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Start the day on the right note with classical music

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Sun 2 Aug 2026 06:30
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Music Played

  • F茅lix Godefroid

    Carnaval de Venise

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre.
    • Notte Veneziana.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 21.

  • Samuel Coleridge鈥怲aylor

    Children's Intermezzo (Othello)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Fawzi Haimor.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Othello, Op. 79: II. Children's Intermezzo.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without Words in A major, Op 62 No 6, 'Fr眉hlingslied' (Spring Song)

    Performer: Peter Donohoe.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Anon.

    Jeux Interdits - Spanish Romance (arr. for guitar and orchestra)

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Watkins.
    • Deutsch Grammophon.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wie sch枚n leuchtet der Morgenstern (Cantata no.1)

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Choir: Amsterdam Baroque Choir. Director: Ton Koopman.
    • Bach - Complete Cantatas 13.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 1.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Feuillet d'album

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: William Bennett. Performer: James Campbell. Performer: David Campbell. Performer: Rachel Gough. Performer: Robin Kennard. Performer: Richard Watkins. Performer: Robert Maskell. Music Arranger: Paul Taffanel.
    • Debussy/Saint-Saens: Complete Chamber Music for Woodwinds.
    • Cala.
    • 6.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon in D major

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Musiques de cin茅ma - Pachelbel: Canon (From "Ordinary People").
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Haydn Wood

    An Evening Song

    Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Wood: Paris Suite / A May-Day Overture.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 1.

  • Anton Webern

    Lagngsamer satz

    Ensemble: Kleio Quartet.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Madam Butterfly; Humming Chorus

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Puccini: Madama Butterfly.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.

  • Ulysses Kay

    Tender Thought

    Performer: William Chapman Nyaho.
    • Kete - Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora.
    • MSR Classics.
    • 2.

  • Florence Price

    Ticklin' Toes

    Performer: William Chapman Nyaho.
    • Kete - Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora.
    • MSR Classics.
    • 8.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Masques et Bergamasques

    Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra Basel. Conductor: Ivor Bolton.
    • The Secret Faur茅 2.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 6.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 40 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Mathieu Herzog. Orchestra: Ensemble Appassionato.
    • Mozart: The Last Three Symphonies.
    • NAIVE.
    • 7.

  • Aaron Copland

    The Cat and the Mouse

    • Summertime.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 13.

  • Edmond D茅d茅

    Morgiane: Overture

    Conductor: Patrick Dupr茅 Quigley. Orchestra: Opera Lafayette Orchestra.
    • Edmond D茅d茅: Morgiane, ou, Le sultan d'Ispahan.
    • Delos.
    • 1.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Piano Concerto No 1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Elim Chan.
    • Chopin Piano Concertos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..

  • Marek Pasieczny

    Abbatia Fontium: III. Turris

    Performer: Alberto Crugnola.
    • SLE London Records.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Bassoon Concerto in B flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sergio Azzolini. Orchestra: Streicherakademie Bozen.
    • C.P.E. Bach: Bassoon Music / Werke f眉r Fagott.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.

  • Karl Jenkins

    Adiemus

    Singer: Miriam Stockley. Singer: Mary Carewe. Performer: Pamela Thorby. Performer: Mike Ratledge. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Jenkins.
    • Songs Of Sanctuary.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 101.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Suite for Strings (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
    • American and English Orchestral Music.
    • CLAVES RECORDS.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No 3 "Rhenish" (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Schumann Complete Symphonies.
    • PLATOON.
    • 9.

  • Tom谩s Bret贸n

    La Verbena de La Paloma: "Preludio"

    Conductor: Ata煤lfo Argenta. Orchestra: Gran Orquesta Sinf贸nica.
    • La Zarzuela: La Verbena de la Paloma.
    • Homokord.
    • 1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 2

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: P茅ter Nagy.
    • Brahms: Violin Concerto; Hungarian Dances; Bart贸k: Rhapsodies.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.

Broadcast

  • Sun 2 Aug 2026 06:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3