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Your classical alarm call

Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning.

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3 hours

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus, K 618

    Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Mozart: Requiem.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 016.
  • Amy Beach

    Hermit Thrush at Morn Op.92`2

    Performer: Joanne Polk.
    • Amy Beach - Under the Stars. Solo Piano Music (Vol. 2).
    • Arabesque.
    • 5.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Introit, Op 6

    Performer: Thomas Gould. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.35 'Geist und Seele wird verwirret' (Aria)

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Performer: Tom Foster. Orchestra: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • HYPERION.
  • Frederick Delius

    La Calinda

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eric Fenby.
    • HERITAGE.
  • Nadia Boulanger

    Cantique

    Performer: Joseph Beadle. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • Celestial Dawn.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Maria de Buenos Aires; Milonga carrieguera por María la nina

    Performer: Victor Villena. Ensemble: Mr. McFall’s Chamber. Singer: Nicholas Mulroy.
    • Piazzólla: Maria de Buenos Aires.
    • Delphian.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran Partita": III. Adagio

    Orchestra: Harmonie de l'Orchestre des Champs-Elysées. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Mozart: Gran partita.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.
  • Claude Debussy

    La plus que lente

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major for 2 trumpets, RV.537

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Peter Holman.
    • Music for two trumpets from the Italian Baroque.
    • Hyperion.
    • 33.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Die verschwiegene Nachtigall

    Performer: Ian Tindale. Singer: Bethany Horak-Hallett.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219: I. Allegro aperto - Adagio - Allegro a

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5; 2 Rondos.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 6.
  • Cipriano de Rore

    Ancor che col Partire

    Performer: Liam Byrne. Performer: Valgeir Sigurðsson. Performer: James McVinnie. Music Arranger: Richardo Rognono.
    • Concrete.
    • Bedroom Community.
    • 9.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic dances - series 1 Op.46 (no.8 in G minor)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • TELDEC.
  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Pieces Op.1 for piano; no.1; Allegro con leggerezza

    Performer: Geir Henning Braaten.
    • Victoria.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Dargason (St Paul's Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Gustav Holst.
    • Documents.
    • 11.
  • Johann Strauss II

    The Blue Danube, Op. 314

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Johann Strauss - Waltzes & Polkas.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 006.
  • Rita Strohl

    Grande Fantaisie-Quintette: II. Scherzo. Allegro moderato

    Performer: Héloïse Luzzati. Performer: Célia Oneto Bensaid. Performer: Léa Hennino. Performer: Alexandre Pascal. Performer: Shuichi Okada.
    • La Boîte à Pépites.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the dance

    Orchestrator: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • HYPERION.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Trio Sonata in C Minor, BUXWV 262

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas Op. 2.
    • Alpha.
    • 4.
  • Bud Powell

    Polka Dots and Moonbeams

    • The Classic Recordings: 1949 - 1956.
    • Enlightenment.
    • 40.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Tarantelle Op.6

    Performer: Susan Milan. Performer: James Campbell. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Saint-Saëns: Africa.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 8.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia concertante K.364 for violin, viola and orchestra; III. Presto

    Performer: Noah Bendix-Balgley. Performer: Diyang Mei. Orchestra: Berliner Barock Solisten.
    • Sony.
  • Edward Elgar

    Sea Slumber Song (Sea Pictures)

    Singer: Alice Coote. Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Halle.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in E flat major, Op 117 No 1 (Schlummerlied)

    Performer: Eric Lu.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Flute Concerto in D minor, 3rd movement

    Performer: Alexis Kossenko. Ensemble: Arte dei Suonatori.
    • CPE Bach: Concerti a flauto traverso I: Alexis Kossenko, Arte dei Suonatori.
    • Alpha.

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