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Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3鈥檚 award-winning classical breakfast show, including this week's 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century piece. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning, including 大象传媒 Radio 3鈥檚 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century 鈥� a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, in Birds of Paradise for the 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra and violinist Freya Goldmark, Orcadian composer Erland Cooper reflects on the natural world in the 21st century and pays tribute to David Attenborough, whose landmark series Planet Earth and Life of Mammals brought it to record numbers of viewers in the early 2000s.

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Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    Nacht und Traume, D.827

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: D茅nes V谩rjon.
    • Steven Isserlis: Chopin Cello Sonata & Schubert Arpeggione Sonata.
    • HYPERION.
    • 12.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in B flat major, Op.76`4 'Sunrise' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Schumann Quartett.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Oboe Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Juliana Koch. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fantasia & Fugue in A minor, BWV.904

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major, K 581 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Andrew Marriner. Ensemble: Chilingirian Quartet.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.

  • Alun Hoddinott

    Two Welsh Nursery Tunes: I. Suo G盲n (Lullaby); II. Pedoli (Shoeing Song)

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Alun Hoddinott.
    • Dutton Epoch.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    3 Shakespeare songs for chorus: no.2; The Cloud capp'd towers

    Singer: Grace Davidson. Singer: Victoria Meteyard. Choir: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • Three Shakespeare Songs: II. The cloud-capp'd towers.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.

  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no. 1 (Afro-American): 3rd movement; Animato

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony/In Memoriam/Africa (Symphonic Poem).
    • NAXOS.
    • 7.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 45/MWV Q 27: II. Andante

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Mendelssohn.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 11.

  • Charles Gounod

    Mors et Vita: Judex

    Orchestra: Richard Hickox Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Decca.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    6 Day Dreams, Op. 14: No. 4, Tempo di valse

    Performer: Murray McLachlan.
    • Daydreams.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 2.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Suite No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 43, TH 31: VI. Gavotte. Allegro

    Orchestra: Orchestre Consuelo. Conductor: Victor Julien-Laferri猫re.
    • Tchaikovsky: Suites 1 & 2.
    • Mirare.
    • 6.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La Traviata (Prelude to Act 3)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Conductor: Antonello Manacorda.

  • Amy Woodforde-Finden

    Kashmiri Song (4 Indian Love Lyrics)

    Music Arranger: Sir Stephen Hough. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hough - 'My Favourite Things': Virtuoso Encores and Transcriptions.
    • Nimbus Records.
    • 12.

  • Franz Schubert

    Liebesbotschaft (Schwanengesang D.957)

    Singer: Christian Gerhaher. Performer: Gerold Huber.
    • Schubert: Schwanengesang & 4 Lieder: Gerhaher/Huber.
    • Arte Nova Classics.
    • 1.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for 4 Violins Op. 3, No. 10 in B Minor, RV 580: I. Allegro

    Performer: Catalina Reus. Performer: 脕ngela Moro. Performer: Miren Zeberio. Performer: Marguerite Wassermann. Performer: Bianca Riesner. Conductor: Jordi Savall. Orchestra: Les Musiciennes du Concert des Nations.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 19.

  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Serenade espagnole, Op. 150

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Orchid Classics.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no. 21 in C major Op.53 "Waldstein" (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Andreas Haefliger.
    • Janacek; Beethoven; Brahms: Perspectives 4 / Andrea Haefliger.
    • Avie.
    • 005.

  • Francisco Guerrero

    Maria Magdalene

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Grainger: Solo Piano Music: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • Erland Cooper

    Birds of Paradise

    Performer: Freya Goldmark. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jack Sheen.

  • Anna Lapwood

    Drop Down Ye Heavens

    Performer: Joseph Beadle. Performer: Joseph Beadle. Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • In The Stillness.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Trad.

    Hector the Hero

    Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98: I. Allegro non troppo

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Linn Records.
    • 13.

  • John Field

    Nocturne No.10 in E Major, H. 54 "Nocturne Pastorale"

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Field: Complete Nocturnes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Die Mainacht, Op.9 no.6

    Singer: Soraya Mafi. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Vivat.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Hamburger Sonata in G major for flute and continuo, Wq 133

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Performer: Jonathan Manson.
    • EMI.

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