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Classical music to start the day

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

Mon 20 Nov 2023 06:30

Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Romances sans paroles [ Songs without words], Op.17 No.3 & No.1

    Performer: Roxane Elfasci.
    • COSMOS RECORDS.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Pange lingua

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Bruckner: Mass in E minor/Motets: Polyphony/Britten Sinfonia/Layton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite no.3 in C major BWV1009 (Prelude, Allemande)

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.
    • J. S. Bach, The Cello Suites: Yo-Yo Ma.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Legend in G minor, Op.59 no.3

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Philips.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Intimate Sketches (Just blind fate; Waiting for You)

    Performer: Olena Kushpler.
    • AVI MUSIC.
  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto grosso in F major Op.1`1

    Ensemble: Raglan Baroque Players. Director: Nicholas Kraemer.
    • HYPERION.
  • Gustav Holst

    Second Dance (Beni Mora)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Holst: Orchestral Works, Volume 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Concerto No.5 "The Egyptian" in F major, Op.103 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Louis Schwizgebel. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos 2 & 5.
    • APARTE.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Les Fees du Rhin (Overture)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Offenbach - Le Romantique.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 5.
  • Graciela Agudelo

    D铆as de lluvia [Rainy Days]

    Performer: Antonio Oyarzabal.
    • PIXAUDIO.
  • Antoine Brumel

    Missa Et Ecce Terrae Motus (Agnus Dei)

    Ensemble: amarcord. Ensemble: Calmus Ensemble Leipzig.
    • Leipziger Disputation.
    • Carus.
    • 13.
  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor, Op.26 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G major, Kk.455

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • DG.
  • Robert Burns

    Green Grow The Rashes O

    Composer: Serge Hovey. Singer: Jean Redpath. Performer: Elizabeth Metcalfe. Ensemble: The Alcott Ensemble.
    • The Songs Of Robert Burns, Vols. 3 & 4.
    • Philo.
    • 13.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Aram Khachaturian.
    • Legends - Khachaturian: Spartacus: Wiener Philharmoniker.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Trad.

    Sogna fiore mio [Dream my flower]

    Music Arranger: Ambrogio Sparagna. Singer: Lucilla Galeazzi. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Spanish Dance in A minor Op.65 no.2

    Ensemble: Duo Scaramouche.
    • Duo Scaramouche - Grieg, Moszkowski, Brahms.
    • Scar.
    • 11.
  • Emilie Mayer

    Symphony no.6 in E major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Philharmonisches Orchester Bremerhaven. Conductor: Marc Niemann.
    • Emilie Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 3.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 104.
  • John Philip Sousa

    Liberty Bell

    Ensemble: The Band of the Coldstream Guards. Conductor: Major Roger G. Swift.
    • DENON.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laetatus sum

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Akin Euba

    'Three Friends'; 'On the hill and on the plain' (Yoruba Songs without Words Nos 1 and 3)

    Performer: Rebeca Omordia. Performer: Abdelkader Saadoun.
    • SOMM.
  • Stephen Sondheim

    Now (A Little Night Music)

    Singer: Joss Ackland. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Ray Cook. Singer: Veronica Page.
    • RCA RECORDS.
  • Hubert Parry

    Cello Sonata in A major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Watkins. Performer: Huw Watkins.
    • Chandos.

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