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Ease into Satie-Day with classical music

Emma Clarke presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

Emma Clarke presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford.

Looking ahead to Satie-Day, as Radio 3 marks 100 years since the death of the French composer, Emma plays music by Saint-Saens, Charpentier, Poulenc, Rameau, Chaminade, Hahn, Gossec, Roussel, Ibert, and Satie himself...

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Erik Satie

    Sonatine bureaucratique

    Performer: Pascal Rogé.
    • Satie: Piano Music.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 16.
  • Marc‐Antoine Charpentier

    Passacaille [Medée, Act 2]

    Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • Charpentier : Médée.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 32.
  • Franz Berwald

    String Quartet No.1 in G minor (2nd mvt: Poco adagio)

    Ensemble: Yggdrasil Quartet.
    • Berwald: String Quartets Nos. 1-3.
    • BIS.
    • 2.
  • Albert Roussel

    Symphony No.1 in D minor, Op.7 "Le poème de la forêt" (3rd mvt: Soir d'été)

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Marek Janowski.
    • Roussel: Symphonies Nos. 1-4.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lute Partita in C Minor BWV.997 (Prelude [performed in A minor])

    Performer: Sharon Isbin.
    • Bach for Guitar (Inspiration).
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 119.
  • Erik Satie

    Poudre d'or

    Performer: Anne Queffélec.
    • Satie - Piano Works.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 24.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat Major, K. 417: III. Rondo

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor Op.17 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto, RV.501 'La notte'

    Performer: Peter Whelan. Orchestra: La Serenissima. Conductor: Adrian Chandler.
    • AVIE.
  • Arthur Bliss

    Things to come (March)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos Movies.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Flute Sonata (1st mvt)

    Performer: Adam Walker. Performer: James Baillieu.
    • Vocalise.
    • OPUS ARTE.
    • 1.
  • François-Joseph Gossec

    Symphony in D major, Op.3`6

    Ensemble: Concerto Köln.
    • La Prise de la Bastille. Music of the French Revolution.
    • Capriccio.
    • 10.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G minor Op.23 no. 5

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Yuja Wang - The Berlin Recital.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Seckou Keita

    Simply Beautiful Miro (Arr. by Davide Mantovani)

    Performer: Seckou Keita. Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Performer: Suntou Susso. Conductor: Mark Heron. Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra.
    • Simply Beautiful Miro (Arr. by Davide Mantovani).
    • Claves Records.
    • 1.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.22 (3rd mvt: Presto)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Emmanuel Krivine.
    • ERATO.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Indes Galantes: Chaconne

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Brüggen.
    • Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Suite: Orchestra of the 18th Century, Bruggen.
    • Philips.
    • 22.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Ave Maria

    Choir: VocalEssence. Singer: Ryan French. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • Got the Saint Louis Blues.
    • Clarion.
    • 11.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Valse carnavalesque for 2 pianos, Op.73

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Peter Jablonski.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Quartet concertante No.4 in F major

    Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet.
    • Saint-Georges: 6 Quartetto concertans.
    • Naxos.
    • 7-8.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Venetian Gondola Song (Songs without words, Op. 30 No. 6)

    Performer: Peter Donohoe.
    • Chandos.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    La Barcheta [Venezia]

    Music Arranger: Tom Poster. Singer: Karim Sulayman. Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Hahn: La Barcheta (arranged for Tenor & Piano Quinet by Tom Poster).
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Horovitz

    Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano: I. Allegro calmato

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • Michael Collins Plays British Clarinet Sonatas, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.
  • Jacques Ibert

    Divertissement for orchestra (Valse)

    Orchestra: Paris Conservatoire Orchestra. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • Ibert: Divertissement / Bizet: Jeux D'Enfants - Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, M.
    • Decca.

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