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Perk up your morning with classical music

Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with the Friday poem and music that captures the mood of the morning.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 10 Nov 2023 06:30

Music Played

  • Richard Strauss

    Serenade in E flat major, Op.7

    Ensemble: Royal Academy of Music Symphonic Wind. Conductor: Keith Bragg.
    • ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
  • Amy Elise Horrocks

    Twilight (Rêverie)

    Performer: Alexandra Mackenzie. Performer: Ingrid Sawers.
    • Beyond Twilight: Music for Cello & Piano by Female Composers.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 1.
  • Marie Dare

    Le Lac [ The Lake ]

    Performer: Alexandra Mackenzie. Performer: Ingrid Sawers.
    • Beyond Twilight: Music for Cello & Piano by Female Composers.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 8.
  • Franz Biebl

    Ave Maria

    Choir: The Gentlemen of St John’s. Director: Christopher Robinson.
    • Music for Men's Voices.
    • Priory.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 861 (Book 1, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • J. S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 1: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Bagatelles, Op 47: No.5

    Ensemble: Panochovo kvarteto. Performer: Jaroslav Tůma.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Eric Coates

    The Three Elizabeths (Spring Time in Angus [Elizabeth of Glamis])

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Reginald Kilbey.
    • Classics for Pleasure.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.3 in A minor, Op.56 'Scottish' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol.2.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonatina (Cantata no.106 'Actus Tragicus')

    Music Arranger: György Kurtág. Performer: Márta Kurtág. Performer: György Kurtág.
    • Kurtág: Játékok.
    • BMC Records.
    • 58.
  • Leo Brouwer

    Un Dia de noviembre

    Performer: Ricardo Cobo.
    • The Latin American Guitar.
    • NAXOS.
    • 4.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    L'Italiana in Algeri: Overture

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale, Bologna. Conductor: Michele Mariotti.
    • Rossini: Overtures.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 03.
  • Georges Bizet

    Dat's love (Carmen Jones)

    Music Arranger: Oscar Hammerstein II. Singer: Marilyn Horne. Conductor: Herschel Burke-Gilbert.
    • Carmen Jones (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Top Tracks.
    • 9.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture (Suite) in A major TWV 55:a2 (Minuets I & II; Rejouissance)

    Performer: Erik Bosgraaf. Ensemble: Cordevento.
    • Brilliant Classics 95248.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 11.
  • Thomas Tallis

    If ye love me

    Ensemble: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • GIMELL.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    MCMXIV by Philip Larkin, read by Alan Bennett

  • Thomas Adès

    O Albion (Arcadiana)

    Ensemble: Endellion Quartet.
    • Ades: Living Toys.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 14.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite, Op.40 (Rigaudon)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Grieg: Holberg Suite/Tchaikovsky: String Serenade: Orheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Robert Schumann

    Adagio and Allegro in A flat major, Op 70

    Performer: Marie Luise Neunecker. Performer: Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky.
    • Schumann: Chamber Music.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4-5.
  • Rebecca Dale

    Kyrie (Materna Requiem)

    Singer: Louise Alder. Performer: Jonathan Aasgaard. Choir: Kantos Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Requiem for My Mother.
    • Decca.
    • 002.
  • Christian Wallumrød

    Gitar

    Performer: Christian Wallumrød.
    • HUBRO.
  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Prokofiev, Britten, Bizet: Symphonies: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Léo Delibes

    The Maids of Cadiz

    Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Performer: Philippe Schartz. Performer: Cory Band. Conductor: Robert Childs.
    • The Magic of Brass.
    • Doyen.
    • 5.
  • Arvo Pärt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Fantasie.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 6.
  • Buddy DeSylva

    When Day Is Done

    Composer: Robert Katscher. Performer: Coleman Hawkins. Ensemble: Coleman Hawkins All Star Octet.
    • Body & Soul.
    • RCA Victor - Victor Jazz.
    • 5.
  • John Dowland

    Come again: sweet love doth now invite ( First Booke Of Songes, 1597)

    Singer: Barbara Bonney. Performer: Jacob Heringman.
    • Fairest Isle.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Piano Concerto no.2 Op.22 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Emmanuel Krivine.
    • ERATO.

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