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Get going with classical

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 1 Dec 2023 06:30

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 8 in C Minor, Op. 13, "Pathetique": II. Adagio cantabile

    Performer: Fazil Say.
    • Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 28.
  • Edward Elgar

    Three Part-songs, Op. 18: I. O Happy Eyes

    Lyricist: Alice Elgar. Choir: Finzi Singers. Director: Paul Spicer.
    • Elgar: Part Songs.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Edward Elgar

    Three Part-songs, Op. 18: II. Love

    Lyricist: Arthur Maquarie. Choir: Finzi Singers. Director: Paul Spicer.
    • Elgar: Part Songs.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Edward Elgar

    Three Part-songs, Op. 18: III. My Love dwelt in a Northern Land

    Lyricist: Andrew Lang. Choir: Finzi Singers. Director: Paul Spicer.
    • Elgar: Part Songs.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Gra偶yna Bacewicz

    String Quartet No. 4: III.

    Ensemble: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.
    • Reflections: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam.
    • Rubicon.
    • 13.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude & Fugue in C Major, BWV 545 - II. Fugue

    Performer: David Halls.
    • J.S. Bach from Salisbury.
    • Priory.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for Violin and Strings in F minor, Op 8, No 4, RV.297 'L'inverno'

    Performer: Catherine Mackintosh. Performer: Nigel North. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Carl Orff

    Carmina Burana: Amor volat undique

    Singer: Ann Liebeck. Choir: New London Children鈥檚 Choir. Orchestra: London Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Ross Pople.
    • Ultimate Classics - Orff: Carmina Burana.
    • ARTE NOVA Classics.
    • 15.
  • Augusta Holm猫s

    Ludus pro patria: II. La Nuit et l'Amour

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider.
    • Aux 茅toiles - French Symphonic Poems.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 7.
  • Franz Liszt

    Piano Concerto No 1 in E-Flat Major, S. 124: I. Allegro maestoso

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Martha Argerich - Concertos.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • George Gershwin

    Gershwin Song Suite - I. Fascinating Rhythm (Version for Solo Violin, Jazz Trio and String Orchestra)

    Lyricist: Ira Gershwin. Ensemble: Z眉rcher Kammerorchester. Orchestra: Marcus Roberts Trio. Conductor: Daniel Hope.
    • America.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Amy Beach

    Communion Service in A: II. Gloria in excelsis

    Choir: St. Bartholomew's Choir. Director: Paolo Bordignon.
    • Stokowski and St. Bartholomew's Choir - A Prodigious Pairing.
    • MSR Classics.
    • 8.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia, Op 26

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • EMI.
  • John Corigliano

    Symphony No.1: Epilogue

    Performer: John Sharp. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • ERATO.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    Frozen In, written and read by Jo Bell

  • Svante Henryson

    Melting Ice

    Performer: Ketil Bj酶rnstad. Performer: Svante Henryson.
    • Ketil Bj酶rnstad & Svante Henryson: Night Song.
    • ECM.
    • 9.
  • Ennio Morricone

    Love Theme from 'Cinema Paradiso'

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: St茅phane Den猫ve.
    • 颁颈苍茅尘补.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 15 in B flat major, K 450 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Mozart: Piano concerto no.15/Symphony no.36: Bernstein/Wiener Philharmoniker.
    • Decca.
  • Clarence Cameron White

    Basque folk song

    Performer: Marcus Eley. Performer: Lucerne DeSa.
    • Sono Luminus.
  • Francis Poulenc

    O magnum mysterium (4 Motets pour le temps de No毛l)

    Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Nativitas, A celebration of peace: Choir of New College, Oxford/Higginbottom.
    • Erato.
    • 13.
  • 脡tienne M茅hul

    Symphony No. 1 G Minor: IV. Finale. Allegro agitato

    Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg. Conductor: Christoph Koenig.
    • M茅hul: Symphony No. 1 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica".
    • RUBICON.
    • 104.
  • Edward MacDowell

    Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: I. To A Wild Rose (Arr. for Cornet and Brass Band)

    Music Arranger: Alan Fernie. Performer: Phillip McCann. Performer: Sellers Engineering Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • World's Most Beautiful Melodies, Vol. 5.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: movements 18 - 24

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein.
    • Rhapsody.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Stephen Sondheim

    Comedy Tonight

    Ensemble: The New York Theatre Orchestra.
    • The Best Of Broadway - New York City.
    • Broadway Boulevard Records.
    • 6.
  • Reinhold Moritzevich Gli猫re

    Harp Concerto Op.74 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Masters. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Joseph Haydn

    'Nelson Mass' H.22.11 (Agnus Dei)

    Singer: Letizia Scherrer. Singer: Roxana Constantinescu. Singer: Maximilian Schmitt. Singer: Michael Nagy. Ensemble: Bach鈥怌ollegium Stuttgart. Conductor: Helmuth Rilling.
    • HANSSLER CLASSIC.

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