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Hannah French

@hannahcfrench.bsky.social

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Presenter: @BBCRadio3’s The Early Music Show & Saturday Breakfast Author: Sir Henry Wood Champion of JS Bach and The Rolling Year: Listening to the seasons with Vivaldi

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · 8h

Essential Classics mode on #bbcradio3 this morning.

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · 6d

Your new @bbcradio3 Saturday Breakfast team!
Producer @zerlinavulliamy and I have your musical start to the weekend lined up. Whatever you’re up to, let us know if there’s anything you’d like to hear: [email protected].

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · 20d

Laurie! Morning lovely X

Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · 20d

Morning #BBCRadio3 Breakfasters!

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · 27d

Morning #BBCradio3 Breakfasters

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · Aug 29

Morning #bbcradio3 breakfasters!
Proud of myself for setting up the desk this morning. House martins and a finch alongside Bach, Dvorak, and Verdi before 7.

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · Aug 28

Morning! Memories of #bbcradio3 Beat Beethoven on Breakfast today. Plus Vivaldi, Farrenc, Parry & Bach before 7. Kettle on!

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · Aug 27

Oh hello Polly!

Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · Aug 27

Morning #bbcradio3 breakfasters! Fun stuff in this week’s time capsule studio! Fortunately all the current tech is behind me… Chopin, Mendelssohn, Bach and some Black Guillemots before 7!

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · Aug 26

Morning #BBCRadio3 Breakfasters! Mozart, Mussorgsky, and Murray Perahia all before 7 and later: Into the Woods… (with or without a whippet)

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · Aug 25

Ha! Though it's now ridiculously expensive. There's a very home-grown (terrible audio quality) mini podcast series to go with it...
open.spotify.com/show/2ZhbyEs...

6: Episode 6: farewell Henry & Seb

open.spotify.com

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · Aug 25

Morning! #BBCRadio3 Breakfast coming from London this week. It’s Proms Marathon Monday - what have been your favourite Proms so far?

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · Jun 29

SUMMER! Today’s Early Music Show @bbcradio3 has music for the wilting heat… When the storm breaks you need @erikbosgraaf - to whip up a Vivaldi-style storm but I went it alone though last year in Mantua when the heavens opened- my soggy sonic postcard for you too.
#vivaldi #thefourseasons #summer

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Royal Philharmonic Society @royalphilsoc.bsky.social · Jun 17

A musical giant with the tenderest touch, the great pianist Alfred Brendel has sadly died, aged 94. His performances will blaze in memory; his recordings will inspire for generations to come. He received the RPS Gold Medal in 1992, presented by fellow recipient Yehudi Menuhin.

Alfred Brendel receiving the RPS Gold Medal from Yehudi Menuhin

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · Jun 7

Yep, it happened. Barokksolistene turned the Saturday Morning studio into an Alehouse. #bbcradio3

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · Jun 7

I really have!

Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · Jun 7

Back in the Saturday Morning studio at Radio 3 and the stage is set…

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · Jun 1

☺️ v glad you enjoyed it!

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Portsmouth Baroque Choir @baroquechoir.bsky.social · Jun 1

Wonderful overview of Orlando Gibbons music by @hannahcfrench.bsky.social in BBC Early Music Show #gibbons400

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · Jun 1

Well there it was: ORLANDO GIBBONS Early Music Show on @bbcradio3. Would love to say I heard it but after my first day back directing a children’s choir this morning I’ve just slept through it. That’s what @bbcsounds is for… Stacks of great recordings of Gibbons out there! #gibbons400

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · May 31

Thank you for such an enjoyable interview and for playing for us @angejsb.bsky.social

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · May 31

My guest on Saturday Morning on Radio 3 this morning…

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · May 25

This is the link to the online archive we chat about in the show: www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2015/12...

jane-austen-music-books | University of Southampton

The music collection of novelist Jane Austen and her family is being made freely available to access online as part of a University of Southampton digital library project.

www.southampton.ac.uk

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Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · May 25

Jeanice, meet Jane! 5pm on @bbcradio3:
The Early Music Show makes a rare foray into the nineteenth century today. We go in search of Jane Austen’s musical life in the expert company of @jeanicebrooksmusic from @uni_southampton

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