
Hannah French
Hannah French plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.
Hannah French plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites.
0930 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.
1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.
1045 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.
1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.
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Music Played
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Ruslan and Ludmilla (Overture)
Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.- Russian Sketches.
- Telarc.
- 1.
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Johannes Ciconia
Petrum Marcello venetum
Ensemble: Mala Punica. Conductor: Pedro Memelsdorff.- Erato.
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Amy Beach
Romance, Op.23
Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Michael Brown.- Echoes.
- BIS.
- 6.
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Robert Schumann
Concertstück in F major, Op.86 (1st mvt)
Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.- RCA.
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Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen
Shine You No More
Ensemble: Danish String Quartet. -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker (The Magic Castle on Sweet Mountain)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
- EMI Classics.
- 1.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony no.41 in C major, K.551 'Jupiter' (4th mvt)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Mozart: Symphonien No. 40 & No. 41 »Jupiter«: Abbado/LSO.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Jordan Cauvin
Theatre du Chatelet
Performer: Thibault Cauvin.- Sony.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata BWV.42 'Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats' (Sinfonia)
Ensemble: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.- DHM.
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Georgs Pelēcis
Flowering Jasmine
Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Andrei Pushkarev. Orchestra: Kremerata Baltica. Director: Gidon Kremer.- NONESUCH.
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Johannes Brahms
Serenade no.1 in D major Op.11 (6th mvt)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.- Sony Classical.
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Juan de Triana
Con temor vivo
Singer: Alena Dantcheva. Ensemble: Accademia del Piacere. Director: Fahmi Alqhai.- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata no.21 in C major Op.53 'Waldstein' (3rd mvt)
Performer: Igor Levit.- Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas.
- Sony Classical.
- 7.
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Niccolò Jommelli
Sinfonia in E flat major [The Periodical Overtures in 8 parts]
Orchestra: Concerto Köln. Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado.- El Maestro - Farinelli.
- Archiv Produktion.
- 19.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Violin Concerto no.2 in G minor Op.63 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.- RCA.
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Scott Joplin
Sugar Cane
Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: André Previn.- Joplin, Previn: Ragtime & Blues.
- Warner Classics.
- 10.
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Leslie Bricusse
The Candy Man (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
Composer: Anthony Newley. Singer: Aubrey Woods. Conductor: Walter Scharf.- Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory.
- Geffen.
- 2.
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Modest Mussorgsky
The Old Castle (Pictures from an Exhibition)
Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.- Ravel: La Valse - Mussorgsky: Les Tableaux d'une exposition (Orch. Ravel).
- harmonia mundi.
- 4.
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Richard Strauss
Schlagobers-Walzer (Schlagobers Op.70)
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Strauss: Schlagobers, Munchen: Detroit SO/Jarvi.
- Chandos.
- 5.
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Ottorino Respighi
La Befana (Feste Romane)
Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.- CHANDOS.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor Op.10 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- Coleridge-Taylor: Piano quintet/Clarinet quintet: Nash Ensemble.
- Hyperion.
- 9.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Nulla in mundo pax sincera RV.630
Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Catherine Rimer. Performer: Thomas Dunford. Performer: Jan Waterfield. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Christian Curnyn.- Nicola Benedetti: Italia.
- Decca.
- 15.
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Gerald Finzi
To Lizbie Brown Op15 no.7
Music Arranger: Mike Sheppard. Performer: Amy Dickson. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.- Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 13.
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Vladimir Martynov
The Beatitudes
Choir: Conspirare. Director: Craig Hella Johnson.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Straussiana
Orchestra: Bruckner Orchester Linz. Orchestra: Bruckner Orchester Linz. Conductor: Caspar Richter. Conductor: Caspar Richter.- Korngold - Fairytale Pictures and other orchestral music.
- ASV.
- 009.
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William Byrd
Afflicti pro peccatis nostris
Choir: The Cardinall’s Musick. Director: Andrew Carwood.- William Byrd: Infelix ego The Cardinall's Musick.
- Hyperion.
- 12.
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Felix Mendelssohn
String Octet in E flat Major Op.20 (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Gringolts Quartet. Ensemble: Meta4.- Felix Mendelssohn & Enescu: Octets.
- BIS.
- 104.
Broadcast
- Mon 10 Apr 2023 09:00ѿý Radio 3