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

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Tue 12 Nov 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Double Concerto in A Minor, Op. 102: II. Andante

    Performer: Tianwa Yang. Performer: Gabriel Schwabe. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Antoni Wit.
    • Brahms: Violin Concerto, Op. 77 & Double Concerto, Op. 102.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Suite Populaire Bresilienne [Mazurka (Choro)]

    Performer: F谩bio Zanon.
    • Villa-Lobos: Complete Solo Guitar Works.
    • MUSIC MASTERS.
    • 6.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in A minor, D.537 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wohl euch, ihr auserwahlten Seelen ( from "O ewiges Feuer, O Ursprung der Liebe", BWV34)

    Singer: Aafje Heynis. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor: Hans Gillesberger.
    • Aafje Heynis - Complete Philips Recordings.
    • Universal Music, a division of Universal International Music BV.
    • 9.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no. 2 in D major H.7b.2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: recreation 鈥 Grosses Orchester Graz. Conductor: Michael Hofstetter.
    • Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1-2 & Symphony No. 13 in D Major, Hob. I:13 (Live).
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 3.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Legend, Op.59 No.8

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Tom谩拧 Netopil.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Traditional Irish

    Seachr谩n Si

    Music Arranger: Clare O'Connell. Performer: Clare O'Connell.
    • Stone Records.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in A major, Op 2 No 2 (4th mvt)

    Performer: 脡ric Heidsieck.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.
  • Giovanni Paisiello

    King Theodore in Venice (overture)

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Director: Jonathan Cohen.
    • HYPERION.
  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 26 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin concertos.
    • EMI.
    • 3.
  • William Denis Browne

    The Isle of Lost Dreams

    Singer: Hugh Cutting. Performer: George Ireland.
  • Johann David Heinichen

    Dresden Concerto in D major S.226 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Johann David Heinichen Dresden Concerti Musica Antiqua Koln Reinhard Goebel.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 17.
  • Grace Williams

    Channel Sirens (Sea Sketches)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: David Atherton.
    • Grace Williams: Sea Sketches, Fantasia, Carillons: Camden/Snell/LSO/RPO/ECO.
    • Lyrita.
    • 015.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No.36 'Linz' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre des Pays de Savoie. Conductor: Pieter-Jelle de Boer.
    • NoMadMusic.
  • Harold Arlen

    Come Rain or Come Shine

    Composer: Jonny Mercer. Singer: Peggy Lee.
    • Over The Rainbow: Capitol Sings Harold Arlen.
    • Not known.
    • 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo in G major, Op 129, 'Rage over a lost penny'

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Alfred Brendel plays, vol.4.
    • Vox Box.
    • 7.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Apollon musagete (Pas de deux)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps / Apollo.
    • 08.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Lully playing the subject and Corelli accompanying (The Apotheosis of Lully)

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Henry Wood

    Bugle Calls, The Saucy Arethusa, Tom Bowling, Jack's the Lad hornpipe (Fantasia on British Sea Songs)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Land of Hope and Glory, The Ultimate Classical Celebration.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.
  • Robert Schumann

    Stille Tranen [ Silent Tears ] (12 Poems of Justinus Kerner, Op.35)

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: James Baillieu.
  • Gustav Holst

    Uranus, the Magician (The Planets, Op 32)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra - Holst The Planets - Vladimir Jurowski Conductor.
    • LPO.
    • 6.
  • Thomas Ad猫s

    Arcadiana (O Albion)

    Ensemble: Calder Quartet.
    • The Twenty-Fifth Hour - The Chamber Music of Thomas Ades.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
    • 13.
  • Henry Purcell

    Fairest isle (King Arthur, Z.628)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: Jonathan Manson. Performer: Laurence Cummings.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.5 in E minor Op.64 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yevgeny Mravinsky.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony no.4, no.5 & no.6: Leningrad PO/Mravinsky.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    12 Variations on 'Ah! Vous dirais-je, maman' K.265

    Performer: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • ECM New Series.
  • Kate Rusby

    Underneath the Stars

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.
  • William Grant Still

    Romance

    Performer: Marcus Eley. Performer: Lucerne DeSa.
    • But Not Forgotten: Music by African-American Composers for clarinet and piano.
    • SONO LUMINUS.
    • 10.

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