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Classical music to brighten your morning

Hannah French presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

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Thu 19 Oct 202306:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • John Eccles

    Ground: Aire (The Mad Lover Suite)

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • The Mad Lover.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.

  • Poldowski

    L'heure exquise

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Performer: Jérôme Ducros.
    • Green - Mélodies françaises.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 128.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op.115 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Boris Brovtsyn. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Torleif Thedéen.
    • BIS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bourrées; V. Polonaise & Double; Menuett; Badinerie (Orchestral Suite no 2 in B minor)

    Ensemble: Verita Baroque Ensemble.
    • The German Album.
    • Evil Penguin.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Study in A-Flat, Op. 25 no 1: "Aeolian Harp"

    Performer: Beatrice Rana.
    • Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25 & 4 Scherzi.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • John Taverner

    Sanctus (Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas)

    Choir: Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford. Conductor: Stephen Darlington.
    • Misa Gloria tibi Trinitas.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 6.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Sinfonia concertante in B flat major H.1.105 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Hyperion.

  • Martin Peerson

    The Fall of the Leafe

    Performer: Christopher Hogwood.
    • DECCA.

  • Vernon Duke

    Autumn in New York

    Singer: Billie Holiday. Performer: Oscar Peterson.
    • Intense Media GmbH.

  • Imogen Holst

    The Fall of the Leaf

    Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • Hyperion.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    La Barcheta (Venezia)

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Souvenirs De Venise.
    • Helios.
    • 13.

  • Trad.

    Country Gardens

    Performer: William Kimber.
    • SUPREME MEDIA.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos: Hough/Dallas Symphony Orch/Litton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Dario Castello

    Sonata nono

    Performer: Bojan Čičić. Performer: Josue Melendez. Performer: Benny Aghassi. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • AAM.

  • George Frideric Handel

    As steals the morn (L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Singer: Mark Padmore. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Robin Holloway

    Serenade in C, Op. 41 (5th mvt)

    Ensemble: Wigmore Soloists.
    • Wigmore Soloists - Ferguson, Bliss, Holloway - Chamber Music.
    • BIS.
    • 13.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major D.485 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: B’Rock Orchestra. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 204.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Fantasia.
    • SONY.
    • 2.

  • Jonathan Bates

    The Crowning

    Performer: Foden’s Band. Conductor: Michael Fowles.
    • Trials & Triumphs.
    • DOYEN.

  • Reinhold Moritzevich Glière

    Romance

    Performer: Aleksey Demenenko. Performer: Inna Firsova.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia, Op 26

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.
    • Sibelius.
    • Linn Records.
    • 2.

  • Thomas Tomkins

    To the shady woods now wend we

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Anonymous

    Chestnut (Dove's Vagary)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Galilei.
    • Come, Gentle Night: Music of Shakespeare's World.
    • Telarc.
    • 1.

  • George Gershwin

    Piano Concerto in F major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Robertson.
    • The Gershwin Moment.
    • Myrios Classics.
    • 8.

Broadcast

  • Thu 19 Oct 202306:30
    BBC Radio 3