Ease into the day with classical music
Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning.
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            Tomás Luis de Victoria
Requiem Mass for 6 voices (Requiem aeternam)
Choir: Tenebrae. Director: Nigel Short.- SIGNUM.
 
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            Cécile Chaminade
Nocturne, Op. 165
Performer: Emmanuel Despax.- Signum.
 
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            Herbert Howells
Three dances for violin and orchestra, Op 7 (No 2 - Quasi lento, quieto)
Performer: Malcolm Stewart. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- Herbert Howells: Piano concerto no.2, Concerto for strings, Three Dances.
 - Hyperion.
 - 005.
 
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            Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for keyboard in D minor BWV.1052 ; 3. Allegro
Performer: Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas. Ensemble: La Tempête. Director: Simon‐Pierre Bestion.- ALPHA CLASSICS.
 
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            Joseph Haydn
Symphony no.101 in D major 'Clock' (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Pierre Monteux.- Decca.
 
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            Sir James MacMillan
O Radiant Dawn
Choir: Apollo5.- VCM RECORDS.
 
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            John Dowland
Fantasia in G major P.1
Performer: Sean Shibe.- Delphian.
 
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            Grace Williams
Calm Sea in Summer (Sea Sketches)
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: David Atherton.- Grace Williams: Fantasia On Welsh Nursery Tunes, Carillons, Penillion, Trumpet C.
 - Lyrita.
 - 17.
 
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            Trad.
Brigg Fair
Performer: Martin Carthy.- TOPIC.
 
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            Maurice Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin (Prelude)
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- Boulez conducts Debusy and Ravel.
 - Deutsche Grammophon.
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            Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Nonet in F minor Op.2 (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.- Chandos.
 
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            Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.- Beethoven: The Piano Concertos: Zimerman/Wiener Philharmoniker/Bernstein.
 - Deutsche Grammophon.
 - 6.
 
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            Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No 5 in B flat major, K 22 (1st mvt)
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.- Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
 - EMI Classics.
 
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            Richard Wagner
Lohengrin: Act I Prelude
Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Marek Janowski.- PENTATONE.
 
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            Carl Maria von Weber
Konzertstück in F Minor, Op. 79, J. 282: Allegro passionato
Performer: Ronald Brautigam. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens. Orchestra: Die Kölner Akademie.- Weber: Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra.
 - BIS.
 - 302.
 
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            Hans Gál
Cello Concerto, op.67 (2nd mvt 'Andante')
Performer: Antônio Meneses. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Cláudio Cruz.- Gal - Elgar: Cello Concertos.
 - Avie.
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            James Oswald
The Golden Rod (Airs for the Seasons - Winter)
Ensemble: The Broadside Band. Performer: Matthew Dixon. Director: Jeremy Barlow.- Oswald: Airs for the Seasons.
 - Dorian.
 - 9-11.
 
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            Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor (3rd mvt)
Performer: Jennifer Pike. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- Chandos CHSA 5161.
 - Chandos.
 - 3.
 
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            Frédéric Chopin
Grande Polonaise in E flat, Op 22
Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.- DECCA.
 
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            Alexander Borodin
String Quartet no.2 in D major (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Borodin Quartet.- Borodin: String Quartets Nos. 1&2: Borodin Quartet.
 - Chandos.
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            Leos Janáček
Sokol Fanfare (Sinfonietta)
Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jonathan Nott.- Janacek: Sinfonietta: Bamberger Symphoniker/Nott.
 - Tudor.
 - 1.
 
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            Antonín Dvořák
Scherzo capriccioso Op.66
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: István Kertész.- Decca.
 
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            Gabriel Fauré
Romance in B flat major for violin and piano, Op 28
Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Florent Boffard.- Faure: Violin sonatas: Isabelle Faust/Florent Boffard.
 - Harmonia Mundi.
 
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            Felix Mendelssohn
Octet for strings (Op.20) in E flat major - iii. Scherzo
Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.- DG.
 
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            Duke Ellington
Things Ain't What They Used to Be
Performer: Steven Osborne. - 
    
            Thomas Tallis
O nata lux de lumine
Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O’Donnell.- HYPERION.
 
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            George Frideric Handel
Sinfonia, 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba' (Solomon)
Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- Pachelbel/Handel/Vivaldi/Gluck: Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood.
 - L'Oiseau-Lyre.
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