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Your classical alarm call

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

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 17 Nov 2023 06:30

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Andrew Marriner. Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Jane Glover.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • Christopher H Harris

    Bring me all your dreams

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio No. 44 in E Major, Hob. XV:28: I. Allegro moderato

    Ensemble: Trio Gaspard.
    • Trio Gaspard Live in Berlin.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 101.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Vergn眉gte Ruh', beliebte Seelenlust (Cantata no.170)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Collegium Vocale Orchestra. Director: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Bach: Cantatas for alto (BWV 170, 54, 35): Scholl/Collegium Vocale/Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Henriette Reni茅

    Danse des Lutins

    Performer: Judy Loman.
    • Harp Showpieces.
    • Naxos.
    • 009.
  • Abel Selaocoe

    Lerato / Love

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Performer: Colin Alexander. Performer: Fred Thomas. Performer: Mamadou Sarr. Performer: Max Baillie. Performer: Sidiki Demb茅l茅. Performer: Simmy Singh. Singer: Alan Keary.
    • Where is Home / Hae Ke Kae.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes and Impromptus: Angela Hewitt, piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Havanaise Op.83

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • EMI.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Hallelujah (Messiah)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • Handel: Messiah: Dunedin Consort & Players.
    • Linn.
  • Florence Price

    String Quartet No 1 in G major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Viano Quartet.
    • Portraits.
    • Curtis Studio.
    • 3.
  • Maurice Greene

    Happy ye leaves (Spenser's Amoretti, No 2)

    Singer: Benjamin Hulett. Performer: Luke Green.
    • Naxos.
  • Richard Strauss

    Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 11: III. Allegro

    Performer: Dennis Brain. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • R.Strauss & Hindemith: Horn Concertos etc/Dennis Brain.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    To Sweeten Bitter, written and read by Raymond Antrobus

  • Harold Arlen

    Cocoanut Sweet (Jamaica)

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Performer: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Philips.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto No 2 in F major, Op 102 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.
    • Leonard Bernstein plays and conducts Beethoven/Mozart/Schumann etc.
    • Sony Music.
    • 5.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Concerto in F minor for bass tuba and orch: 2nd mvt; Romanza (Andante sostenuto)

    Performer: John Fletcher. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • RCA Red Seal.
  • Michael League

    Sant Esteve

    Composer: Bill Laurance. Performer: Michael League. Performer: Bill Laurance.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Aria (Bachiana brasileira no.5)

    Singer: Ren茅e Fleming. Orchestra: New World Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • RCA.
    • 5.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14 (arr. for Brass Septet & Percussion): Overture

    Performer: Scott Lumsdaine. Music Arranger: Matthew Knight. Music Arranger: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14 (Excerpts Arr. for Brass Septet & Per.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.
  • Dario Marianelli

    Paddington 2 "The Pop-Up Book"

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Dario Marianelli.
    • Paddington 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 2.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of youth - suite no.2 Op.1b (The Tame Bear)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • The Wand Of Youth Suites etc..
    • Halle.
    • 13.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No.4 in A major, Op.90, 'Italian' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph von Dohn谩nyi.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos.3 - 5; THe Hebrides, etc. - Wiener Philharmoniker, D.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Charles Avison

    Concerto Grosso in E flat major, Op 10 No 5 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.
    • The Avison Ensemble: Avison: Concerti Grossi, op. 9 & op. 10.
    • Divine Art.
    • 30.
  • Maurice Durufl茅

    Requiem Op.9 (Sanctus)

    Choir: Choir of University College, Durham. Performer: Imogen Morgan. Conductor: Will Sims.
    • Priory.
  • Carlos Gardel

    Por una cabeza

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Alexander Sitkovetsky. Performer: Leonard Elschenbroich. Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.
    • Nicola Benedetti: The Silver Violin.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

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