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Start the day on the right note 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 6 Jun 202606:30
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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Solomon, HWV 67, Act 3: "Will the Sun Forget to Streak" (Queen of Sheba)

    Conductor: Thomas Dunford. Ensemble: Jupiter.
    • Eternal Heaven.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.

  • Ina Boyle

    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (To the memory of my mother): I. Lento, ma non troppo

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Irene Delgado-Jiménez.
    • Women (Extended Version).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 10.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintette pour clarinette en La Majeur, K. 581: III. Menuetto

    Performer: Raphaël Sévère. Ensemble: Modigliani Quartet.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Works.
    • Mirare.
    • 6.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    St John Passion BWV.245 (Herr, unser Herrscher')

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian spring - suite vers. for orchestra [1945], no.7; Doppio movimento - Variations on a Shaker hymn

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.
    • Aaron Copland: The World of Aaron Copland.
    • Decca.
    • 10.

  • Isaac Albéniz

    Iberia Book 1 (Evocación)

    Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.
    • Albeniz: Iberia; Navarra; Suite Espanola - Larrocha.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto for 3 Oboes, 3 Violins and Basso Continuo in Bb Major, TWV 44:43

    Performer: Susanne Wettemann. Performer: Amanda Tauriņa. Performer: Inmaculada Veses. Performer: Elisabeth Dingstad. Performer: Tobias Haupt. Performer: Karl Heinrich Niebuhr. Ensemble: Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Pentatone.

  • Olivia Belli

    Tàmâr Mĕtūshelāḥ

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Olivia Belli.
    • Gaïa.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Fracanapa

    Performer: François Joubert‐Caillet. Ensemble: L’Achéron.
    • Fuga Libera.

  • Nikolai Karlovich Medtner

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 50: II. Romanza. Andante con moto

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 – Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 2.
    • Hyperion.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.4 in F minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • ONYX.

  • Philipp van Wichel

    Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo, Atto Terzo, Intermedio: Festa & Ballo. Ciagogna

    Lyricist: Agostino Manni. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • Cavalieri: Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 12.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Lezghinka (Gayaneh)

    Conductor: Aram Khachaturian. Orchestra: State Academic Symphony Orchestra of The Russian Federation.
    • MELODIYA.

  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Sextet for Piano, Clarinet, Horn and String Trio, Op. 37: IV. Finale

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Dohnányi: String Quartet, Serenade & Sextet.
    • Hyperion.

  • Josephine Lang

    Danse infernale, Op. 46

    Performer: Marie Sophie Hauzel.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Symphonic Suite based on Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, Op. 35: II - The Legend of the Kalendar Prince

    Composer: Aleksandar Sedlar.
    • Baïka.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.

  • Margaret Bonds

    Montgomery Variations: III. March

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Still & Bonds - Symphonies & Variations.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Georges Bizet

    Suites from "Carmen": XII. Danse bohême

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • French Orchestral Favourites.
    • Chandos.
    • 117.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt, Op. 23: Morning Mood

    Performer: Cyprien Katsaris.
    • Relaxing Piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 26.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Fughetta (No 5 of Five Bagatelles, Op 23)

    Performer: Robert Plane. Music Arranger: Lawrence Ashmore. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • Finzi: Clarinet Concert, Five Bagatelles: Robert Plane.
    • Naxos.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis et Chloe, M. 57, Troisieme partie: X. Anime - Danse Generale - Danse de

    Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe.
    • LSO Live.
    • 10.

Broadcast

  • Sat 6 Jun 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3