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Ease into the day 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

Mon 12 Feb 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Apres un reve

    Music Arranger: Pau Casals. Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Decca.
  • Karl Jenkins

    Locus iste

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Karl Jenkins: Motets.
    • DG.
    • 10.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor, Op 10 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • John Dowland

    Time stands still

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto in G minor after BWV 1056

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque - J.S. Bach violin concertos.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 7.
  • George Gershwin

    It Ain't Necessarily So (Porgy and Bess)

    Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Performer: Andr茅 Previn. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
    • Anne-Sophie Mutter - Tango Song and Dance.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Frederick Delius

    A Song Before Sunrise

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • Favourite British Music.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
    • 6.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante E-Flat, K. 297b (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Gordon Hunt. Performer: Meyrick Alexander. Performer: Michael Thompson. Orchestra: London Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Warren鈥怗reen.
    • Symphony No.29.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Franz Liszt

    19 Hungarian rhapsodies S.244 (no.11 in A minor)

    Performer: Alexandre Kantorow.
    • Brahms, Bart贸k & Liszt: Piano Works.
    • BIS.
    • 104.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G: Rondo all' ongarese

    Ensemble: Trio Fontenay.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios: Trio Fontenay.
    • Teldec.
    • 9.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Overture, Op 21)

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Ozawa.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Hannah Peel

    Sunrise through the Dusty Nebula

    Ensemble: Tubular Brass. Conductor: Sandy Smith.
    • My Own Pleasure.
  • John Ireland

    The Three Ravens

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Ashley Riches.
    • A Musical Zoo.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 15.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Forlane (Le Tombeau de Couperin)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Ravel, Berkeley, Pounds: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • George Gershwin

    Rhapsody in Blue (jazz band version)

    Performer: George Gershwin. Music Arranger: Ferde Grof茅. Orchestra: Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra.
    • NAXOS.
  • Nadia Boulanger

    Cantique

    Performer: Myra Huang. Singer: Nicholas Phan.
    • Clairi猫res: Songs by Lili & Nadia Boulanger.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 5.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in B flat major, Op.130 (5th mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • ECM.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in E flat, Op 18: 'Grande valse brillante'

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Waltzes: Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • William Lawes

    Royall consort suite no. 8 in C major

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Phantasm. Director: Laurence Dreyfus.
    • LINN.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Avant le cin茅ma

    Performer: Francis Poulenc. Singer: Pierre Bernac.
    • Soir茅e Fran莽aise.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • Georges Delerue

    Le Grand Choral

    Conductor: Georges Delerue.
    • Fantastic Mr. Fox (Original Soundtrack).
    • ABKCO (US).
    • 20.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les Tendres Plaintes

    Performer: Jean Rondeau.
    • Vertigo.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 103.
  • Hubert Bath

    Cornish Rhapsody

    Performer: Philip Fowke. Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Proinns铆as 脫 Duinn.
    • Piano Concertos from the Movies.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.

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