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Start the day right with classical music

Sara Mohr-Pietsch 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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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran Partita" (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Wind Ensemble. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Director: Alexei Ogrintchouk.
    • Mozart: Serenade No. 10 in B-Flat Major, K. 361 "Gran Partita".
    • BIS.
    • 103.
  • Charles-Valentin Alkan

    Prelude: J'étais endormie, mais mon cœur veillait...

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Good Night!.
    • ERATO.
    • 16.
  • Edward Elgar

    Violin concerto in B minor, Op 61 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 1 (Overture)

    Ensemble: La Petite Bande. Director: Sigiswald Kuijken.
    • Bach - The Orchestral Suites.
    • ACCENT.
    • 8.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Pavane, Op 50

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

    Piano Trio in C Major, H.15.21

    Ensemble: Trio Wanderer.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios, HOB. XV:14, 18, 21, 26 & 31.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 107.
  • George Frideric Handel

    O ruddier than the cherry (Acis and Galatea)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Trad.

    When The Saints Go Marching In

    Performer: Portadown Male Choir.
    • The Best Of Sidney Bechet.
    • Blue Note Records.
    • 12.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid (Old Viennese Dances)

    Music Arranger: Clark McAlister. Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Romances: Gil Shaham/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Pandit Channulal Mishra

    Diwali Bandish

    Performer: Pandit Channulal Mishra.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 4 in G Major, Op. 58 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lars Vogt. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • ONDINE.
  • William Lawes

    Consort Suite à 5 No 3 in C minor (Paven)

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Williams Lawes - Consort Sets in Five and Six Parts.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 9.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    November Night, Edinburgh, written by Norman MacCaig, read by Sean Barrett

  • James Oswald

    Divertimento no.1

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Softloud: Music for Acoustic and Electric Guitars.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 1.
  • Zoltán Kodály

    Intermezzo (Hary Janos Suite, Op.35a)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Kodaly: "Hary Janos" Suite: Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 15.
  • William Byrd

    Gaudeamus omnes

    Ensemble: The Marian Consort. Director: Rory McCleery.
    • Singing in Secret: Clandestine Catholic Music by William Byrd.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 2.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Quintet (4th mvt)

    Performer: Paul Meyer. Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Aki Saulière. Performer: Béatrice Muthelet. Performer: Gautier Capuçon.
    • Brahms: Double Concerto, Op. 102 & Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.
  • Henry Purcell

    Fantazia Upon a Ground, Z. 731

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien. Director: François Lazarevitch.
    • Purcell: Songs & Dances.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 14.
  • Vivian Ellis

    Coronation Scot (theme from the 鶹Լ radio series 'Paul Temple')

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • The Best Of British Light Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Florian Schneider

    Morgenspaziergang – Morning Walk

    Composer: Ralf Hütter. Ensemble: Kraftwerk.
  • Franz Schubert

    Die Schone Mullerin: Morgengruss

    Performer: Christoph Prégardien. Performer: Michael Gees.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in B flat major for 3 oboes, violins and continuo

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Performer: Michael Niesemann. Performer: Piet Dhont. Performer: Hans-Peter Westermann. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Telemann: Wind Concertos: Musica Antiqua Koln, Goebel.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 5-7.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Berceuse

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
  • Richard Wagner

    Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Wagner: Parsifal, Der Fliegende Holländer, Die Meistersinger, & Tristan und Isol.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 5.
  • Irene Poldowski

    L'heure exquise

    Performer: Philippe Jaroussky. Performer: Jérôme Ducros.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in C minor BWV.847 (Well-tempered Clavier, Bk 1)

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • DG.
  • Aaron Copland

    Buckaroo Holiday (Rodeo - 4 dance episodes)

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • John Dowland

    Lachrimae antiquae novae

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Music For Viols.
    • VIRGIN VIRGO.
    • 5.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Men of Sherwood Forest (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Philip Lane. Orchestra: 鶹Լ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Dutton.
  • Tarquinio Merula

    Ciaccona

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico.

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