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Start the day right with classical music

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 26 Sep 2023 06:30

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet No 21 in D major, K 575 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Mozart: String Quartets KV 421 & 575.
    • DG.
    • 5.
  • Johannes Ciconia

    Petrum Marcello venetum

    Ensemble: Mala Punica. Conductor: Pedro Memelsdorff.
    • Erato.
  • Amy Beach

    Dreaming

    Performer: Judith Herbert. Performer: Diana Ambache.
    • Beach: Violin Sonata Etc. - Ambache.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Geshwinde, geshwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde (Cantata 201, opening chorus)

    Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan.
    • J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 9 鈥 The Contest Between Phoebus and Pan.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Italian Serenade

    Performer: Nardo Poy. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
  • Henry Purcell

    The Indian Queen (Act 2: Trumpet Tune)

    Performer: John Wallace. Performer: Michael Bochmann. Ensemble: Wallace Collection. Singer: Edward Barham. Choir: Leeds Festival Chorus. Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: William Boughton.
    • Rule Britanna.
    • Nimbus.
    • 17.
  • Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie

    Burns [Scottish rhapsody no.2] Op.24 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Orchestral Music.
    • HYPERION.
    • 11.
  • George Butterworth

    Is my team ploughing? (6 Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad')

    Singer: Christopher Maltman. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Songs of Travel.
    • Hyperion.
    • 31.
  • 脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Cannaris in D minor (Pi猫ces de clavecin,1687)

    Performer: Karen Flint.
    • Jacquet de la Guerre: Complete Works for Harpsichord.
    • Plectra.
    • 7.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quintet in C major, D.956 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Heinrich Schiff. Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Alessandro (Overture)

    Orchestra: The Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Handel: Arias and Duets from the era of 'The Rival Queens'.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • POEM

    "The Leveret" by Michael Longley, read by Michael Longley

  • Leokadiya Kashperova

    The Murmur of the Wheat (In the Midst of Nature, No. 5)

    Performer: Sarah Cahill.
    • The Future is Female, Vol 1: In Nature.
    • FHR.
    • 7.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Sinfonietta, 1st movement

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.
    • DG.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Deux Poemes de Louis Aragon

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Laurence Kilsby.
    • STONE RECORDS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 52 in C Minor, Hob. I:52: I. Allegro assai con brio

    Conductor: Rebecca Miller. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 52, 53 & 59.
    • Signum Records.
    • 5.
  • Gra偶yna Bacewicz

    Polish Caprice

    Performer: Rosalind Ventris.
    • Kaprys Polski.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 1.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Nisi Dominus a 10 (Vespro della Beata Vergine, 1610)

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Claudio Monteverdi, Vespers of 1610.
    • Coro.
    • 8.
  • Rebekah Reid

    Sarabande for Four No.1 Op.1

    • Selected Works Vol. 1.
    • Self release.
    • 11.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Les baricades mist茅rieuses (Pi猫ces de clavecin, Ordre no.6)

    Performer: Sophie Yates.
    • La Sophie: Sophie Yates.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • George Gershwin

    Variations on 'I got rhythm'

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & Piano Concerto: Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon noni toni 脿 12

    Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts.
    • HYPERION.
  • Frank Bridge

    Valse intermezzo

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Bridge: Orchestral works vol.5: 大象传媒 NOW/Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 14.

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