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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. To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask 大象传媒 Sounds to play Breakfast.鈥�

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Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Quintet in E flat major Op.16 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • Les Vents Fran莽ais - Winds & Piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 16.

  • Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie

    Benedictus (6 Pieces Op.37)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Sir Alexander Mackenzie - Orchestral Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Viola da Gamba Sonata no.1 in G major BWV.1027

    Performer: Mischa Maisky. Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • DG.

  • Franz Schubert

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

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • ECM: 4811572.
    • ECM.
    • 3.

  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    The Enchanted Lake, Op.62

    Orchestra: G眉rzenich-Orchester K枚ln. Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko.
    • Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov & Lyadov: Works.
    • Oehms Classics.

  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto grosso in F major, Op 1 No 7

    Orchestra: Raglan Baroque Players. Director: Nicholas Kraemer.
    • Hyperion.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Nocturne

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Vierne; Franck: Violin Sonatas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • Max Bruch

    Kol nidrei

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • Hyperion.

  • Robert Schumann

    Lieder und Gesange aus Wilhelm Meister, Op.98a Lieder fur Mignon Singet nicht In Trauertonen, Op.98a No.7

    Singer: Fatma Said. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Hubert Parry

    Symphony no.4 in E minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Claude Debussy

    Brouillards (Preludes - book 2)

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • Claude Debussy: Pr茅ludes.
    • DG.
    • 13.

  • Claude Debussy

    Le faune (F锚tes galantes, Vol 2)

    Performer: Dalton Baldwin. Singer: G茅rard Souzay.
    • Debussy: Melodies, Lieder: Souzay, Baldwin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto for piano and orchestra in E flat major K.271, No. 9: III. Rondeau

    Performer: Alfred Brendel. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • DECCA.

  • Imogen Holst

    Mass in A minor: V. Agnus Dei

    Director: Graham Ross. Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nicanor Zabaleta. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • DG.

  • Trad.

    Nobody Knows the Trouble I See

    Performer: Peter Moore. Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Director: Ian Porthouse. Ensemble: Tredegar Band.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90, 'Italian' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DECCA.

  • Robin Milford

    Fishing by Moonlight

    Performer: Julian Milford. Ensemble: Guildhall String Ensemble. Director: Robert Salter.
    • Hyperion.

  • Duke Ellington

    Caravan

    Performer: Quincy Jones and His Orchestra.
    • Jasmine Records.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Blumine (Symphony no. 1 in D major)

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • ONDINE.

  • Trad.

    The Parting Glass (Arr. Pacey)

    Lyricist: Trad.. Music Arranger: Joshua Pacey. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Enchanted Isle.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 10.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin (Act 2 Waltz)

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Ballets russes.
    • Parlophone (France).
    • 11.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    6 Polish Songs, S.480 (Das Ringlein; Bacchanal)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.

  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Concerto in F major for Recorder, Strings and Continuo FaWV LF6 [complete]

    Performer: Thomas Triesschijn. Ensemble: The Counterpoints.
    • Thomascantors in Dialogue.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 14-16.

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