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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. Email your requests to [email protected]

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Wed 8 May 202406:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cantique de Jean Racine

    Choir: Accentus. Ensemble: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Naive.

  • Geoffrey Bush

    Consort Music

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd‐Jones.
    • Naxos.

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Opachi boschetti BuxWV.121 (Gigue)

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
    • CHALLENGE CLASSICS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Art of Fugue, BWV.1080 (Contrapunctus XIV)

    Performer: Zhu Xiao-Mei.
    • ACCENTUS.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    3 Mazurkas Op.59 (no.2 in A flat major)

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • DG.

  • Salamone Rossi

    Hashirim asher lish'lomo - Lamnatseah 'al hagitit

    Choir: Profeti della Quinta.
    • PAN.

  • Isidoro Rossi

    Primo indirizzo artistico (II and III)

    Ensemble: Adami Clarinet Quartet.
    • Rare Italian Clarinet Chamber Music of the 19th Century.
    • Centaur.
    • 12-13.

  • Max Reger

    'Das Sternlein' (no. 2 from Sechs ausgewählte Volkslieder, WoO VI/10)

    Choir: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • Melancholy: Max Regar Vocal Works.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.

  • Florence Price

    Suite No.1 for Organ (IV. Toccato)

    Performer: Alexander Ffinch.
    • Parallels.
    • Divine Art.
    • 5.

  • César Franck

    Violin Sonata in A major, FWV 8 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Erato.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No.6

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Brahms - Symphony No.2, etc..
    • BIS.
    • 015.

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Danza for piano, Op 33

    Performer: Philip Martin.
    • Gottschalk Piano Music - Philip Martin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Edmar Fenicio

    Choro Melancólico

    Ensemble: Grupo Nosso Choro.
    • Primeira Classe.
    • Kuarup Music.
    • 9.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Quartet in G major Op.77 No.1 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Hyperion.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Choir: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Bach - Motets.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd,Naxos Music UK Ltd.
    • 17.

  • Mary Lou Williams

    Walkin' and Swingin'

    Performer: Mary Lou Williams.
    • ASV.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in C minor Op.1 No.3; 4th mvt - Finale (prestissimo)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.
    • Beethoven for 3 Vol. 2.
    • SONY.
    • 9.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Der sad en fisker sa tankefuld

    Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Michael Bojesen.
    • DACAPO.

  • George Gershwin

    Variations on I got rhythm

    Performer: Lincoln Mayorga. Ensemble: Harmonie Ensemble New York. Conductor: Steven Richman.
    • Gershwin by Grofe: Harmonie Ensemble, New York.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo all turca arr for brass

    Music Arranger: Arthur Frackenpohl. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • Best of The Canadian Brass.
    • CBS.
    • 9.

  • George Enescu

    Romanian rhapsody no. 1 in A major Op.11`1

    Orchestra: MDR Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Kristjan Järvi.
    • The Kristjan Järvi Sound Project - Balkan Fever.
    • Naive.
    • 1.

  • Traditional Romanian

    Doina and Hora

    Performer: Tcha Limberger. Performer: Janos Dani. Performer: Vilmos Csikòs. Performer: Gyula Csík. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIAVOX.

  • François Couperin

    Soeur Monique (Pièces de clavecin, Ordre no.18)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Couperin: Keyboard Music 1: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio Sonata in G major, HWV.384

    Ensemble: Convivium.
    • Handel, Trio Sonatas for Oboe and Violin: Convivium.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat major D.899 no.4

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • William Walton

    'Spitfire' Prelude and Fugue

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Les chemins de l'amour

    Singer: Felicity Lott. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Poulenc: Voyage a Paris: Felicity Lott/Graham Johnson.
    • Helios.
    • 30.

  • Carl Stamitz

    Clarinet Concerto No. 8 in B Flat Major: III. Rondeau

    Orchestra: Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester. Conductor: Paul Meyer.
    • Carl Stamitz: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1, 6 & 8.
    • CPO.
    • 303.

Broadcast

  • Wed 8 May 202406:30
    BBC Radio 3