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Daybreak classics

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

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Lars Vogt. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Samuel Wesley

    O sing unto me roundelaie

    Choir: Invocation. Conductor: Timothy Roberts.
    • Hyperion.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in E flat major, K.375 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wind Soloists.
    • Linn.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Double Concerto in E flat major H479 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Lynn Kelley. Performer: Jos van Immerseel. Orchestra: Collegium Aureum.
    • BMG.
  • Gabriel FaurΓ©

    Berceuse (Dolly Suite)

    Orchestrator: Henri Rabaud. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Faure: Orchestral works: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic/Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    String Sextet in D major Op.10 (Intermezzo)

    Performer: Jennifer Stumm. Performer: Bartholomew LaFollette. Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Korngold: Piano Sextet/String Quintet: Doric String Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 5 in B flat major, D 485 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3, 5 & 6: RPO/Beecham.
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • Ilse Weber

    Wiegala

    Performer: Brian O'Doherty. Singer: Kezia Bienek.
  • Gustav Holst

    St Paul's Suite Op 29`2 (Finale; The Dargason)

    Orchestra: Scottish Ensemble. Conductor: Jonathan Rees.
    • Wilson: St Kentigern Suite: Scottish Ensemble, Jonathan Rees.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 23.
  • Duke Ellington

    Jump for Joy

    Ensemble: Avon Cities Jazz Band.
    • British Traditional Jazz (At a Tangent) , Vol. 5.
    • Lake.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Zigeunerweisen Op.20

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Henry Walford Davies

    O sons and daughters

    Performer: Parker Ramsay. Singer: Rupert Peacock. Singer: Joel Williamson. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • English Hymn Anthems.
    • Kings College.
    • 6.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    If the Earth is My Mother, written and read by Caleb Parkin

  • George Fenton

    The Blue Planet (Original Television Soundtrack)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Choir: Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. Conductor: George Fenton.
    • Silva Screen.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks (La rΓ©jouissance)

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • G.F. Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks: English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 4.
  • Trad.

    Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel

    Music Arranger: Lawrence Brown. Performer: Paul Robeson. Performer: Alan Booth.
    • Vanguard.
  • Florence Price

    Piano Concerto (first section, Andantino)

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Leslie Suganandarajah.
    • Decca.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Lacrimosa (Requiem in D minor, K.626)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Mozart Requiem Reconstruction of First Performances.
    • LINN.
    • 8.
  • Claude Debussy

    Fantaisie for piano and orchestra (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Debussy/Ravel: Works For Piano And Orchestra.
    • Chandos.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor Op.10 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Piano quintet/Clarinet quintet: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and circumstance marches Op.39: no.4 in G major

    Orchestra: HallΓ©. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G Major, BWV 577, 'Gigue'

    Performer: Kevin Bowyer.
    • A Late Twentieth Century Edwardian Bach Recital / St.Mary, Redcliffe, Bristol.
    • Priory Records.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    It was a lover and his lass

    Singer: Helen Charlston. Singer: Alessandro Fisher. Performer: Sholto Kynoch.
  • Julian Nott

    Wallace & Gromit - Theme & Chase

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Tolga Kaşif.
    • Parlophone.

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