Brighten your day with classical music
Al Ryan presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.
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Maurice Ravel
Rapsodie espagnole (1st mvt 'Prelude a la nuit')
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.- ONYX.
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Ennio Morricone
Deborah's Theme (Once Upon a Time in America)
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Mauceri.- The Genius of Film Music. Hollywood Blockbusters 1960s-80s.
- LPO.
- 4.
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Charles Gounod
Petite Symphonie (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- Gounod/Bizet: Symphony no.1/L'Arlesienne: St Paul Chamber Orch/Hogwood.
- Decca.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Magnificat in D major BWV 243 (1st - 4th mvts)
Singer: Miah Persson. Singer: Yukari Nonoshita. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.- BIS.
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Florence Price
String Quartet No 2: Juba
Ensemble: Avalon String Quartet.- Price & Sowerby: Music for String Quartet.
- Naxos.
- 103.
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Alessandro Marcello
Adagio from Oboe concerto in D minor (transcribed for trumpet & orchestra)
Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: Pinnock's Players. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- Warner Classics.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No 29 (4th 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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Alfredo Catalani
Contemplazione
Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.- Riccardo Muti Conducts Italian Masters.
- Sony Classical.
- 3.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 1 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Herbert Schuch. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Tung-Chieh Chuang.- BERLIN 1923 - Beethoven & Schulhoff: Piano Concertos.
- Avi-music.
- 3.
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Helen Leach
Diary of the Bee: I. Bluebell
Performer: John Bradbury. Ensemble: Victoria String Quartet.- Diary of the Bee: Chamber Works by Helen Leach.
- Divine Art.
- 10.
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Joseph Holbrooke
Violin Concerto in F Major Op.59 'The Grasshopper (1st mvt)
Performer: Judith Ingolfsson. Orchestra: Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.- Holbrooke: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 2.
- CPO.
- 201.
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Cristóbal de Morales
Parce mihi Domine (Officium Defunctorum)
Ensemble: The Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.- Lux Aeterna.
- Hyperion.
- 6.
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Leonard Bernstein
Times Square (On the Town)
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- Sony Classical.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture-Suite in G Major, 'Burlesque de Quixotte' (His Fight with the Windmills)
Ensemble: Ensemble Masques. Director: Olivier Fortin.- Alpha.
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Bohuslav Martinů
Symphony No.2 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: ĢƵ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.- ONYX.
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Gerald Finzi
My Spirit Sang All Day, Op.17 no.3
Ensemble: Apollo5.- O Radiant Dawn.
- VCM.
- 15.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony no.4 in A major, Op.90 'Italian' (1st mvt)
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- CHANDOS.
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Claudio Monteverdi
L'Orfeo (Toccata)
Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.- Naive.
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Ruth Gipps
Horn Concerto (3rd mvt)
Performer: Martin Owen. Orchestra: ĢƵ Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.- CHANDOS.
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Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations
Orchestra: ĢƵ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.- Elgar: Enigma Variations; In the South & Other Orchestral Works.
- Hyperion.
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Johannes Brahms
String Sextet No 1 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.- Brahms: String Sextets.
- ALPHA.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in C major for 2 trumpets RV.537
Performer: Håkan Hardenberger. Performer: Reinhold Friedrich. Orchestra: I Musici.- Philips.
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