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Classical rise and shine

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

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3 hours

Music Played

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Six Short Pieces for piano (No 2 in D major)

    Performer: Hiroaki Takenouchi.
  • John Hebden

    Concerto no.1 in A major

    Orchestra: London Early Opera. Conductor: Bridget Cunningham.
    • Handel at Vauxhall Volume 1.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 013.
  • Clara Schumann

    Gondoliera (3 Part-songs for chorus)

    Choir: North German Radio Choir. Director: Philipp Ahmann.
    • ES-Dur.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Seascape Op.53

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jonathan Bloxham.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Das alte Jahr vergangen ist, BWV 614 (Arr. Kurtag for Piano 4 Hands)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson. Performer: Halla Oddný Magnúsdóttir. Music Arranger: György Kurtág.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no. 2 in D major H.7b.2: 3rd movement; Rondo

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Hyperion.
  • Percy Grainger

    The Lads of Wamphray

    Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Grainger: Works for Wind Orchestra vol. 4: Reynish/Rundell.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Alonso Lobo

    Kyrie (Missa Prudentes virgines)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Plus Ultra.
    • From Spain to Eternity - The Sacred Polyphony of El Greco's Toledo.
    • ARCHIV.
    • 4.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Queen Mab Scherzo (Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid

    Music Arranger: Sergey Rachmaninov. Performer: Kirill Gerstein.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker.
  • Trad.

    The Kerfunken Jig

    Performer: Martin Hayes. Performer: Dennis Cahill.
    • The Lonesome Touch.
    • Green Linnet.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218: I. Allegro

    Performer: Baiba Skride. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Eivind Aadland.
    • ORFEO.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lute Suite no.1 in E minor BWV.996 (Allemande and Courante)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Delphian.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    "High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee, read by Andrew Sachs

  • Eric Coates

    The Dambusters March

    Performer: Central Band of the Royal Air Force. Conductor: Duncan Stubbs.
    • Royal Air Force 100th Anniversary.
    • Chandos.
    • 30.
  • Leos Janáček

    Fanfare (Sinfonietta)

    Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.
    • Dvorak: Legends, Op. 59 / Janacek: Sinfonietta.
    • BIS.
    • 11.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Concertante Quartet in C major, Op 15 No 3: second movement (Rondeau)

    Ensemble: Levare String Quartet.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    6 Lieder von Goethe, S468/R123 Nos. 1-3 (1. Mignon; 2. Mit einem gemalten Band; 3. Freudvoll und leidvoll)

    Performer: Ramzi Yassa.
    • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Appassionata & Waldstein - 6 Lieder von Goethe (Transcr.
    • Pavane Records.
    • 1.
  • Giuseppe Torelli

    Sinfonia in D major for trumpet, strings and continuo

    Performer: Thomas Reiner. Orchestra: South-West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim. Conductor: Sebastian Tewinkel.
    • Baroque Trumpet Concertos.
    • Naxos.
    • 1-3.
  • Franz Schubert

    An die Musik, D.547

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau. Performer: Gerald Moore.
    • Schubert: Complete Songs: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Vicente Lusitano

    Emendemus in melius

    Choir: 鶹Լ Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.
  • Francisco António de Almeida

    La Spinalba, ovvero Il vecchio matto - Overture

    Ensemble: Os Músicos do Tejo. Director: Marcos Magalhães.
    • La Spinalba ovvero Il vecchio matto (Spinalba, or the mad old man).
    • Naxos.
    • 1-3.
  • Richard Strauss

    Serenade in E flat major, Op.7

    Ensemble: Netherlands Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Edo de Waart.
    • Strauss: Complete Music for Wind Ensemble: Netherlands Wind Ensemble/de Waart.
    • Newton Classics.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit BWV106, Sonatina az "Actus tragicus"-ból

    Performer: Márta Kurtág. Performer: György Kurtág. Music Arranger: György Kurtág.
    • Kurtág, Bach: Játékok.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 13.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Nabucco (Overture)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Verdi: Overtures and Preludes: Muti.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • George Enescu

    Concertstucke

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Frank Dupree.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Flute Concerto in D major, RV 431a, 'Il gran Mogul'

    Performer: Alexis Kossenko. Orchestra: Modo Antiquo. Director: Federico Maria Sardelli.
    • Vivaldi: New Discoveries II.
    • Naive.
    • 1-3.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    'Minute' Waltz in D flat major (3 Waltzes Op.64)

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 6.
  • Robert Katscher

    When Day Is Done (1996 Remastered)

    Ensemble: Coleman Hawkins All Star Octet.
    • Body & Soul.
    • RCA Victor - Victor Jazz.
    • 5.

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