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Perk up your morning with classical music

Hannah French presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning.

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Mon 9 Sep 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • John Eccles

    Ground: Aire (The Mad Lover Suite)

    Performer: Th茅otime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • The Mad Lover.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.
  • Edwin York Bowen

    R锚verie d'amour, Op.20`2

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.
  • William Lloyd Webber

    The Gardens at Eastwell - "A Late Summer Impression"

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Music Arranger: Dimitri Soudoplatoff. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Elgar: Violin Concerto, Op. 61.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV.225

    Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Phi.
  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite for brass band, no.3; Minuet

    Performer: Cory Band. Conductor: Philip Harper.
    • Landscapes.
    • DOYEN.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Fantasia in C major H.17.4

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • WARNER.
  • Henry Purcell

    O! Fair Cedaria

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: Toby Carr. Lyricist: Anonymous. Singer: Nicholas Mulroy.
    • De Pasi贸n Mortal: Songs from Two Golden Ages.
    • Linn Records.
    • 3.
  • Nicolas Gombert

    La rose (Chanson)

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • La morte della Ragione.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 18.
  • Alastair Savage

    When the Sun Shines over Brodick

    Performer: Alastair Savage. Performer: Alice Allen.
    • Where the Good Ship Lands.
    • WOODLAND RECORDS.
    • 03.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    March: Seventeen come Sunday

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • DECCA.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Reflets

    Performer: Tristan Ra毛s. Singer: Cyrille Dubois.
    • Lili et Nadia Boulanger: M茅lodies.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
    • 112.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 3 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Beethoven : Piano Concertos Nos 1 - 5.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 9.
  • Jacques Ibert

    3 Pieces breves

    Performer: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Philipp Jakob Rittler

    Ciaccona a 7

    Performer: Josh Cohen. Orchestra: Ensemble Sprezzatura. Conductor: Daniel Abraham.
    • Altissima - works for high baroque trumpet.
    • Chandos.
    • 22.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: 成人论坛 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Glinka: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio No. 2 in E-Flat (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff. Performer: Lars Vogt.
    • Schubert: Chamber Works.
    • Ondine.
    • 8.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No.2 in D minor

    Orchestrator: Iv谩n Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Brahms: Hungarian Dances.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Horn Concerto, Op.58 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite.
    • British Horn Concertos: Jacob/Arnold/Bowen/Gipps/Vinter.
    • Lyrita.
    • 11.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto/Octet: James Ehnes.
    • Onyx.
    • 3.
  • Thomas Morley

    O mistress mine

    Performer: Desmond Dupr茅. Singer: Alfred Deller.
    • EMI.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Emperor Waltz

    Performer: Wolfgang Schulz. Performer: Ernst Ottensamer. Performer: Heinz Medjimorec. Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Alban Berg Quartett.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Art Tatum

    A Foggy Day

    • The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Vol. 7.
    • Pablo.
    • 5.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Maurice Ravel: Ma M猫re L鈥檕ye; Bol茅ro; Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales; Pavane Pou.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Traditional Spiritual

    Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen

    Music Arranger: Norman Luboff. Choir: Jason Max Ferdinand Singers. Conductor: Jason Max Ferdinand.
    • Solace.
    • GIA ChoralWorks.
    • 7.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Cello Sonata in G minor Op.19 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Decca.
  • Claude Debussy

    Feux d'artifice (Preludes, Book 2)

    Orchestrator: Colin Matthews. Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • 贬补濒濒茅.
  • Grigoras Dinicu

    Hora Staccato

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Emilia Kopatchinskaja. Performer: Viktor Kopatchinsky. Performer: Martin Gjakonovski. Performer: Mihaela Ursuleasa.
    • Rapsodia.
    • Naive.
    • 18.

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