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Morning classical

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with the Friday poem and music that captures the mood of the morning. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

3 hours

Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works.
    • Onyx.
    • 04.
  • Isabella Leonarda

    Sonata in A minor Op.16 no.7

    Performer: Emanuele Breda. Performer: Barbara Mauch-Heinke. Performer: Daniela Wartenberg. Performer: Toshinori Ozaki. Performer: Sofya Gandilyan.
    • Isabella Leonarda: Motets & Sonatas.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 701.
  • Charles Gounod

    Symphony no.1 in D major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Gounod/Bizet: Symphony no.1/L'Arlesienne: St Paul Chamber Orch/Hogwood.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV45: Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist - opening chorus

    Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Bach: 'Meins Lebens Licht' Cantatas BWV 45-198 & Motet BWV 118.
    • Phi.
    • 1.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique (Un bal)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique: Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Ticciati.
    • Linn.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Violin Sonata No.1 in A major, Op.13: 1st mvt

    Performer: Anna Im. Performer: Chiao-Ying Chang.
    • LINN.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe d'amore concerto in E minor TWV.51:e2

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Berlin Baroque Soloists. Director: Rainer Kussmaul.
    • Telemann: Concertos: Berlin Baroque Soloists/Kussmaul.
    • EMI.
    • 1-3.
  • Peter Warlock

    Have You Seen but a White Lily Grow

    Singer: Ian Partridge. Performer: Jennifer Partridge.
    • Peter Warlock: Songs.
    • Heritage Records.
    • 1.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse triste (Kuolema Op.44)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • Johann Strauss: Viennese Waltzes And Polkas.
    • Sony.
    • 4.
  • Peggy Cochrane

    Busy Day

    Performer: Paul Guinery.
    • EM RECORDS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Quartet in G major Op.18`2 for strings: 2nd movement; Adagio cantabile

    Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 18.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.
  • Lucio Demare

    Tango Malena

    Ensemble: Tr铆o Hugo D铆az.
    • Tango Argentina.
    • ARC Music.
  • Franz Liszt

    Valse oubli茅e No 1 in F sharp major

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Philips.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    The Cat and the Moon by W.B. Yeats, read by Pippa Haywood

  • Stanford Robinson

    The Moon Maiden's Dance

    Performer: William Bennett. Performer: Clifford Benson.
    • Encores: William Bennett and Clifford Benson.
    • Bravura.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No.39 in E flat major, K.543 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41 "Jupiter".
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.
  • Rebecca Dale

    Kyrie (Materna Requiem)

    Singer: Louise Alder. Performer: Jonathan Aasgaard. Choir: Kantos Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Requiem for My Mother.
    • Decca.
    • 002.
  • Paul Taffanel

    Sicilienne, Op.7

    Performer: Philippe Bernold. Performer: Ariane Jacob.
    • SAPHIR PRODUCTIONS.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Oberon (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli.
    • PROFIL.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Hugh Wolff.
    • Mendelssohn & Shostakovich: Violin Concertos: Hilary Hahn.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Bonheur de la table (Les Huguenots)

    Singer: John Wakefield. Singer: Joseph Ward. Singer: Dominic Cossa. Singer: John Gibbs. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Les Huguenots

    Music Arranger: Dan Godfrey. Performer: The Grenadier Guards. Performer: The Coldstream Guards. Performer: Regimental Band of the Scots Guards. Performer: Band of the Irish Guards. Performer: The Band of the Welsh Guards.
    • Original Hits - Military Bands.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 9.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73: IV. Allegro con spirito

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Brahms: Orchestral Works.
    • BIS.
    • 204.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109: 3rd mvt

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 109, 110 & 111.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Laura Mvula

    Sing to the Moon

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Director: Anna Lapwood.
    • Signum.
  • Gustav Holst

    Walt Whitman - overture Op.7

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Holst: Cotswolds Symphony.
    • Naxos.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    脡tude in B minor, Op.25 no.10

    Performer: Sonya Bach.
    • Chopin: Etudes.
    • Rubicon.
    • 22.

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