Pierre Passereau

    Il est bel et bon

    Choir: Laudantes Consort. Conductor: Guy Janssens.
    • The Golden Age of European Polyphony.
    • Cypres.
  • Ferdinand H茅rold

    Clog Dance (La fille mal gard茅e)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • EMI.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100: I. Allegro amabile

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Performer: Leonidas Kavakos.
    • Brahms: The Violin Sonatas.
    • Decca.
  • Elmer Bernstein

    The Great Escape (Main Titles)

    Orchestra: London Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Stanley Black.
    • The Guns of Navarone 鈥 Music from World War II Films.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Henry Litolff

    Concerto symphonique No 4, Op 102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Clifford Curzon. Conductor: Adrian Boult. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Clifford Curzon Edition Complete Recordings.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    See, the Conqu'ring Hero Comes! (Judas Maccabeus)

    Performer: Bernhard R枚mer.
    • The Queen of Instruments: Selected Organ Works, Vol. 1.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 901.
  • Mikhl Gelbart

    I am a Little Dreydl (Ikh bin a kleyner Dreydl)

    Choir: Chicago a cappella.
    • Miracle of Miracles:.
    • Cedille Records.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 1 In G Minor Op.13 (Winter Daydreams) 1. Allegro Tranquillo ('Dreams of a Winter Journey')

    Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke鈥檚. Conductor: Pablo Heras鈥怌asado.
    • Harmonia Mundi : HMC 902220.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite no.4 in D major BWV.1069 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • J.S. Bach, Orchestral Suites, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra / Ton Koopman.
    • RCA.
    • 10.
  • Joby Talbot

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Suite: IX. The Flower Garden Part II

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Austin.
    • Talbot: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Fool's Paradise.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 109.

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