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Start the day strong 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 16 May 202606:30
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Music Played

  • Andrea Falconieri

    Canciona dicha la preciosa

    Performer: Amandine Beyer. Performer: Michael Oman. Ensemble: Austrian Baroque Company.
    • London Calling.
    • Fra Bernardo.
    • 03.

  • Jean Sibelius

    2 Serenades Op.69 (no.1 in D major)

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: André Previn.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Clara Schumann

    Soirées Musicales, op. 6: No. 2, Notturno

    Performer: Fiona Mato.
    • An Invitation at the Schumanns'.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: I. Kyrie eleison (Chorus)

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker - ballet Op.71 : Act 2, no.13; Waltz of the flowers

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Decca.

  • Samuel Dushkin

    Sicilienne

    Composer: Maria Theresia von Paradis. Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • The Lyrical Clarinet Vol 3.
    • Chandos.
    • 04.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 52 in C Minor, Hob. I:52: I. Allegro assai con brio

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn2032, Vol. 19: Trauer.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.4 in B flat major Op.60 (4th mvt)

    Music Arranger: Shai Wosner. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97 \"Archduke\".
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Johannes Brahms

    21 Hungarian dances: No. 8 in A minor

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Brahms: Hungarian Dances.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Nisi Dominus (Vespers)

    Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Raphaël Pichon.
    • Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.

  • Anton Stepanovich Arensky

    Piano Concerto in F Minor, Op. 2: II. Andante con moto

    Performer: Stephen Coombs. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • Arensky & Bortkiewicz: Piano Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 4).
    • Hyperion.

  • Phil Cunningham

    Loch Katrine's Lady

    Performer: Ryan Corbett. Music Arranger: Ryan Corbett. Music Arranger: Ryan Corbett.

  • Ferdinand Hérold

    Fille mal gardée - Clog Dance

    Music Arranger: John Lanchbery. Orchestra: Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dario Salvi.
    • Naxos.

  • Marc‐Antoine Charpentier

    Te Deum (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Guerre et Paix.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 22.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    La clemenza di Tito: Act I: Sinfonia

    Ensemble: l’arte del mondo. Conductor: Werner Ehrhardt.
    • Gluck: La clemenza di Tito.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.

  • Francesco Maria Veracini

    Sonate accademiche in A Major, Op. 2, No. 9

    Performer: Bjarte Eike. Performer: Thomas Pitt. Performer: Fredrik Bock. Performer: Allan Rasmussen.
    • London Calling.
    • BIS.
    • 601.

  • Louise Héritte-Viardot

    Piano Quartet No 1 in A major, 'In Summer' (2nd mvt, Flies and Butterflies)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Suite for Jazz Band No 1 (Foxtrot)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Shostakovich: Hypothetically Murdered etc.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 33.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Suite No. 2 in C Major, Op. 17: II. Valse. Presto

    Performer: Gabriela Montero. Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Music for Two Pianos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Der Hölle Rache (from The Magic Flute) arr. for brass

    Music Arranger: Howard Cable. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • Best of The Canadian Brass.
    • CBS.
    • 7.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Straussiana

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Korngold - Symphony in F sharp.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act I: Chorus. Oh, the Pleasure of the Plains!

    Lyricist: John Gay. Singer: Lucy Crowe. Singer: Rowan Pierce. Singer: Allan Clayton. Singer: Benjamin Hulett. Singer: Jeremy Budd. Singer: Neal Davies. Orchestra: Early Opera Company. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.
    • Handel: Acis and Galatea.
    • Chandos.
    • 102.

Broadcast

  • Sat 16 May 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3