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Breakfast with the best classical music

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Sun 24 May 2026 06:30
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Music Played

  • Alice Tegnér

    Sov du vesle spire

    Performer: Andreas Ihlebæk.
    • Northern Lullabies.
    • NXN Recordings.
    • 5.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Mandolin Concerto in G Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Avi Avital. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Concertos.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 13.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    5 Fairy Ballads: Sweet Baby Butterfly

    Performer: Amy Harman. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • The Bassoonist's Songbook.
    • Chandos.
    • 114.

  • Max Bruch

    Frühlingslied (6 Songs)

    Ensemble: Duo Dauenhauer Kuen.
    • Bruch: Swedish & Russian Dances.
    • CPO.
    • 110.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Concertino, Op.107

    Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Orchestra: Residentie Orkest. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Great works for flute and orchestra.
    • BIS.
    • 007.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Sonata No 3 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff.
    • Bach: Violin Sonatas & Partitas.
    • Ondine.
    • 204.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 3 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 3.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Adagio in G minor (version for violin)

    Composer: Remo Giazotto. Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Kateřina Chroboková. Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester.
    • Hope.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • Edward Elgar

    Powick Asylum Music: Blumine

    Conductor: Barry Collett. Ensemble: Innovation Chamber Ensemble.
    • Elgar: Music for Powick Asylum.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 15.

  • Anthony Holborne

    The Honie-suckle

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.

  • Anthony Holborne

    The Fairie-round - galliard (courante) vers. for lute

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.5 in E minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Lindberg.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 4, 5 & 6.
    • BIS.
    • 3.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Adelaide, Op 46

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Benjamin Appl.

  • Barrington Pheloung

    Inspector Morse Theme

    Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Barrington Pheloung.
    • The Essential Inspector Morse Collection Original Soundtrack.
    • Virgin Catalogue.
    • 1.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Berceuse Op.16

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Florent Boffard.
    • Faure: Violin sonatas: Isabelle Faust/Florent Boffard.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Lacrimosa (Requiem in D minor, K.626)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Mozart Requiem Reconstruction of First Performances.
    • LINN.
    • 8.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Idylle (Suite pastorale)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • Paray Conducts Chabrier & Roussel.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.

  • George Gershwin

    An American in Paris

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Langrée.
    • Transatlantic.
    • Concord Bicycle Music.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    May 'Spring Song' (from Das Jahr)

    Performer: Claire Huangci.
    • Alpha Classics.

  • Georges Bizet

    Habanera (Carmen)

    Singer: Aigul Akhmetshina. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Daniele Rustioni.
    • Decca.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in D Major "per Signora Anna Maria"

    Performer: Andrés Gabetta. Ensemble: Gabetta Consort.
    • From Venice to Buenos Aires.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Gerardo Matos Rodríguez

    La Cumparsita

    Music Arranger: Stephen Goss. Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • Milos Karadaglic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.

  • Imogen Holst

    Allegro assai

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Alice Farnham.
    • Imogen Holst: Discovering Imogen.
    • NMC Recordings Limited.
    • 9.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Peter and the Wolf: Medley of Themes

    Conductor: Sian Edwards. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • A Musical Bestiary.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 12.

Broadcast

  • Sun 24 May 2026 06:30
    BBC Radio 3