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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.

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Fri 3 Jan 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Balys Dvarionas

    Pezzo elegiaco 'Prie e啪er路elio' ('By the lake')

    Performer: Vadim Gluzman. Orchestra: Residentie Orkest. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • BIS.
  • Gioseffo Zarlino

    Ego rosa saron

    Choir: Ensemble Plus Ultra. Conductor: Michael Noone.
    • Glossa.
  • Richard Strauss

    Capriccio: Prelude (Introduction)

    Performer: Thomas Kakuska. Performer: Valentin Erben. Ensemble: Artemis Quartet.
    • Verklarte Nacht.
    • Erato.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F major, BWV 1046 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos: Concerto Italiano.
    • Naive.
    • 3.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante defunte

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Monteux.
    • Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe.
    • Decca.
    • 17.
  • Mel Bonis

    Suite en trio, Op 59

    Ensemble: Trio Empreinte.
    • Bonis, Boulanger, Finzi & Gotkovsky: Crossing the Line.
    • Klarthe.
    • 104.
  • Agust铆n Barrios Mangor茅

    Julia Florida

    • Craig Ogden in Concert.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.99 in E flat major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 4.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Berceuse (Dolly Suite)

    Performer: Andreas Brantelid. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • BIS.
  • Ferenc Farkas

    Aria e Rondo all'ungherese

    Performer: J谩nos Rolla. Orchestra: Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra. Director: J谩nos Rolla.
    • Farkas - Orchestral Music, Vol 3.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 027.
  • Jean鈥怞oseph de Mondonville

    Sonate en symphonie in F major Op.3 no.2

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    "Chopin Prelude in D flat", written and read by Kate Wakeling

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    'Raindrop' Prelude in D flat major (24 Preludes Op.28)

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter.
    • Ingrid Fliter: Frederic Chopin - Preludes.
    • LINN.
    • 15.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps (Overture)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphonies: 大象传媒SO, Davies.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Dora Peja膷evi膰

    Snowdrop & Red Carnation (The Life of Flowers)

    Performer: Ida Gamulin.
    • Dora Pejacevic: Ida Gamulin: piano music.
    • CROATIA RECORDS.
    • 1 & 6.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op 70 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra.
    • Dvorak:Symphony no. 7 Suite in A major,Budapest Festival Orchestra,Ivan Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 2.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Barber of Seville (Largo al factotum)

    Singer: Hermann Prey. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Decca.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu No.2 from Impromptus D.899

    Performer: Ashley Fripp.
  • Trad.

    Blow the wind southerly

    Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Performer: Phyllis Spurr.
    • Kathleen Ferrier - Vol.8: Blow the Wind Southerly.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    Sei mir gegrusst (D.741)

    Performer: J煤lia Pusker. Performer: Zolt谩n Fej茅rv谩ri.
    • HUNGAROTON.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 6 in F major, Op 68, 'Pastoral' (1st mvt)

    Conductor: G眉nter Wand. Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Wand, NDR-Sinfonieorchester.
    • RCA Classics.
    • 5.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in A Minor "Emile Gaillard"

    Performer: Peter Jablonski.
    • Chopin: Complete Mazurkas, Vol. 2.
    • Ondine.
    • 6.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Firebird Suite: The Princesses' Round Dance; Infernal Dance

    Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra.
    • Stravinsky: Rite of Spring, Firebird Suite, Scherzo, Tango.
    • Channel Classics Records.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto in F major HWV.295 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Simon Preston. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Handel: Organ Concertos: Simon Preston.
    • Archiv Produktion.
  • Karen Tanaka

    Water Dance No.3: Very lightly, like a harp

    Performer: Signe Bakke.
    • Crystalline.
    • 2L.
    • 4.

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