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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. Winner of Best Audio Arts and Music Programme (Voice of the Listener and Viewer Awards). Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 14 May 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    Marche militaire in D major, D.733 no.1

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires. Performer: H眉seyin Sermet.
    • Schubert: Fantasie...: Pires, Sermet.
    • Erato.
    • 2.
  • Andy Scott

    And Everything is Still

    Performer: Sheona White. Performer: Lauren Scott.
    • DOYEN.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Concert Piece No 2 in D minor, Op 114

    Orchestrator: Carl Baermann. Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Wolfgang Meyer. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Kenneth Sillito.
    • Weber, Mendelssohn etc.: Works for clarinet.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
    • 8-10.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Partita No. 1 in B Minor BWV 1002: Corrente and Double

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos.
    • Bach: Sei Solo.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No.4 in G major, Op.39

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Ivor Gurney

    Desire In Spring

    Singer: Paul Agnew. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Severn Meadows And Other Songs.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.
  • Cesar Cui

    Prelude in E major, Op 64 No 9

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Russian Piano Music: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Murder on the Orient Express (Waltz)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.
    • 100 Greatest Film Themes, Take 2.
    • Silva Screen.
    • 11.
  • Josef Myslivecek

    Overture in A major

    Ensemble: Concerto K枚ln. Director: Werner Ehrhardt.
    • Archiv.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Le corsaire

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Philips.
  • Liz Lane

    Serenata

    Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Jack Stamp.
    • Postcards from Grimethorpe.
    • Toccata Next.
    • 104.
  • Zygmunt Stojowski

    Romanze in E flat major Op. 20

    Performer: Bart艂omiej Nizio艂. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: 艁ukasz Borowicz.
    • Stojowski Violin Concerto / Wieniawski Fantasisie Brillante.
    • Hyperion.
    • 004.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen - II. Ging heut' Morgen 眉bers Feld

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Singer: Thomas Hampson. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SFS MEDIA.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Va, pensiero (Nabucco, Act 3) [Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves]

    Choir: Chorus of La Scala, Milan. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • George Gershwin

    Prelude No.2 (Three Preludes)

    Performer: Santiago Ca帽贸n-Valencia. Performer: Naoko Sonoda. Music Arranger: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks - Overture

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • CFM.
  • Josquin des Prez

    Mille regretz

    Choir: Gesualdo Six.
  • Deborah Henson-Conant

    The Nightingale

    Performer: Emily Granger.
    • In Transit.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 13.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Lemminkainen's Return (Lemminkainen Suite, Op.22)

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • ONDINE.
  • James Ross

    Landscape to Light

    Performer: James Ross. Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet.
    • PHENOTYPIC RECORDS.
  • Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen

    Violin Concerto No. 3 in A Major, Op. 3, No. 3 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Stefano Montanari. Orchestra: Arion Orchestre Baroque.
    • Early-music.
  • Roger Quilter

    Go, lovely Rose (5 English love lyrics Op.24)

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • NAXOS.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Tausend und eine Nacht, Walzer, Op. 346

    Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • New Year's Concert 2017 / Neujahrskonzert 2017.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.
  • Herbert Howells

    Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks

    Singer: Thomas Mullock. Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Performer: Timothy Ravalde. Director: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Howells: St John's Magnificat - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Performer: Jacqueline du Pr茅.
    • Beethoven: Cello Sonatas & Variations (Live).
    • Warner Classics.
    • 43.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto K.314 vers. oboe & orchestra in C major: 3rd mvt; Allegro

    Performer: Cristina G贸mez Godoy. Orchestra: West鈥揈astern Divan Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mozart & Strauss.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

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