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Hannah French 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

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Fri 1 Mar 2024 06:30
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Music Played

  • Gregorio Allegri

    Allegri: Miserere Mei

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    String Quartet no.1 In D Major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Heath Quartet.
    • String Quartets No. 1 & No. 3.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Mazurka No. 35 in C Minor, Op. 56 No. 3. Moderato

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Chopin: Mazurkas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 23.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Geist und Seele wird verwirret, Cantata, BWV 35: I. Sinfonia

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Bach: Cantatas 35 & 169 "Geist und Seele" & "Gott soll allein".
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La Traviata (Act 1 Prelude)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Viva Verdi.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Dario Castello

    Sonata Duodecima Γ  3 libro 2

    Ensemble: Caecilia-Concert.
    • Castello & Co - Venetian sonatas for winds and strings from the 17th century.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 7.

  • Franz Schubert

    Ellens Gesang 3 'Ave Maria' D.839

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Valentina Lisitsa.
    • DECCA.

  • Trad.

    Lo Guarrachino. Tarantella

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Singer: Alessandro Giangrande. Performer: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Alla Napoletana - Trad / Arr. Pluhar: Lo Guarracino. Tarentella.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Richard Wagner

    The Ride of the Valkyries (Die WalkΓΌre)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • The Berlin Album: Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

    Les Cloches de Las Palmas (6 Studies Op.111)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Erato.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Ballade in A minor, Op.33 (2nd mvt: A tempo - Tranquillo e molto)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kalena Bovell.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 14.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    For the Virgin (O Frondens Virga)

    Music Arranger: Missy Mazzoli. Singer: Emily D'Angelo. Performer: Mikayel Hakhnazaryan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • FRIDAY POEM

    Black March by Stevie Smith, read by Adjoa Andoh

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony no.1 in B flat major Op.38 'Spring' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick NΓ©zet‐SΓ©guin.
    • Schumann - The Symphonies.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 003.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    March from The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33a

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Greatest Hits: Marches.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 23.

  • Dilys Elwyn-Edwards

    The cloths of heaven

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Bryn Terfel: Silent Noon - English Songs.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No. 00 in F minor 'Study Symphony' - III Scherzo

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • Bruckner: Symphony in F Minor, WAB 99 ("Nullified" First Symphony, also called ".
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • John Adams

    China Gates

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Adams: China Gates.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op 67 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Beethoven Symphonies: Live from the Edinburgh Festival.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • °Υ°ωΓ€»ε

    (Dafydd y Garreg Wen) David of the White Rock

    Music Arranger: George Willcocks. Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Nicholas J Childs.
    • Doyen.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor: IV. Vivace

    Ensemble: Modigliani Quartet.
    • Grieg - Smetana.
    • Mirare.
    • 108.

  • Michael Tippett

    A Child of Our Time - "Five Spirituals": II. Nobody Knows

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Great British Choral Works.
    • The Sixteen Productions Ltd..
    • 12.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77: II. Adagio

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
    • Brahms & Busoni Violin Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 105.

  • George Gershwin

    Piano Concerto in F major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Robertson.
    • The Gershwin Moment.
    • Myrios Classics.
    • 8.

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