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Start the day with classical music

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with the Friday poem and music that captures the mood of the morning.

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Fri 20 Dec 2024 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker Suite - Trepak

    Performer: Alexandra Dariescu.
    • Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Nutcracker Suite.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 205.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, \"Death and the Maiden\": II. Andante

    Music Arranger: Gustav Mahler. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Iona Brown.
    • Schoenberg: Verkl盲rte Nacht - Schubert: Death and the Maiden.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Concertino in B flat major for clarinet and orchestra

    Performer: B茅la Kov谩cs. Orchestra: Camarata Budapest. Conductor: L谩szl贸 Kov谩cs.
    • Naxos.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: 26. Agnus Dei & 27. Dona nobis pacem

    Singer: Margot Oitzinger. Orchestra: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor.
    • Linn Records.
    • 26.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite Op.40 (Air)

    Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland.
    • SIMAX.

  • John Rutter

    The very best time of year

    Music Arranger: Owain Park. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.

  • Leopold Mozart

    A musical sleigh ride

    Music Arranger: Philip Lane. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • The Night Before Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Gaffigan.
    • Warner.

  • George Frideric Handel

    For unto us a child is born (Messiah)

    Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Orchestra of The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Handel: Messiah: The Sixteen choir and orchestra/Christophers.
    • Hyperion.

  • Miriam Hyde

    Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat minor, 3rd mvt 'Allegro scherzando'

    Performer: Miriam Hyde. Orchestra: West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Women of Note.
    • ABC.
    • 03.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Rigoletto, Act 3: "La donna 猫 mobile"

    Singer: Pene Pati. Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume. Orchestra: Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine.
    • Pene Pati.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • Frank Bridge

    Valse Russe from Miniatures, Set 3

    Ensemble: Salieca Piano Trio.
    • 大象传媒 RECORDING.

  • FRIDAY POEM

    "The Oxen" by Thomas Hardy, read by Ian McElhinney

  • Morten Lauridsen

    O Magnum Mysterium

    Ensemble: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • Advent Calendar.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.

  • Arturo M谩rquez

    Conga del fuego nuevo

    Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Gustavo Dudamel: Discoveries.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.

  • Peter Warlock

    Bethlehem Down

    Music Arranger: Matthew Knight. Ensemble: Septura.
    • NAXOS.

  • Thomas Sterndale Bennett

    The Carol Singers

    Performer: David Willison. Lyricist: C. Hayes. Singer: Benjamin Luxon.
    • Victorian and Edwardian Ballads.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 3 in C major, Op 52 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Mark Elder. Orchestra: Hall茅.
    • Halle.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Kati Debretzeni. Performer: Rachel Beckett. Performer: Malcolm Proud. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, English Baroque Soloists.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 4.

  • Sarah Cattley

    Ivy, Chief of Trees

    Singer: Alice Gribbin. Singer: Nancy Cole. Singer: Benjamin Durrant. Singer: Edward Price. Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Toby Ward.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Italian Dance

    Performer: Leslie Odom. Performer: Soomee Yoon.
    • Scene rustique.
    • RAVELLO RECORDS.
    • 10.

  • Leroy Anderson

    A Christmas Festival

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Bell.
    • A Family Christmas.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat major, K 595 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos 20, K466 & 27, K595; Mitsuko Uchida, The Cleveland Orche.
    • Decca.
    • 6.

  • Bob Chilcott

    Gifts for the Child of Winter

    Ensemble: Commotio. Conductor: Matthew Berry.
    • NAXOS.

  • Matthew Locke

    The Tempest: The first musicke - introduction and galliard

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • TELDEC.

  • Peter Cornelius

    The Three Kings

    Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.8 in B minor D.759 'Unfinished' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos 8 & 9, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

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