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Emma Clarke presents Radio 3's Breakfast show.

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Emma Clarke presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. This morning's dawn chorus features the rock pipit, with brand new music from South African cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe, and there's a quiet moment with a stunning arrangement of Vaugh Williams' Lark Ascending, along with romance of one of Puccini's most famous arias.

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Music Played

  • Amy Beach

    Romance, Op. 23

    Performer: Himari. Performer: Chelsea Wang.
    • Beach: Romance, Op. 23.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Pietro Locatelli

    Introduzione teatrale in D Major, Op. 4 No. 1

    Music Arranger: Jelte Althuis. Ensemble: Calefax Reed Quintet.
    • Hidden Gems.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 101.

  • Abel Selaocoe

    Tsohle Tsohle

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Performer: Bernhard Schimpelsberger. Orchestrator: Benjamin Woodgates. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Four Spirits.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque no.1 in E major

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.3: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Symphony No.8 in A major; 3rd mvt Minuetto con molto & Trio

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Contemporaries of Mozart.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 07.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Music Arranger: Paul Drayton. Lyricist: George Meredith. Lyricist: George Meredith. Choir: London Choral Sinfonia. Choir: London Choral Sinfonia. Conductor: Michael Waldron. Conductor: Michael Waldron.
    • Colourise.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 501.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Little Polka (Jazz Suite No.2)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: Jazz Music.
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • Sylvius Leopold Weiss

    Sonata No. 33 in F Major: Fantasia; Allemande

    Performer: Evangelina Mascardi.
    • Weiss: Selected Works for Lute.
    • ARCANA.
    • 19.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Che gelida manina (La boh猫me)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marco Armiliato.
    • Jonas Kaufmann: Romantic Arias.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • William Grant Still

    Animal Sketches: Horse; Camel; Lamb

    Performer: Elizabeth Hill.
    • Arise and Shine.
    • Navona Records.
    • 20.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Overture in C major

    Orchestra: The Women鈥檚 Philharmonic. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Koch.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Carillon (Suite fran莽aise)

    Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Performer: John York.
    • ASV.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48, TH 48: II. Valse

    Ensemble: United Strings of Europe. Director: Julian Azkoul.
    • Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Souvenir de Florence, Andante Cantabile.
    • BIS.
    • 2.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    La Danza (Les Soirees musicales)

    Music Arranger: Erich Schagerl. Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Daniel Ottensamer. Performer: Ernst Ottensamer. Ensemble: Vienna Virtuosi.
    • The Clarinotts.
    • DG.
    • 6.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Young Prince and Princess (Sheherazade)

    Performer: Elise B氓tnes. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Lawo.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in C major H.15.21 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio Wanderer.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios, HOB. XV:14, 18, 21, 26 & 31.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 109.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid, BWV 3: Chorale "Erhalt mein Herz im Glauben rei

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • Bach: Chorale "Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid".
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ach, was soll ich S眉nder machen, BWV 259 (arr. for string quartet)

    • Bach: Chorale "Ach, was soll ich S眉nder machen".
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christus ist erstanden, hat 眉berwunden, BWV 284 (arr. for string quartet)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • Bach: Chorale "Christus ist erstanden, hat 眉berwunden".
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Who knows?

    Performer: Alexandra Mackenzie. Performer: Ingrid Sawers.
    • Beyond Twilight: Music for Cello & Piano by Female Composers.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 2.

  • Mar铆a Teresa Prieto

    El palo verde: III. Scherzino

    Orchestra: Cordoba Orchestra. Conductor: Jos茅 Luis Temes.
    • Verso.

  • Fanny H眉nerwadel

    Introductions, Variations et Rondo

    Performer: Adalberto Maria Riva.
    • Femmes Compositrices: Martines - Szymanowska - H眉nerwadel - Schumann - Cambiasi.
    • Cascavelle.
    • 5.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in A flat major Op.46 no.3

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann.
    • Dvorak: 16 Slavonic Dances: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Neumann.
    • Apex.
    • 3.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Orfeo ed Euridice: "Che far貌 senza Euridice"

    Singer: Jakub J贸zef Orli艅ski. Orchestra: Il Giardino d'Amore. Conductor: Stefan Plewniak.
    • Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30.
    • ERATO.
    • 22.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Harp Sonata (2nd mvmt, Lento)

    Performer: Maria Graf.
    • Harp Recital.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Libertango

    Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Piazzolla Reflections.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 15.

Broadcast

  • Sun 27 Jul 2025 06:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3