Embrace the morning calm of classical music and birdsong
Emma Clarke presents Radio 3's Breakfast show.
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Emma Clarke presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. This morning's dawn chorus features the rock pipit, with brand new music from South African cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe, and there's a quiet moment with a stunning arrangement of Vaugh Williams' Lark Ascending, along with romance of one of Puccini's most famous arias.
To get in touch, email [email protected]
To listen on most smart speakers, just say 'Ask BBC Sounds to play 3 Breakfast’
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Amy Beach
Romance, Op. 23
Performer: Himari. Performer: Chelsea Wang.- Beach: Romance, Op. 23.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 1.
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Pietro Locatelli
Introduzione teatrale in D Major, Op. 4 No. 1
Music Arranger: Jelte Althuis. Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet.- Hidden Gems.
- PENTATONE.
- 101.
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Abel Selaocoe
Tsohle Tsohle
Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Performer: Bernhard Schimpelsberger. Orchestrator: Benjamin Woodgates. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.- Four Spirits.
- Warner Classics.
- 1.
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Claude Debussy
Arabesque no.1 in E major
Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.- Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.3: Bavouzet.
- Chandos.
- 7.
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Luigi Boccherini
Symphony No.8 in A major; 3rd mvt Minuetto con molto & Trio
Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.- Contemporaries of Mozart.
- CHANDOS.
- 07.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Performer: Elena Urioste. Music Arranger: Paul Drayton. Lyricist: George Meredith. Lyricist: George Meredith. Choir: London Choral Sinfonia. Choir: London Choral Sinfonia. Conductor: Michael Waldron. Conductor: Michael Waldron.- Colourise.
- Orchid Classics.
- 501.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Little Polka (Jazz Suite No.2)
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Shostakovich: Jazz Music.
- Decca.
- 12.
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Sylvius Leopold Weiss
Sonata No. 33 in F Major: Fantasia; Allemande
Performer: Evangelina Mascardi.- Weiss: Selected Works for Lute.
- ARCANA.
- 19.
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Giacomo Puccini
Che gelida manina (La bohème)
Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marco Armiliato.- Jonas Kaufmann: Romantic Arias.
- Decca.
- 1.
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William Grant Still
Animal Sketches: Horse; Camel; Lamb
Performer: Elizabeth Hill.- Arise and Shine.
- Navona Records.
- 20.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
Overture in C major
Orchestra: The Women’s Philharmonic. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.- Koch.
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Francis Poulenc
Carillon (Suite française)
Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Performer: John York.- ASV.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48, TH 48: II. Valse
Ensemble: United Strings of Europe. Director: Julian Azkoul.- Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Souvenir de Florence, Andante Cantabile.
- BIS.
- 2.
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Gioachino Rossini
La Danza (Les Soirees musicales)
Music Arranger: Erich Schagerl. Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Daniel Ottensamer. Performer: Ernst Ottensamer. Ensemble: Vienna Virtuosi.- The Clarinotts.
- DG.
- 6.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Young Prince and Princess (Sheherazade)
Performer: Elise Båtnes. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.- Lawo.
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Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio in C major H.15.21 (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Trio Wanderer.- Haydn: Piano Trios, HOB. XV:14, 18, 21, 26 & 31.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 109.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid, BWV 3: Chorale "Erhalt mein Herz im Glauben rei
Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.- Bach: Chorale "Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid".
- Warner Classics.
- 1.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen, BWV 259 (arr. for string quartet)
- Bach: Chorale "Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen".
- Warner Classics.
- 1.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Christus ist erstanden, hat überwunden, BWV 284 (arr. for string quartet)
Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.- Bach: Chorale "Christus ist erstanden, hat überwunden".
- Warner Classics.
- 1.
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Avril Coleridge-Taylor
Who knows?
Performer: Alexandra Mackenzie. Performer: Ingrid Sawers.- Beyond Twilight: Music for Cello & Piano by Female Composers.
- Delphian Records.
- 2.
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María Teresa Prieto
El palo verde: III. Scherzino
Orchestra: Cordoba Orchestra. Conductor: José Luis Temes.- Verso.
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Fanny Hünerwadel
Introductions, Variations et Rondo
Performer: Adalberto Maria Riva.- Femmes Compositrices: Martines - Szymanowska - Hünerwadel - Schumann - Cambiasi.
- Cascavelle.
- 5.
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Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dance in A flat major Op.46 no.3
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Václav Neumann.- Dvorak: 16 Slavonic Dances: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Neumann.
- Apex.
- 3.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice: "Che farò senza Euridice"
Singer: Jakub Józef Orliński. Orchestra: Il Giardino d'Amore. Conductor: Stefan Plewniak.- Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30.
- ERATO.
- 22.
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Germaine Tailleferre
Harp Sonata (2nd mvmt, Lento)
Performer: Maria Graf.- Harp Recital.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 7.
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Astor Piazzolla
Libertango
Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Clark Rundell.- Piazzolla Reflections.
- Alpha Classics.
- 15.
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- Sun 27 Jul 202506:30BBC Radio 3
