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Christmas Day sunrise classical

Join Hannah and the team for a Christmas Day special featuring listener requests.

Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Christmas Day 2023 06:30

Music Played

  • Gian Carlo Menotti

    Suite from Amahl and the night visitors

    Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Heritage Records.
  • George Butterworth

    Banks of Green Willow (vocal version)

    Music Arranger: S Chenery. Choir: Opus Anglicanum.
    • The Seeds of Love.
    • HERALD.
    • 024.
  • Ivor Gurney

    Nocturne in A flat major

    Performer: Richard Saxel.
    • Quartz Music.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christmas Oratorio, Part 1 Nos 4,5,7 and 9

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.
  • John Fox

    Carol Fantasia

    Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Another Night Before Christmas & Scrooge.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Trad.

    Et barn er fodt i Betlehem (A Child is Born in Bethlehem)

    Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir.
    • BIS.
  • Hans Pfitzner

    Das Christ-Elflein, Op. 20: Overture

    Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Kurt Eichhorn.
    • Pfitzner: Das Christelflein, Op. 20.
    • Orfeo.
    • 101.
  • 罢谤盲诲

    Ding! Dong! Merrily on High

    Music Arranger: Charles Wood. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Director: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 1333439.
    • 109.
  • Harry J. Lincoln

    Halley's Comet

    Performer: Paul Guinery.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Das newgebohrne Kindelein, BuxWV 13

    Choir: Musica Lingua. Orchestra: L鈥檃rpa festante. Conductor: Stephan Schreckenberger.
    • Silent Night.
    • Genuin.
    • 106.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Berceuse (Dolly Suite, Op.56)

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que.
    • Bizet, Ravel, Faure: Katia & Marielle Labeque.
    • Philips.
    • 13.
  • Trad.

    No毛l Nouvelet

    Ensemble: Zefiro Torna.
    • BEVRT.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.83 in G minor "The Hen" (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Handel and Haydn Society of Boston. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    O taste and see

    Singer: Thomas Mullock. Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Director: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Hear My Words: Choral Classics from St John's: Choir of St John's College, Cambr.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Trad.

    We Wish You a Merry Christmas

    Composer: Anon.. Ensemble: Harmonic Brass.
    • Joy to the World.
    • Brass Works Munich.
    • 24.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Fantasia 脿 3, MB.48.14

    Ensemble: Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.
    • Music for Prince Charles: The Parley of Instruments/Holman.
    • Hyperion.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Der Schneemann (Prelude; Serenade)

    Performer: Heinz Haunold. Orchestrator: Alexander von Zemlinsky. Orchestra: Bruckner Orchestra of Linz. Conductor: Caspar Richter.
    • Korngold Orchestral Music.
    • ASV.
    • 8-9.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Cello Sonata In D Minor, Op 40 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Olli Mustonen.
    • Shostakovich & Kabalevsky: Cello Sonatas.
    • 002.
  • Alessandro Stradella

    Ah! Troppo 猫 ver, GM 1.5 1: I. Sinfonia

    Orchestra: Orchestra Barocca della Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano. Conductor: Enrico Gatti.
    • Stradella: Cantate per il ss:mo natale.
    • Arcana.
    • 1.
  • Morten Lauridsen

    O Magnum Mysterium

    Ensemble: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Advent Calendar.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.
  • Rollins

    Frosty the Snowman

    Composer: Nelson. Singer: Gene Autry.
    • Magical Christmas - 50 Ultimate Christmas Hits.
    • MD Just Christmas.
    • 13.
  • Alma Deutscher

    The Star of Hope (From "Cinderella")

    Performer: Alma Deutscher.
    • From My Book of Melodies.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Trad.

    In dulci jubilo

    Music Arranger: Robert Pearsall. Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.
    • 00028948548057.
    • 12.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E Major RV.270 "Il riposo, per il Santissimo Natale"

    Performer: Fredrik From. Orchestra: Concerto Copenhagen. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
    • Per la notte di Natale: Italian Christmas Concertos.
    • Naxos.
    • 302.
  • Ben Morales Frost

    What Will This New Day Bring?

    Choir: City of London Choir. Performer: Bozidar Vukotic. Performer: Timothy End. Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton.
    • Bridewell records.
  • Hugh Martin

    Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

    Composer: Ralph Blane. Singer: Ella Fitzgerald.
    • Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas (Remastered).
    • Remastered Collections.
    • 9.

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