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Wake up with classical music

Emma Clarke presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. You can contact the show by emailing [email protected].

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Sat 6 Sep 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Ernest Tomlinson

    Little Serenade

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • The British Light Music Classics Series: The New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.
    • 015.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for 4 Harpsichords in A Minor, BWV 1065 (Transcr. for Piano by Florian

    Performer: Florian Noack. Music Arranger: Florian Noack.
    • I Wanna Be Like You.
    • La Dolce Volta.
    • 3.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O Virtus Sapientie

    Director: Stevie Wishart. Ensemble: Sinfonye.
    • Hildegard (Hildegard Von Bingen).
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 5.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphonic Dance, Op 64 No 2 (Allegretto grazioso)

    Orchestra: Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.
    • Edvard Grieg : Symphony, Symphonic Dances.
    • Fazer Records/Finlandia.
    • 6.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Valley of the Bells

    Orchestra: Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Ravel: Valley of the Bells, Jeux d'eau, Rapsodie espagnole, Le gibet, et al..
    • Cala Records.
    • 1.

  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • The Grainger Edition, Vol.2 - Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Fugue; Air

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Kenneth Sillito.
    • CAPRICCIO.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Eight Short Pieces, Op. 99, No. 3: III. Souvenir

    Lyricist: Paul Struck. Conductor: Alexander Gilman.
    • Nordic Dream.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 6.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Wedding-cake Op.76

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Hyperion.

  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    And birds are still... Op.72

    Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • Chandos.

  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Trumpet Concerto in D major

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
    • Wynton Marsalis: Baroque Music for Trumpet.
    • Sony.
    • 1-3.

  • Claude Debussy

    La fille aux cheveux de lin

    Performer: Alexandra Whittingham.
    • Decca.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in F major, K 138

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Jane Glover.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.

  • George Gershwin

    Someone to Watch Over Me

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Manhattan: Music from the Woody Allen Film.
    • CBS.
    • 003.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Shostakovich: The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97a: Romance

    Performer: Nemanja Radulović. Conductor: Michail Jurowski. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin.
    • Journey East.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 8.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Le roi malgré lui: Danse slave (The King in Spite of Himself)

    Conductor: Hervé Niquet. Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 2xHD.

  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    A Sparrow Alighted upon our Shoulder

    Orchestra: Air Lyndhurst String Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Weeden.
    • Orphée.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Marin Marais

    La Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont de Paris

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Rolf Lislevand. Performer: Pierre Hantaï.
    • Auvidis.

  • Jessica Curry

    Communion

    Choir: London Voices. Conductor: Ben Parry.
    • NOT ON LABEL SELF RELEASED.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in E major Kk.206

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Murray Perahia plays Handel and Scarlatti.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 22.

  • Bohuslav Martinů

    Le Jazz

    Choir: Sbor Lubomíra Pánka. Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Zbyněk Vostřák.
    • Supraphon.

Broadcast

  • Sat 6 Sep 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3