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Wake up your senses 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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Thu 28 Aug 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in B minor for 4 violins and cello, RV 580 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Vivaldi: La Viole de gambe in Concerto: Savall.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Piano Quintet No.1 in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • Farrenc: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2.
    • CPO.
    • 2.

  • Hubert Parry

    Songs of Farewell: VI. Lord, let me know mine end

    Conductor: Anne Heider. Choir: His Majestie's Clerkes.
    • Hear My Prayer - Choral Music Of The English Romantics.
    • Cedille.
    • 14.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1053 (1st mvt.)

    Performer: Beatrice Rana. Orchestra: Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
    • Bach: Keyboard Concertos, BWV 1052, 1053, 1054 & 1056.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G major, K 525, 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Concentus Musicus Wien/Harnoncourt.
    • Teldec.
    • 4.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 "From the New World" (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Signum Classics.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Tambourin chinois

    Performer: Charlie Siem. Performer: Itamar Golan.
    • Between The Clouds.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 3.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Mother Goose Suite; 7. The Fairy Garden

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Ravel: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in B flat major, D 935 No 3

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Schubert: Impromptus D 899 & D935: Perahia.
    • Sony.
    • 7.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Almira - Suite (Overture)

    Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Francesco Corti.
    • Handel: Apollo e Dafne & Armida abbandonata.
    • Pentatone.
    • 29-34.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Alison Balsom.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Gerardo Matos Rodríguez

    La Cumparsita

    Music Arranger: Stephen Goss. Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • Milos Karadaglic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite, Op. 40: 3rd mvt Gavotte (Allegretto)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Grieg: Holberg Suite; Lyric Suite.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Jonathan Dove

    Seek Him that Maketh the Seven Stars

    Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Performer: Glen Dempsey. Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Locus Iste.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 701.

  • William Herschel

    Symphony No.13 in D major

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    L'Orfeo (Toccata)

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Naive.

  • Ronald Binge

    Elizabethan Serenade

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • HYPERION.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in F minor K 185

    Performer: Javier Perianes.

  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne

    Violin concerto in A major Op.5`2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Takako Nishizaki. Orchestra: Kölner Kammerorchester. Conductor: Helmut Müller‐Brühl.
    • Saint-Georges: Violin Concertos.
    • NAXOS.
    • 6.

  • Henry Litolff

    Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 47: IV. Finale. Presto

    Ensemble: Leonore Piano Trio.
    • Litolff: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op 67 (3rd & 4th mvts)

    Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies: Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska.
    • BIS.
    • 7.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux Aurumque

    Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Director: Anna Lapwood.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120 No. 1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jörg Widmann. Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • ECM.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 2, Op. 64ter: V. Romeo and Juliet Before Parting

    Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Elim Chan.
    • All These Lighted Things.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Thu 28 Aug 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3