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Start the day with classical music

Hannah French presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Sat 17 Jan 202606:30
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Music Played

  • John Blow

    Chaconne in G major

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Director: Jonathan Cohen.
    • HYPERION.

  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no. 1 (Afro-American) (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony/In Memoriam/Africa (Symphonic Poem).
    • NAXOS.
    • 6.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia concertante in E flat major K.297b (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sarah Willis. Performer: Jonathan Kelly. Performer: Wenzel Fuchs. Performer: Stefan Schweigert. Orchestra: Havana Lyceum Orchestra. Conductor: José Antonio Méndez Padrón.
    • ALPHA.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Motet BWV228 'Fürchte dich nicht'

    Lyricist: Paul Gerhardt. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Choir: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Bach: Motets.
    • BIS.
    • 701.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    • Confidence.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 10.

  • Franz Liszt

    Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este (Années de pèlerinage III)

    Performer: Hélène Grimaud.
    • Helene Grimaud: Water.
    • DG.
    • 11.

  • Anonymous

    Folia: Rodrigo Martínez

    • Harmonie Universelle.
    • Aliavox.
    • 1.

  • Rachel Portman

    Apple Tree

    Performer: Rachel Portman.
    • Ask the River.
    • Node Records.
    • 7.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2, M. 57b: I. Lever de jour

    Conductor: Elim Chan. Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.
    • All These Lighted Things.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 1.

  • Louise Héritte-Viardot

    Piano Quartet No 1 in A major, 'In Summer' (2nd mvt, Flies and Butterflies)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 102.

  • Jacobus Clemens non Papa

    Ego flos campi

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Manuel de Falla

    El sombrero de tres picos, Pt. 2: No. 6, Danza del molinero

    • De Falla: Noches en los jardines de España & El sombrero de tres picos.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 9.

  • George Frideric Handel

    La Réjouissance (Music for the Royal Fireworks)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Zefiro. Conductor: Alfredo Bernardini.
    • Arcana A 386.
    • Arcana.
    • 4.

  • John Stanley

    Trumpet Voluntary

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Newman.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Edward Elgar

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

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

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    On the Hobby-Horse (from The Nursery)

    Music Arranger: Peter Breiner. Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Breiner.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Songs and Dances of Death & The Nursery (.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.

  • Palle Mikkelborg

    Bill Evans Suite: V. Waltz for Debby (reprise)

    Composer: Claus Ogerman. Performer: Thomas Clausen Trio. Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
    • Symbiosis · Tribute to Bill Evans.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 8 in F major, Op. 93: II. Allegretto scherzando

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies.
    • DG.
    • 31.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for Two Horns in F Major, RV 538: I. Allegro

    Conductor: Pablo Valetti. Ensemble: Café Zimmermann.
    • Vivaldi: Masques.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 10.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for Two Horns in F Major, RV 538: II. Largo

    Conductor: Pablo Valetti. Ensemble: Café Zimmermann.
    • Vivaldi: Masques.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 11.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for Two Horns in F Major, RV 538: III. Allegro non molto

    Conductor: Pablo Valetti. Ensemble: Café Zimmermann.
    • Vivaldi: Masques.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 12.

  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Étude no.41 in E flat major

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • Hélène de Montgeroult: Études.
    • BIS.
    • 108.

  • Francisco Tárrega

    Adelita

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • The Guitar: Milos Karadaglic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • J.S. Bach: Orchestral Music: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.

Broadcast

  • Sat 17 Jan 202606:30
    BBC Radio 3