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Boost your Boxing Day morning with classical

Hannah French presents a Boxing Day edition of Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

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Music Played

  • 罢谤盲诲

    Good King Wenceslas

    Performer: [no artist].
    • Enchanted Carols.
    • SAYDISC.
    • 9.

  • Sir Stephen Hough

    Musical Jewellery Box

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's New Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Guitar Quintet no. 4 (Pastorale)

    Performer: Johan L枚fving. Ensemble: Consone Quartet.
    • Fandango! Music for Solo Guitar and String Quartet.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 8.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata 121: Christum wir sollen loben schon

    Conductor: Collegium Vocale Gent. Singer: Dorothee Mields. Singer: Ingeborg Danz. Singer: Mark Padmore. Singer: Peter Kooij. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • J.S. Bach: Christmas Cantatas in Leipzig.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 10.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op.64`5 'The Lark' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • AVI MUSIC.

  • Anonymous

    The Little Turtle Dove

    Singer: Ian Bostridge.
    • The English Songbook.
    • EMI.
    • 24.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Geme la torterella (La finta giardiniera)

    Music Arranger: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn; Bach: Cello Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Barcarolle, Op.60

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.

  • Pietro Mascagni

    Intermezzo (Cavalleria rusticana)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • 100 Best Relaxing Classics.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 17.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Rigaudon (Holberg Suite)

    Performer: Ryan Corbett.

  • Peter Warlock

    Bethlehem Down

    Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Director: Robert Quinney.
    • Nowell Sing We!.
    • Novum.
    • 12.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 5 'Emperor' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • DG.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet, Op.38 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Philippe Bernold. Performer: Fran莽ois Leleux. Performer: Romain Guyot. Performer: Andr茅 Cazalet. Performer: Gilbert Audin. Performer: Guillaume Sutre. Performer: Miguel da Silva. Performer: Fran莽ois Salque. Performer: Vincent Pasquier.
    • NAIVE.

  • Django Reinhardt

    Minor Swing

    Composer: St茅phane Grappelli. Ensemble: Quintette du Hot Club de France.
    • WARNER BROS RECORDS.

  • Jr. John Henry Hopkins

    We Three Kings

    Singer: Mario Lanza. Choir: The Jeff Alexander Chorus. Conductor: Ray Sinatra.
    • RCA.

  • Alessandro Marcello

    Concerto in D minor for oboe and strings

    Performer: Katharina Spreckelsen. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.
    • Dall'Abaco, Porpora, Marcello, Tartini & Telemann: Concertos.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 10-12.

  • Laima Jansone

    Pavasara Gr墨slis

    Performer: Laima Jansone.
    • Lauska.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Jeux d'eau

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • HYPERION.

  • Lorne Balfe

    Good Morning Gromit

    Composer: Jeremy Earnest.
    • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Masterworks.
    • 2.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Wiener Blut

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • J. Strauss: Waltzes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • The Beatles

    Good King Wenceslas

    • Apple Records.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Legend in F major, Op 59 No 8

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • ELOQUENCE.

  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Melodrama de Sancto Wenceslao (Symphonia)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Philidor. Ensemble: Musica Florea. Ensemble: Musica Aeterna. Conductor: Marek 艩tryncl.
    • SUPRAPHON.

  • Franz Schubert

    Trout Quintet (Theme and Variations)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet. Performer: Thomas Ad猫s. Performer: Corin Long.
    • Ades, Schubert: Piano Quintets: Ades.
    • EMI Classics.

  • William Byrd

    Lullaby, my sweet little I. baby

    Performer: Martin Bauer. Performer: Liam Fennelly. Conductor: Geoffroy Jourdain.
    • Melancholia.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 110.

  • William Byrd

    Lullaby, my sweet little baby

    Performer: Benjamin B茅douin. Performer: Patrick Wibart. Performer: Fr茅d茅ric Baldassare. Performer: Martin Bauer. Performer: Liam Fennelly. Conductor: Geoffroy Jourdain.
    • Melancholia.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 117.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.5 in E flat major Op.82 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Klaus M盲kel盲.
    • Decca.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Peace on earth

    Performer: D贸nal McCann. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Singer: George Hill. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Errollyn Wallen: Peace on Earth.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 1.

  • Richard Rodgers

    My Favourite Things (The Sound of Music)

    Music Arranger: Sir Stephen Hough. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Nimbus.

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