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Morning classical

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

Wed 6 Mar 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E major, RV 269, 'Spring' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Director: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Mutter, Trondheim Soloists.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • Aaron Copland

    Quiet City

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Scott David Stroman.
    • Quiet City.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Francesco Landini

    Echo la primavera

    Ensemble: Anonymous 4.
    • Harmonia mundi.
  • Frank Bridge

    Spring Song

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Music Arranger: Simon Parkin. Ensemble: The Heath Quartet.
    • Elgar.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Katy Bircher. Performer: Cecilia Bernardini. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • J.S. Bach: Six Brandenburg Concertos.
    • LINN.
    • 14.
  • Robert Schumann

    Phantasiestuck no.1

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • The Lyrical Clarinet, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon a 10 [1597 no.9]

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Director: Paul McCreesh.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio No. 7, "Archduke" (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Lynn Harrell. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 54.
  • Ganavya

    Vāzhkai, En Rose

    • ³ΫΔε³Ω³ΩΎ±°ω²ΉΎ±.
  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    Symphony no.8 in G major Op.88 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: IvΓ‘n Fischer.
    • Philips.
  • John Pickard

    Ave maris stella

    Lyricist: Anon.. Choir: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • John Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times.
    • BIS.
    • 108.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Mer (Jeux de Vagues)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: FranΓ§ois‐Xavier Roth.
    • Debussy: La mer, PrΓ©lude Γ  l'aprΓ¨s-midi d'un faune – Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole.
    • Lso Live.
    • 107.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata in G, K. 180

    Performer: Jean Rondeau.
    • Scarlatti: Sonatas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No. 1, "Classical" (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Prokofiev: Pierre et le loup; Symphonie Classique Op.25; Marche Op.99; Overture.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 16.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet (4th mvt)

    Performer: Romain Guyot. Performer: Lorenza Borrani. Performer: Mats Zetterqvist. Performer: Pascal Siffert. Performer: Richard Lester.
    • Mozart: Concerto & Quintet for clarinet: Romain Guyot/Chamber Orchestra of Europ.
    • Mirare.
    • 7.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Silent Noon

    Performer: Julius Drake. Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Singer: Nicky Spence.
    • Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge & Other Songs.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Straussiana

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Korngold - Symphony in F sharp.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Jasdeep Singh Degun

    Lament

    • Real World Records.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)

    Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Pritchard.
    • EMI.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    String Sextet "Souvenir de Florence" (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Tchaikovsky, Korngold: String Sextets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Alma Redemptoris Mater

    Ensemble: Sequentia.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Nocturne

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: CΓ©dric Tiberghien.
    • Hyperion.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Suite no.2 Op.17

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 83 in G minor, 'The Hen' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Bruno Weil.
    • Haydn: Paris Symphonies Nos. 82, 83 & 84: Tafelmusik/Weil.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.

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