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Friday - Hannah's classical commute

Hannah French presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.

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Fri 7 May 202106:30
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Music Played

  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Dream Coloured Mobile II, Op.58a

    Performer: Joe Houghton. Performer: Kate Wilson. Ensemble: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • Chandos.

  • Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla

    Credo (Missa Ego flos campi)

    Ensemble: Ex Cathedra. Ensemble: QuintEssential Sackbut & Cornet Ensemble. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • New World Symphonies - Baroque Music from L:atin America: Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey S.
    • Hyperion.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Romance in F major, op.36

    Performer: Mischa Maisky. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sarabande, Burlesca, Scherzo, Gigue (Partita No.3 in A minor, BWV827)

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.

  • Clara Schumann

    Abendfeier in Venedig (3 Part-songs)

    Ensemble: Studio Vocale Karlsruhe. Conductor: Werner Pfaff.
    • Schumann - Die Chorwerke Vol. 2.
    • EBS.
    • 1.

  • Georges Bizet

    Jeux d'enfants, Op.22 - petite suite d'orchestre

    Orchestra: Paris Conservatoire Orchestra. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • DECCA.

  • Thomas Arne

    Overture No 3 in G major

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Arne: Eight Overtures: Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no.17 in D minor Op.31 no.2 'Tempest' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Éric Heidsieck.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.

  • George Gershwin

    By Strauss

    Music Arranger: Nelson Riddle. Performer: Ella Fitzgerald. Orchestra: Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra. Conductor: Nelson Riddle.
    • Verve.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Voices of spring, Op.40

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • Johann Strauss: Famous Waltzes: Boskovsky.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)

    Performer: Mats Lidström. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • Camille Saint-Saens: Music for Cello: Lidstrom/Forsberg.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • FRIDAY POEM

    Prairie Spring by Willa Cather, read by Bonnie Hurran

  • Lukas Foss

    3 American pieces for violin and orchestra: Early Song

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • EMI.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony: LSO/Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The trees they grow so high

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Britten: Canticle 1/Michelangelo sonnets etc: Johnson/Johnson.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Nightclub 1960 (L'histoire du tango)

    Performer: Patrick Gallois. Performer: Göran Söllscher.
    • Piazzolla for Two - Tangos for Flute & Guitar: Patrick Gallois, Goran Sollscher.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    "No word from Tom... I go to him" Anne's Cabaletta (The Rake's Progress, Act I)

    Singer: Kate Royal. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Pa... pa... pa...)

    Singer: Inger Dam-Jensen. Singer: François Le Roux. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • CONIFER.

  • Marianna Martines

    Sinfonia (Overture) in C major

    Ensemble: La Floridiana. Director: Nicoleta Paraschivescu.
    • Marianna Martines: Il Primo Amore.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1-3.

  • Leroy Anderson

    Plink plank plunk for orchestra

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • The Typewriter Leroy Anderson Favourites.
    • RCA.
    • 5.

  • Trad.

    The Ash Grove

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Philip Langridge.
    • Britten: Folk Song Arrangements.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Violin Sonata no.3 in C minor Op.45 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.

Broadcast

  • Fri 7 May 202106:30
    BBC Radio 3