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Your classical alarm call

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. To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask Â鶹Éç Sounds to play Breakfast’. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

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Fri 22 Nov 2024 06:30
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Music Played

  • John Field

    Nocturne no.5 in B flat major

    Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • NAXOS.

  • Edward Elgar

    There Is Sweet Music (4 Choral songs Op.53)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Music Of The Spheres: Part Songs Of The British Isles.
    • SIGNUM.
    • 9.

  • Agustín Barrios Mangoré

    Julia Florida

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • ±Ê°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ¾±Ã³²Ô.
    • Pentatone.
    • 104.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Oboe d'Amore Concerto in A Major, BWV.1055a

    Performer: Marcel Ponseele. Ensemble: Il Gardellino.
    • Bach: Oboe Concertos.
    • Accent.
    • 7-9.

  • Franz Schubert

    An die Musik

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Bryn Terfel.
    • An die Musik.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Horn Concerto Op.58 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Lee Reynolds.
    • Willow Hayne Records.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in E, Op 109 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Sony.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony no.1 in D major Op.25 'Classical' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.

  • Léo Delibes

    Mazurka (Coppélia)

    Orchestra: Opéra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Delibes: Coppelia: Orchestre de l'opera de Lyon/Nagano.
    • Erato.
    • 4.

  • Henry Purcell

    Here the Deities Approve (Ode for St Cecilia's Day)

    Author: Christopher Fishburn. Singer: Tim Mead. Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien. Director: François Lazarevitch.
    • Purcell: Songs & Dances.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 5.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Gaffigan.
    • Warner.

  • µþÂáö°ù°ì

    Frosti

    Performer: µþÂáö°ù°ì.
    • Vespertine.
    • Elektra.

  • FRIDAY POEM

    Frosted Fields, written by Rachael Boast, read by Rachael Boast

  • William Alwyn

    Winter Landscape (3 Winter Poems)

    Ensemble: Bridge String Quartet.
    • Alwyn: Chamber Music and Songs.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op.66

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Chopin: Impromptus, Waltzes & Mazurkas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Sonata no. 2 (1st mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Andrew Armstrong.
    • ONYX.

  • Aaron Copland

    Rodeo - 4 Dance Episodes (Hoe-down)

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • TELARC DIGITAL.

  • Orlande de Lassus

    La nuict froide et sombre, LV 578

    Lyricist: Joachim du Bellay.
    • Orlando, A Melancholic Portrait.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: String Quartet in F Major, M. 35: II. Assez vif. Très rythmé

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • Debussy, Attahir, Ravel.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Locus iste

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Bruckner: Mass in E Minor, Motets.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 110.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (My Country)

    Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Jakub Hrůša.
    • Smetana: My Country.
    • SUPRAPHON.
    • 2.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata in D major Op.102 No.2 for cello and piano, 3rd mvt

    Performer: Ildikó Szabó. Performer: István Lajkó.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto, Op. 3 No. 7 'Con quattro Violini e Violoncello obligato', RV 567

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Orchestra: Brecon Baroque.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.

  • Edwin York Bowen

    Rêverie d'amour, Op.20`2

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

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  • Fri 22 Nov 2024 06:30
    Â鶹Éç Radio 3

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