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Ease into the day with classical music

Hannah French presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Sat 29 Nov 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    String Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 51 No. 1: II. Romanze. Poco adagio

    Ensemble: Zehetmair Quartett.
    • Brahms: String Quartets, Op. 51 Nos. 1 & 2.
    • ECM New Series.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux aurumque

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Serenade for Winds in D Minor, Op. 44, B. 77: IV. Finale. Allegro molto

    Orchestra: Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Warren‐Green.
    • Dvořák: Serenades.
    • Chandos.
    • 109.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.118 'O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht'

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J.S. Bach: Cantatas BWV 106; 118/231; 198.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 5.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (Version for Piano 4 Hands): I. Morning Mood

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    String Quartet No. 18 in E Minor, A. 482: IV - Allegro Giusto

    Ensemble: Quartetto Mitja.
    • Urania.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K414: III. Rondeau. Allegretto

    Performer: Saskia Giorgini. Ensemble: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Pentatone.

  • Henriëtte Bosmans

    Cello Sonata in A Minor: II. Un poco allegretto

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Julian Riem.
    • Fortissima.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Zadok the Priest HWV.258

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Hervé Niquet.
    • ALPHA.

  • Ignacio de Jerusalem y Stella

    Rompa la Esfera

    Performer: Cologne Academy. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.
    • CPO.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Montgomery Variations: III. March

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Kellen Gray.
    • African American Voices II.
    • Linn Records.
    • 03.

  • Juan de Araujo

    Ay Andar

    Choir: Ex Cathedra Choir. Director: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Moon, Sun & All Things: Baroque Music from Latin America: Ex Cathedra, Skidmore.
    • Hyperion.

  • Miska Borzó

    Isteni Csárdás

    Music Arranger: Ben Harlan. Music Arranger: Iris Pissaride. Music Arranger: Jon Banks. Music Arranger: Matthew Sharp. Music Arranger: Max Baillie. Ensemble: ZRI.
    • Cellar Sessions.
    • First Hand Records.
    • 10.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in B flat major, Op 23 No 2

    Performer: Boris Giltburg.
    • Rachmaninov - 24 Preludes.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique Op.14 (Un Bal)

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 102.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Capriccio, FP 155 (After Le bal masqué, FP 60)

    Performer: Katya Apekisheva. Performer: Charles Owen.
    • Poulenc, Debussy & Milhaud: Works for 2 Pianos.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 104.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Ma Vlast, JB1:112: II. Vltava

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Smetana: Ma Vlast.
    • Pentatone.
    • 2.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Dance of the tumblers (Snow maiden - suite)

    Music Arranger: WIlfred Heaton. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Leos Janáček

    Violin Sonata, JW VII/7: IV. Adagio

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Fazil Say.
    • Janáček - Brahms - Bartók.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 4.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Sea Drift, Op. 69

    Composer: Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Choir: London Choral Sinfonia. Conductor: Michael Waldron.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Choral Works.
    • Orchid Music Limited.
    • 1.

  • Mateo Flecha

    El Toro

    Ensemble: Cantoria.
    • Ambronay.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Bacchanale (Samson et Dalila)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Discoveries.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Sat 29 Nov 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3