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Ease into New Year's Day with classical music

Hannah French presents a New Year's Day edition of Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with 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

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New Year's Day 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Romance in F sharp major, Op 28 No 2

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Chandos.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Rondo for String Quartet in C minor

    Ensemble: Fine Arts Quartet.
    • Naxos.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Romance in E-Flat Major, Op. 11

    Conductor: Howard Griffiths. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • A Finzi Anthology.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Es streiten, es prangen die vorigen Zeiten (Cantata BWV.134a)

    Singer: Damien Guillon. Singer: Makoto Sakurada. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Ensemble: Pacifica Quartet.
    • Mozart & Brahms Clarinet Quintets.
    • Cedille.
    • 3.
  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    New Year's Carol

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Paul Brough.
    • My Dancing Day.
    • Signum.
    • 4.
  • Luise Adolpha Le Beau

    Piano Quartet in F minor (2nd mvt)

    • Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Richard Strauss

    Traumerei am Kamin (Dreaming by the Fireside)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Sony.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Danza espanola No 1 (La vida breve)

    Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: John Williams.
    • RCA.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wind Octet in E flat major, Op 103 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Bl盲serensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Beethoven: Octet etc.: Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Ernest Chausson

    Chanson perp茅tuelle, Op. 37

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Mary Bevan. Ensemble: Ruisi Quartet.
    • Visions illumin茅es.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 117.
  • John Hebden

    Concerto no.1 in A major

    Orchestra: London Early Opera. Conductor: Bridget Cunningham.
    • Handel at Vauxhall Volume 1.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 013.
  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: Robert Irving.
    • Vocalion.
  • Margaret Bonds

    Troubled Water

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett.
    • Till I Wake.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Christopher Simpson

    The Monthes: January

    Performer: Sophie Watillon. Performer: Friederike Heumann. Performer: Brian Franklin. Performer: Matthias Spaeter. Performer: Luca Guglielmi.
    • Simpson: The Seasons, The Monthes & other divisions of Time - I.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.59 in A major H.1.59 'Fire' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 13: Horn Signal.
    • ALPHA.
    • 05.
  • Hans G谩l

    Variations on a Viennese 'Heurigen' melody Op.9

    Ensemble: Briggs Piano Trio.
    • Gal; Shostakovich: Piano Trios.
    • AVIE.
    • 4.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Geistliches Lied

    Performer: Alexander Mason. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Henryk Wieniawski

    L茅gende Op.17

    Performer: Mar铆a Due帽as. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Beethoven and Beyond.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • John Field

    Nocturne in B flat major

    Performer: Magdalena Hoffmann.
    • Field: Nocturne in B Flat Major, H. 37 (Version for Harp).
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Carnival Overture, Op 92

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without Words in F sharp minor, Op 19 No 5

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Scherzo in D major Op.16 for orchestra

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in E flat major, H.15.29 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios - Volume 2: Hob XV: 28-31.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 (Menuet 1 and 2)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.

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