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Daybreak classics

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

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Tue 7 May 202406:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in C sharp minor, Op.64 no.2

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: The Complete Walzes: Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Josef Suk

    Serenade in E flat major, Op.6 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Suk: Fairy Tale etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 94 "Surprise" (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ádám Fischer.
    • Haydn: Symphony No. 94 "The Surprise": II. Andante.
    • NAXOS.
    • 101.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001 Mvts 2-4

    Performer: Frank Peter Zimmermann.
    • Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2.
    • BIS.
    • 101.

  • Edvard Grieg

    The Last Spring (2 Elegiac Melodies)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Grieg & Tchaikovsky: Music for String Orchestra.
    • DG.
    • 7.

  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Love endureth

    Choir: VOCES8. Director: Barnaby Smith.
    • PANUFNIK, R.: Love Abide.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A Major K.581 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.
    • Mozart & Weber Quintets.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
    • 5.

  • Montague Phillips

    Revelry Overture, Op 62

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Montague Phillips: Symphony in C Etc..
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 1.

  • François Couperin

    Les Barricades Mystérieuses

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett.
    • La Danse.
    • Warner Music UK Limited.
    • 2.

  • Giovanni Benedetto Platti

    Cello Sonata No. 7 in D Major, I. 84: IV. Presto

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Performer: Kadialy Kouyate. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: Fred Thomas.
    • Where is Home / Hae ke Kae.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • Alberto Ginastera

    Argentine Dance no.2

    Music Arranger: Leo Popplewell. Ensemble: Mithras Trio.

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Symphony in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Chandos.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat major Op.19 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Beethoven Complete Piano Concertos Lewis - Belohlavek.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 6.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Take, O Take Those Lips Away

    Orchestrator: Roderick Williams. Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • A Shropshire Lad: English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 18.

  • Woldemar Bargiel

    Octet in C minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Amane Horie. Performer: Yume Sato. Performer: Julia Rebekka Adler. Performer: Eva Freitag. Ensemble: Orpheus Quartet.
    • Bargiel: String Quartets Nos. 1-4 & String Octet.
    • CPO.
    • 202.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Atys, LWV 53, Prologue: Ouverture

    Orchestra: Les Talens Lyriques. Conductor: Christophe Rousset.
    • Lully: Atys.
    • Château de Versailles Spectacles.
    • 1.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Flight of the Bumblebee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Donald Hunsberger.
    • SONY.

  • Harold Arlen

    A Sleepin' Bee

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Performer: André Previn. Performer: David Finck.
    • Philips.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87: IV. Finale. Allegro giocoso

    Ensemble: Trio Isimsiz.
    • Brahms, Coll, Korngold.
    • Rubicon.
    • 12.

  • Anne Dudley

    Suite from Poldark

    Orchestra: The Chamber Orchestra of London. Conductor: Anne Dudley.
    • Poldark - The Ultimate Collection (Music from TV Series 1-5).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Osculetur me osculo oris sui

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Palestrina Volume 2.
    • CORO.
    • 12.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Marche slave, Op 31

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Tchaikovsky: 1812/Capriccio italien/March Slave: Chicago SO/Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Double Violin Concerto in D minor BWV.1043 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Cecilia Bernardini. Performer: Huw Daniel. Orchestra: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • LINN.

  • Franz Schubert

    Moments musicaux, D 780 (No 3 in F minor)

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Waft her, Angels (Jephtha)

    Singer: Mark Padmore. Ensemble: The English Concert. Director: Andrew Manze.
    • Handel Arias - Padmore / The English Concert / Manze.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 017.

  • Elfrida Andrée

    Symphony No 2 in A minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Stockholm Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustaf Sjökvist.
    • STERLING.

Broadcast

  • Tue 7 May 202406:30
    BBC Radio 3