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Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with the Friday poem and music that captures the mood of the morning. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask 大象传媒 Sounds to play Breakfast.鈥

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Music Played

  • Osvaldo Golijov

    The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind: Prelude: Calmo, Sospeso

    Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • Osvaldo Golijov: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind.
    • Nonesuch/Warner Records.
    • 1.
  • Owain Park

    Pri猫re pour Marie

    Ensemble: Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.
    • Queen of Hearts: Laments and Songs of Regret for Queens Terrestrial and Celestia.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat major, D.935 no.2

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Schubert: Impromptus.
    • Philips.
    • 6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich habe genug, BWV 82: No. 3, Aria. "Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen"

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Conductor: Fabio Biondi. Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Bach: Cantatas & Arias.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    3 Nocturnes Op.9 (no.1 in B flat minor)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes and Impromptus: Angela Hewitt, piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, KV 207: III. Presto

    Performer: J煤lia Pusker. Orchestra: Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie. Conductor: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow.
    • Queen Elisabeth Competition - Violin 2019.
    • Queen Elisabeth Competition.
    • 206.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Arsilda, RV 700, Sinfonia

    Ensemble: La Cetra Basel. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • Naive.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Elegy Op. 22 arr. for string quartet

    Ensemble: Finzi Quartet.
    • Resonus Classics.
  • Franz Liszt

    La Campanella (6 Grandes 茅tudes de Paganini, No 3 in G sharp minor)

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • Transcendental.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Clarinet Trio in E flat major, Op 44 (3rd mvmt, Minuetto)

    Performer: Daniel Ottensamer. Performer: Stephan Koncz. Performer: Christoph Traxler.
    • A Trip To France.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 3.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Czech Suite, Op.39 (Furiant)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Joseph Swensen.
    • Linn.
  • Franz Schubert

    Der Lindenbaum (Winterreise D.911)

    Singer: Florian Boesch. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Schubert: Winterreise: Boesch/Martineau.
    • Onyx.
    • 5.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    "The Leveret" by Michael Longley, read by Michael Longley

  • Johann Joachim Quantz

    Flute Concerto in C major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: James Galway. Orchestra: W眉rttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn. Conductor: J枚rg Faerber.
    • RCA.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Grand March (Aida)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • CBS.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Piano Quartet in G Major: IV. Allegro assai

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Hahn: Piano Quintet, Songs, Piano Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 112.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 2 in D Major, Op 36 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer.
    • Beethoven: Complete Symphonies.
    • Naxos.
    • 204.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Sonata in F Minor, Op. 120 No. 1 arr. Berio for clarinet and orchestra

    Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Music Arranger: Luciano Berio. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Alexandre Bloch.
    • Belle 茅poque.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 1.
  • Sir Charles Hubert H. Parry

    Jerusalem

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Music Arranger: Geoffrey Brand. Conductor: Roy Newsome.
    • Traditionally British.
    • Chandos.
    • 104.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Don Quichotte a Dulcinee - no. 1 - Chanson romanesque. Moderato

    Singer: Ludovic Morlot. Singer: Ludovic Morlot. Orchestra: OCR Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: OCR Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alexandre Duhamel. Conductor: Alexandre Duhamel.
    • L'auditori.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 47 in G Major - I - Allegro

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Alpha.
  • Benjamin Britten

    A Ceremony of carols Op.28 鈥 No. 6 鈥淭his Little Babe鈥

    Choir: Wells Cathedral Choir. Performer: Olivia Jageurs. Conductor: Alexander Hamilton.
    • WHITE LABEL.
  • Luise Adolpha Le Beau

    Cello Sonata Op.17 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.
    • HYPERION.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Javier Perianes. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Kurt Weill

    Alabama Song

    Performer: Paul Trueblood. Lyricist: Bertolt Brecht. Singer: Marianne Faithfull.
    • Twentieth Century Blues - An Evening In The Weimar Republic.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 1.
  • Jan V谩clav Hugo Vo艡铆拧ek

    Symphony in D Major, Op. 23: IV. Finale. Allegro con brio

    Orchestra: WDR Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Beethoven's World: Salieri, Hummel, Vorisek.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 8.
  • Kerensa Briggs

    Media Vita

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No. 17 in B-Flat Major, K. 570: I. Allegro

    Performer: Elisabeth Leonskaja.
    • Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 33.

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