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Classical sunrise

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

Wed 10 Jan 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits; Che puro ciel (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Orchestra: Arcangelo. Director: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Handel/Hasse/Gluck/Arne/Smith: Arias for Gudagni: Iestyn Davies/Arcangelo/Jonath.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15-16.
  • John Eccles

    The Mad Lover Suite: Ground. Aire V

    Performer: Th茅otime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 902305DI.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons (January - By the Fireside)

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quartet in E flat, Op 47 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sanctus... Osanna in excelsis (Mass in B minor, BWV 232)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • J. S. Bach, Mass in B minor: Dunedin Consort and Players.
    • Linn.
    • 22.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Giulio Cesare, HWV 17, Act I, Scene 9: Va tacito

    Performer: Anneke Scott. Performer: Miriam Kaczor. Music Arranger: John Walsh. Orchestra: Irish Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Whelan.
    • Linn.
  • Josephine Lang

    Scheideblick

    Singer: Catriona Morison. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Linn.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    5 Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Frank Bridge

    The Bee

    Choir: Tenebrae. Director: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Pelham Humfrey

    Where the bee sucks

    Singer: Robin Blaze. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
    • Hyperion.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesfreud (Old Viennese Dances)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Naoko Tanaka. Orchestrator: Clark McAlister.
    • Romances: Gil Shaham/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in F minor, Op.70`2

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 12.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Don Pasquale: Sogno soave e casto

    Singer: Stephen Costello. Orchestra: Kauno Miesto Simfoninis Orkestras. Conductor: Constantine Orbelian.
    • A te, o cara.
    • Delos.
    • 501.
  • Robert Schumann

    German Waltz (Carnaval)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • In the Night.
    • HYPERION.
    • 23.
  • Robert Schumann

    Intermezzo Paganini (Carnaval, Op 9)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • In the Night.
    • HYPERION.
    • 24.
  • Franz Schubert

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

    Performer: Heinrich Schiff. Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Cathal MacGarvey

    The Star of the County Down

    Singer: John McCormack.
    • Favourite Irish Ballads & Songs.
    • MVE.
    • 9.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Maurice Ravel: Ma M猫re L鈥檕ye; Bol茅ro; Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales; Pavane Pou.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Clifford Brown & Max Roach

    Take the a Train (Remastered)

    • Study in Brown (Remastered).
    • Avid Entertainment.
    • 9.
  • Henry Purcell

    Music for a While

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Performer: Anna Tilbrook.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Valsa da dor for piano

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Brasileiro: Villa-Lobos and Friends.
    • Decca.
    • 10.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Saudades das Selvas Brasilieras No. 2

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Brasileiro - Villa-Lobos & Friends.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 11.
  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Intermezzo (Hary Janos Suite, Op.35a)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Kodaly: "Hary Janos" Suite: Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 15.
  • Johann Christoph Bach

    Lieber Herr Gott, wecke uns auf

    Choir: T枚lzer Knabenchor. Conductor: Gerhard Schmidt鈥怗aden.
    • Baroque Christmas.
    • Capriccio.
    • 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No.5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor": III. Rondo. Allegro

    Performer: Martin Helmchen. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos 2 & 5 "Emperor".
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 6.
  • Alun Hoddinott

    Investiture Dances, op.66: 3rd mvt Presto

    Orchestra: National Youth Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes.
    • Elgar Symphony No.2: Hoddinott Investiture Dances.
    • Divine Art.
    • 7.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String quartet in E flat major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.
    • Mendelssohn: Felix & Fanny: Quatuor Ebene.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 6.

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