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Wake up with classical music

Hannah French presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with the Friday poem and music that captures the mood of the morning. Email your requests to [email protected]

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Fri 10 May 202406:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin (Prélude)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Ravel: La valse, M. 72 & Other Works.
    • BIS.
    • 101.

  • Franz Schubert

    Die Nacht, D.983C

    Performer: Josephine Knight. Ensemble: The Gesualdo Six.
    • Schubert Reimagined.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 601.

  • Marianna Martines

    Harpsichord Concerto in E major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Nicoleta Paraschivescu. Ensemble: La Floridiana.
    • deutsche harmonia mundi.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Aria variata in A Minor, BWV 989

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • Glenn Gould plays Bach: 6 Partitas BWV 825-830; Chromatic Fantasy BWV 903; Itali.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet no.12 in F Major Op.96 'American' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Pacifica Quartet.
    • American Voices.
    • Cedille Records.
    • 104.

  • Ferdinand Ries

    Sextet in G minor Op. 142; 1st mvt - Allegro ma no troppo

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique Op.14 (Un bal)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 11.

  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Who knows?

    Performer: Alexandra Mackenzie. Performer: Ingrid Sawers.
    • Beyond Twilight: Music for Cello & Piano by Female Composers.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 2.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Gaite parisienne: Vivo - Barcarolle

    Music Arranger: Manuel Rosenthal. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • DG.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quartet in A major K464; 2. Minuet & Trio

    Ensemble: Quatuor Voce.

  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Ave dulcissima Maria

    Ensemble: The Marian Ensemble. Director: Rory McCleery.
    • Delphian.

  • FRIDAY POEM

    A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost, read by Manon Edwards

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Spring, Op.34

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.

  • John Wilbye

    Sweet Honey-Sucking Bees / Yet, Sweet, Take Heed

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • John Wilbye: Draw On Sweet Night.
    • CORO.
    • 4.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.5 in E minor Op.64 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.
    • Beethoven · Tchaikovsky · Schmidt · Stephan.
    • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 304.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Valse nonchalante Op.110

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Erato.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture Op.80

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Symphonie Concertante in C Major, Op. 9 No. 1: I. Allegro

    Performer: Yury Revich. Performer: Libor Ježek. Conductor: Michael Halász. Orchestra: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice.
    • Saint-Georges: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.

  • Thomas Farnon

    Mammals Suite

    Ensemble: Studio Orchestra.
    • Mammals.
    • chromium music.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of Youth, Suite No. 2, Op. 1b: VI. The Wild Bears

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • The London Recordings.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 606.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pavane

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SFS Media.

  • Ayanna Witter-Johnson

    Windrush reflections; I. Mango Dreams

    Ensemble: The Dionysus Ensemble.
    • The Dionysus Ensemble.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    William Tell (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Rossini: Overtures: Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.92 in G major 'Oxford' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: René Jacobs. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 91 & 92: Rene Jacobs.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.

Broadcast

  • Fri 10 May 202406:30
    BBC Radio 3