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A relaxing classical morning

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of Sunday morning. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Sun 10 Dec 2023 07:00
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Music Played

  • César Franck

    Panis angelicus

    Orchestrator: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Stokowski Encores.
    • Chandos.
    • 08.

  • Trad.

    Noël Nouvelet

    Ensemble: Zefiro Torna.
    • BEVRT.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet! Betet! Betet! Wachet! (Cantata no.70)

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.

  • Sergei Bortkiewicz

    Elegie in C sharp major Op.46

    Performer: Stephen Coombs.
    • Bortkiewicz - Piano Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Wonderful Town (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Charlie Harmon. Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Bernstein: Marin Alsop's Complete Naxos Recordings.
    • Naxos.
    • 1611.

  • Carl Friedrich Abel

    Piece in D major K.187 (27 Pieces K.186-212)

    Performer: Petr Wagner.
    • Abel, C F: The Drexel Manuscript.
    • Note 1 Music GmbH.
    • 02.

  • Anoushka Shankar

    Daydreaming

    Performer: Nils Frahm.
    • Chapter I Forever for Now.
    • LEITER.

  • Percy Grainger

    The Lost Lady Found (A Lincolnshire Posy)

    Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Warner.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    Le baiser de l'Enfant-Jésus (Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jésus)

    Performer: Michel Béroff.
    • Messiaen: 100th Anniversary Box Set.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 607.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet Op.33 no.2 'Joke' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op. 33 Nos 1-3.
    • BIS.
    • 204.

  • Rihards Dubra

    O radix Jesse

    Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.
    • Advent at Merton.
    • DELPHIAN.
    • 9.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Orchestra: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. Conductor: Michel Plasson.
    • EMI.

  • Michael Praetorius

    In dulci jubilo

    Orchestra: Bremer Barock Consort. Conductor: Manfred Cordes.
    • cpo.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Tuba Concerto in F minor

    Performer: John Fletcher. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • RCA Red Seal.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Der Schauspieldirektor K.486 (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Ulf-Guido Schäfer. Ensemble: Ma’alot Quintett.
    • C-Avi.

  • Nicholas Roubanis

    Misirlou Twist

    Music Arranger: Osvaldo Golijov. Ensemble: Kronos Quartet. Performer: Martyn Jones.
    • Kronos Explorer Series.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 12.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.5 in C sharp minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubelík.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 5: Kubelik.
    • DG.
    • 4.

  • Anon.

    Coventry Carol

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • The Mystery of Christmas.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 106.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Humoreske

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Anton Rickenbacher.
    • Orchesterwerke.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 14.

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  • Sun 10 Dec 2023 07:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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