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Perk up your morning with classical music

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

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 20 Feb 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite for strings, Op 40 (Air)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Grieg: Holberg Suite/Tchaikovsky: String Serenade: Orheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Salve Regina

    Choir: Ex Cathedra Choir. Performer: Alexander Mason. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Roxanna Panufnik: Celestial Bird.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 301.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major, K 622 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Andrew Marriner. Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Jane Glover.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata no.3 in G minor, BWV.1029 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Mischa Maisky. Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • J S Bach, Cello Sonatas BWV.1027-1029.
    • DG.
    • 10.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Humoresque in G flat major, Op 101 No 7

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Václav Neumann.
    • Little Pearls of Czech Classics: Czech Philharmonic Orch/Neumann.
    • Supraphon.
    • 2.
  • Missy Mazzoli

    Heartbreaker

    Performer: Michael Mizrahi.
    • New Amsterdam.
  • George Frideric Handel

    My Heart is Inditing (Coronation Anthem No 4, HWV261)

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Handel Coronation Anthems.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Fantasia para un gentilhombre (Canario)

    Performer: Sharon Isbin. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.
    • Great Masterworks Of The Guitar.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 108.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Autumn (The Four Seasons)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • VIVALDI: LE QUATTRO STAGIONI.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 7.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Maria Stuarda (Overture)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: David Parry.
    • Donizetti: Scenes and Overtures.
    • OPERA RARA.
    • 1.
  • Roger Quilter

    3 Songs (Op.3), no.2; Now sleeps the crimson petal

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: John Mark Ainsley.
    • Songs by Roger Quilter.
    • Hyperion.
    • 20.
  • Robert Schumann

    Schnell und spielend, Op 16 No 8 (Kreisleriana)

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
    • EMI.
  • Jeremiah Clarke

    Trumpet Voluntary 'The Prince of Denmark's March'

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Sony.
  • Henry Purcell

    Wondrous machine (Hail! Bright Cecilia)

    Singer: Peter Harvey. Orchestra: Collegium Vocale Orchestra. Director: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Edward MacDowell

    To a Water Lily

    Performer: James Barbagallo.
    • MARCO POLO.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The People's Dance (Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Armin Jordan.
    • Erato.
  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (Minuet)

    Ensemble: London Collegiate Brass. Conductor: James Stobart.
    • Walton/Tippett/Britten/Ireland: London Collegiate Brass/Stobart.
    • CRD.
  • Franz Schubert

    Overture in C major, D 951, 'In the Italian style'

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Heinrich Schiff.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos.3&5: Northern Sinfonia/Schiff.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Wedding-cake Op.76

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Hyperion.
  • Michael Tippett

    Deep River (5 Spirituals from 'A Child of our Time')

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Collins Classics.
  • Steve Rosenberg

    Loss

    Performer: Steve Rosenberg.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Chorale

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan. Director: David Le Page.
    • Timelapse.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1201.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet in E flat major K.407 for horn and strings: 1st movement; Allegro

    Performer: Felix Klieser. Ensemble: Zemlinsky Quartet.
    • Mozart & Haydn For Horn & String Quartet.
    • Berlin Classics.
    • 10.

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