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Launch the day with classical music

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Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    Standchen (Schwanengesang)

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
    • Romantic Piano Masters.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.

  • Benjamin Britten

    4 Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Moonlight)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Britten: Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra: Bergen P.O., Neeme Jarvi.
    • BIS.
    • 8.

  • Josef Ignaz Schnabel

    Quintet for Guitar & String Quartet in C Major (1st mvt, Larghetto - Allegro)

    Performer: Han Jonkers. Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Bayer.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mein Wandel auf der Welt (Cantata BWV 56 'Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen')

    Singer: Peter Harvey. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SDG.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Endlich, endlich wird mein Joch (Cantata BWV 56 'Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen')

    Singer: Peter Harvey. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SDG.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 3, 'Eroica' (3rd mvt, Scherzo. Allegro vivace)

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Ádám Fischer.
    • Beethoven: Complete Symphonies.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Frank Bridge

    A Sea-Idyll

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Bridge - PIano Sonata etc Kathryn Stott.
    • Conifer.
    • 2.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E Flat Major, RV 253 'La Tempesta di Mare'

    Performer: Adrian Chandler. Orchestra: La Serenissima.
    • Vivaldi Opus 8, Vol. 1: The Four Seasons and other concertos.
    • Signum Records.
    • 14.

  • Hubert Parry

    Never weather beaten sail (Songs of Farewell)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Songs of Farewell.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 503.

  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the Shore

    Performer: A4 Brass Quartet.
    • Mosaic.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 8.

  • Lilian Elkington

    Out of the Mist

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd‐Jones.
    • Edward Elgar - The Spirit of England.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 7.

  • Henry Purcell

    Come Away, Fellow Sailors (Dido and Aeneas)

    Singer: Laurence Kilsby. Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 26.

  • Franz Liszt

    Ellens Gesang (Ave Maria) after Schubert

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Liszt.
    • Decca.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Bali Ha'i (South Pacific)

    Composer: Oscar Hammerstein II. Singer: Juanita Hall. Choir: Ken Darby Singers. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Alfred Newman.
    • South Pacific Soundtrack.
    • Soundtrack Classics.
    • 8.

Broadcast

  • Saturday06:30
    BBC Radio 3