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Classical music to brighten your morning

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

Thu 22 Feb 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

    Performer: Martin Frost. Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Quintet: Martin Frost.
    • BIS.
    • 5.
  • Fazil Say

    The Moving Mansion (Yürüyen Köşk), Op. 72a: I. Enlightenment

    Performer: Fazil Say.
    • Troy Sonata - Fazil Say Plays Say.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.
  • Yalçin Tura

    Umutsuz

    Performer: Sonat Sözer. Performer: Ece Sözer.
    • A.K. Musik.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Violin Concerto No 3 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Dong-Suk Kang. Orchestra: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antoni Wit.
    • Naxos.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor, BWV 232: Agnus Dei

    Singer: Tim Mead. Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 214.
  • Samuel Barber

    Adagio for Strings

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Thomas Schippers.
    • SONY.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Horn Concerto Op.58 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Lee Reynolds.
    • Willow Hayne Records.
  • Traditional Sami

    Čokču (extract)

    Ensemble: ARA.
    • Ҿá.
    • Sound Of ÁRA.
  • Ola Gjeilo

    Tundra

    Choir: Tenebrae. Performer: Ola Gjeilo. Performer: Thomas Gould. Performer: Ciaran McCabe. Performer: Jon Thorne. Performer: Matthew Sharp. Director: Nigel Short.
    • Ola Gjeilo.
    • Decca.
    • 09.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu D935 No. 4 in F minor

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Andante festivo

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • BIS.
  • Josef Myslivecek

    Wind Octet no.2 in E flat major

    Ensemble: Budapester Bläserensemble.
    • Hungaroton.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Fantasia in C major, MB.20.13

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • The Glenn Gould Edition.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Thomas Arne

    Thou soft-flowing Avon

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Arne: Dr Arne at Vauxhall Gardens: Parley of Instruments.
    • Hyperion.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, H.7e.1 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Håkan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Hardenberger/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 10.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Virga Jesse floruit

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Bruckner: Mass in E minor/Motets: Polyphony/Britten Sinfonia/Layton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in D, Op. 18 No. 3 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Calder Quartet.
    • Beethoven & Hillborg: Chamber Works.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 104.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no. 1 (Afro-American): 1st movement; Longing - Moderato assai

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony/In Memoriam/Africa (Symphonic Poem).
    • NAXOS.
    • 5.
  • Edward Elgar

    La Capricieuse Op 17

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.
    • Onyx.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Che si puo fare

    Performer: Leonardo García Alarcón. Performer: Mariana Flores. Ensemble: Cappella Mediterranea.
    • Ambronay.
  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Country Dances

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Humpback whale (Megaptera Novaeangliae) – song of male

    Recorded by Dave Ruddick in North America for the 鶹Լ Natural History Unit

  • George Fenton

    Blue Whale (The Blue Planet)

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: George Fenton.
    • The Blue Planet - Music from the 鶹Լ TV Series.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Prelude in F sharp major, Op 28 No 13

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Chopin: 26 Preludes Scherzo NR. 2 - Martha Argerich.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 13.

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