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Ease into the day with classical music

Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning.

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Mon 5 Aug 202406:30
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Music Played

  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Requiem Mass for 6 voices (Requiem aeternam)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Director: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Nocturne, Op. 165

    Performer: Emmanuel Despax.
    • Signum.

  • Herbert Howells

    Three dances for violin and orchestra, Op 7 (No 2 - Quasi lento, quieto)

    Performer: Malcolm Stewart. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Herbert Howells: Piano concerto no.2, Concerto for strings, Three Dances.
    • Hyperion.
    • 005.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for keyboard in D minor BWV.1052 ; 3. Allegro

    Performer: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas. Ensemble: La Tempête. Director: Simon‐Pierre Bestion.
    • ALPHA CLASSICS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.101 in D major 'Clock' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Pierre Monteux.
    • Decca.

  • Sir James MacMillan

    O Radiant Dawn

    Choir: Apollo5.
    • VCM RECORDS.

  • John Dowland

    Fantasia in G major P.1

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Delphian.

  • Grace Williams

    Calm Sea in Summer (Sea Sketches)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: David Atherton.
    • Grace Williams: Fantasia On Welsh Nursery Tunes, Carillons, Penillion, Trumpet C.
    • Lyrita.
    • 17.

  • Trad.

    Brigg Fair

    Performer: Martin Carthy.
    • TOPIC.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le tombeau de Couperin (Prelude)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Boulez conducts Debusy and Ravel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor Op.2 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Chandos.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Beethoven: The Piano Concertos: Zimerman/Wiener Philharmoniker/Bernstein.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 5 in B flat major, K 22 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin: Act I Prelude

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Marek Janowski.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Konzertstück in F Minor, Op. 79, J. 282: Allegro passionato

    Performer: Ronald Brautigam. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens. Orchestra: Die Kölner Akademie.
    • Weber: Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra.
    • BIS.
    • 302.

  • Hans Gál

    Cello Concerto, op.67 (2nd mvt 'Andante')

    Performer: Antônio Meneses. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Cláudio Cruz.
    • Gal - Elgar: Cello Concertos.
    • Avie.
    • 2.

  • James Oswald

    The Golden Rod (Airs for the Seasons - Winter)

    Ensemble: The Broadside Band. Performer: Matthew Dixon. Director: Jeremy Barlow.
    • Oswald: Airs for the Seasons.
    • Dorian.
    • 9-11.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jennifer Pike. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos CHSA 5161.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Grande Polonaise in E flat, Op 22

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet no.2 in D major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Borodin Quartet.
    • Borodin: String Quartets Nos. 1&2: Borodin Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Leos Janáček

    Sokol Fanfare (Sinfonietta)

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jonathan Nott.
    • Janacek: Sinfonietta: Bamberger Symphoniker/Nott.
    • Tudor.
    • 1.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Scherzo capriccioso Op.66

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: István Kertész.
    • Decca.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Romance in B flat major for violin and piano, Op 28

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Florent Boffard.
    • Faure: Violin sonatas: Isabelle Faust/Florent Boffard.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet for strings (Op.20) in E flat major - iii. Scherzo

    Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.
    • DG.

  • Duke Ellington

    Things Ain't What They Used to Be

    Performer: Steven Osborne.

  • Thomas Tallis

    O nata lux de lumine

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O’Donnell.
    • HYPERION.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Sinfonia, 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' (Solomon)

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Pachelbel/Handel/Vivaldi/Gluck: Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Mon 5 Aug 202406:30
    BBC Radio 3