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Boost your morning with classical music

Hannah French presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. With birdsong, Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing [email protected]

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Tue 26 Aug 202506:30
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Music Played

  • William Byrd

    Prelude and ground à 5

    Ensemble: Newberry Consort. Director: Mary Springfels.
    • A Candle in the Dark: The Newberry Consort.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 18 in F Major, K. 130: II. Andante grazioso

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Mozart: The Symphonies.
    • Archiv Produktion.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Khovanshchina (Prelude [Dawn over the Moscow River])

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Accentus Music.

  • Craig Armstrong

    Balcony Scene (From "Romeo & Juliet")

    Orchestra: Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein, No. 4, BWV 734

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.
    • Songs Without Words.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello

    Overture-Suite in D Major (Ciaccona)

    Orchestra: La Serenissima. Conductor: Adrian Chandler.
    • Forza azzurri! Music by Dall’abaco, Brescianello, Sammartini, Vivaldi and Zavate.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 24.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    'Raindrop' Prelude in D flat major (24 Preludes Op.28)

    Performer: Alexandra Dariescu.
    • Prelude Chopin: Alexandra Dariescu.
    • Champs Hill.
    • 15.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pastorale

    Performer: Branford Marsalis. Music Arranger: Michel Colombier. Conductor: Andrew Litton. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Romances For Saxophone.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 80: II. Andante semplice - And

    Performer: Anthony Marwood. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Coleridge-Taylor & Somervell: Violin Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Violin Concert.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Leos Janáček

    Sokol Fanfare (Sinfonietta)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Great Orchestral Showpieces, Vol.1.
    • Philips.
    • 1.

  • Hamish MacCunn

    The Land of the Mountain and the Flood (Overture)

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • MacCunn - Land of the Mountain and the Flood.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.

  • Franz Liszt

    Les Jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este (Années de pèlerinage (3eme annee)

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Le temps perdu.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 12.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Violin Concerto in A Major, TWV 51:A4 \"Die Relinge\": I. Allegro

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Bernhard Forck.
    • Telemann: Violin Concerto in A Major, TWV 51:A4 \"Die Relinge\": I. Allegro.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Florence Price

    Colonial Dance

    Orchestra: Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Price: Songs of the Oak.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88, B. 163: IV. Allegro

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 7, 8 ,9.
    • Pentatone.
    • 8.

  • George Frideric Handel

    The many rend the skies (Alexander's Feast, HWV 75)

    Choir: Bach Choir. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: David Hill.
    • BIS.

  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Dance of the Paper Umbrellas

    Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Northey.
    • The Elena Kats-Chernin Collection.
    • Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
    • 84.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No.1 in C Major Op.21, 1st Movement

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • Sony.

  • Giulio Caccini

    Ave Maria

    Singer: Inese Galante. Orchestra: Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Aleksandrs Viļumanis.
    • Debut.
    • Campion.
    • 8.

  • Ferdinando Antonia Lazzari

    Sonata a 6 in D major

    Performer: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.
    • The fam'd Italian Masters: Parley of Instruments/Holman.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • George Gershwin

    Rhapsody in Blue

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein.
    • Rhapsody.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 33.

  • Trad.

    Walking in the Woods

    Author: Hans Christian Andersen. Ensemble: Danish National Vocal Ensemble. Director: Bo Holten.
    • Arstiderne.
    • OUR RECORDINGS.
    • 1.

  • George Butterworth

    English Idyll No 2

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Krišs Russman.
    • Butterworth: Orchestral Works & Works for Voice & Orchestra.
    • BIS.
    • 10.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, H VIIe 1 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Maurice André. Ensemble: Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra. Director: János Rolla.
    • Haydn/Hertel/Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Andre/Rolla.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Tue 26 Aug 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3