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Perk up your morning with classical music

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show live from Bristol, with music that captures the mood of the morning.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 25 Jan 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux aurumque

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Nocturne no. 13 in B minor Op.119

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Hyperion.
  • John Metcalfe

    3 Pieces (Outer Core)

    Performer: Tom Kerstens. Performer: Karen Hutt. Ensemble: Ligeti Quartet.
    • Ignite: New Music for Guitar, Vol. 3.
    • BGS Records.
    • 303.
  • Robert Schumann

    Fast zu ernst (Kinderszenen, Op 15)

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Kinderszenen / Kreisleriana.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal in das Reich Gottes eingehen, BWV 146 (Sinfonia)

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SDG.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Toccata (After C. Monteverdi)

    Composer: John Pickard. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Pickard: Sixteen Sunrises, Symphony No. 5 & Concertante Variations.
    • BIS.
    • 401.
  • Gustav Holst

    6 Choral Folksongs, Op.36: V. I Love my Love

    Choir: Armonico Consort. Conductor: Christopher Monks.
    • Greensleeves: Folk Music of the British Isles.
    • Signum Records.
    • 8.
  • Anonymous

    Little Bob Maximus - Change Ringing from St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol

    Performer: Bells of St. Mary Redcliffe.
    • Saydisc.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending (Arr. for Violin & Piano)

    Performer: Jennifer Pike. Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 10 - No. 12 in C Minor

    Performer: Jan Lisiecki.
    • Bristol Proms.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 2 in C minor, Op 17, 'Little Russian' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Tchaikovsky; Mussorgsky.
    • Onyx.
    • 3.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Suite Italienne

    Performer: Santiago Cañón-Valencia. Performer: Naoko Sonoda.
  • POEM

    "Under Milk Wood" (extract) by Dylan Thomas, read by Richard Burton

  • Daniel Jones

    24 Bagatelles No. 5, Andante

    Performer: LlÅ·r Williams.
    • TÅ· Cerdd.
  • Thomas Tallis

    O Sacrum Convivium

    Conductor: Graham Ross. Choir: The Bevan Family Consort.
    • Vidi Speciosam: Sacred Choral Music.
    • Signum Records.
    • 9.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    HMS Pinafore: The Nightingale Sighed

    Singer: Charles Goulding. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Conifer.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Pirates of Penzance (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Sullivan: Overtures.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • Trad.

    Ca' The Yowes

    Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Singer: Josh Bluteau. Conductor: Tom Wilkinson. Choir: St Salvator’s Chapel Choir.
    • Ca’ the Yowes - A Traditional Tapestry.
    • SANCTIANDREE.
    • 4.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    None but the lonely heart, Op 6 No 6

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Tchaikovsky; The Three Piano Concertos, Concert Fantasia.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Bernard Herrmann

    North By Northwest - Overture

    Conductor: Bernard Herrmann. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Danse Macabre - Classical Halloween Music.
    • UMG Recordings, Inc..
    • 45.
  • Robert Lucas Pearsall

    Lay a garland on her hearse

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

    Suite No. 2 in C Major, Op. 17: IV. Tarantella

    Performer: Charles Owen. Performer: Katya Apekisheva.
    • Rachmaninov: Two-Piano Suites / Six Morceaux, Op. 11.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 8.
  • Ethel Smyth

    March Of The Women

    Music Arranger: Juliette Pochin. Choir: Kantos Chamber Choir. Ensemble: Suffrage Sinfonia. Conductor: Alice Farnham.
    • The Lost Women Of Music.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
    • 1.
  • George Gershwin

    Piano Concerto in F major: iii. Alllegro

    Performer: André Previn. Conductor: André Kostelanetz. Orchestra: André Kostelanetz and His Orchestra.
    • THE INTENSE MEDIA.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 11 - III Theme and Variation

    Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio.
    • Somm.

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