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Daybreak classics

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

Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Two Pieces, Op. 15: I. Chanson de matin

    Conductor: Joshua Weilerstein. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra.
    • American and English Orchestral Music.
    • Claves Records.
    • 15.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction and Allegro

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • Ravel/Debussy: Sonata/Pavane/Chansons de Bilitis: Ensemble Wien-Berlin/Deneuve.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Kate Rusby

    Underneath the Stars

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for 3 harpsichords No.1 in D minor, BWV.1063

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Performer: Lars Ulrik Mortensen. Performer: Kenneth Gilbert. Ensemble: The English Concert.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Jules Massenet

    Thaïs: Meditation

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • DG.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Sun Whose Rays (The Mikado) arr. for piano

    Performer: Keith Jarrett.
    • Keith Jarrett - La Fenice.
    • ECM.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G major, K 525, 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Concentus Musicus Wien/Harnoncourt.
    • Teldec.
    • 1.
  • Franz Liszt

    La Campanella

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Liszt - My Piano Hero.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps: Overture

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Henry Purcell

    Music for a While

    Performer: Julius Drake. Music Arranger: Michael Tippett. Singer: Christopher Lowrey.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Intermezzo (Manon Lescaut)

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Élégie Op.24

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: Cécile Licad.
    • Faure: Cello Sonatas: Alban Gerhardt , Cecile Licad.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Toccata (Organ Symphony No 5 in F minor)

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • Widor/Vierne: Symphony no.5/Carillon de Westminster: Simon Preston.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Clara Schumann

    Evening celebration in Venice (3 Part Songs)

    Choir: North German Radio Choir. Conductor: Philipp Ahmann.
    • Es-Dur.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La forza del destino (Overture)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Verdi: 7 Overtures: NPO, Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Madeleine Dring

    Festival Scherzo

    Performer: Martin Roscoe. Ensemble: Guildhall String Ensemble. Conductor: Robert Salter.
    • HYPERION.
  • Léo Delibes

    Coppélia Suite (Prelude; Mazurka)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.
    • Famous Ballet Music.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 11.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Tristesse (Étude Op. 10, No. 3)

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.
    • Decca.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Magnificat, C75

    Choir: Ex Cathedra. Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Ensemble: Concerto Palatino. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Gabrieli: Sacred Symphonies: Ex Cathedra/Concerto Palatino/Skidmore.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in B flat major Op.3`1

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Performer: Christian Moreaux. Performer: Alice Piérot. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Erato.

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