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Perk up your morning with classical music

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

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Agustín Barrios Mangoré

    Julia Florida

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • ʰǴڱó.
    • Pentatone.
    • 104.
  • Henry Purcell

    Sonata no. 9 in C minor, Z 798

    Ensemble: Retrospect Trio.
    • Purcell: Twelve Sonatas in Three Parts.
    • Linn Records.
    • 47.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano concerto in G (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Cédric Tiberghien. Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johannes-Passion, BWV 245, Pt. 1: XIII. Aria. Ich folge dir gleichfalls mit freu

    Singer: Joanne Lunn. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • J.S. Bach: John Passion, Reconstruction of Bach's Passion Liturgy.
    • Linn Records.
    • 13.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon and Gigue in D

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • TELDEC.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Pas des écharpes (Suite for piano)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.6 in F major Op.68 'Pastoral' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Beethoven: 9 Symphonies: Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite no. 4 in E major HWV.429 for keyboard - 1720. Sarabande

    Performer: Laurence Cummings.
    • Somm.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 41 in C, "Jupiter" (Menuetto: Allegretto)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Fela Sowande

    Akinla (African Suite)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume 1.
    • CEDILLE.
    • 8.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Italian Serenade

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Sir James MacMillan

    So Deep

    Choir: The Elysian Singers. Director: Sam Laughton.
    • The Elysian Singers - Cantos Sagrados.
    • Signum.
    • 10.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    Today by Billy Collins, read by Clarke Peters

  • Johann Strauss II

    Fruhlingsstimmen [Voices of spring] - waltz for orch (Op.410

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • Sony.
    • G010002713845B.
    • 3.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto/Octet: James Ehnes.
    • Onyx.
    • 3.
  • Lord Berners

    Red Roses and Red Noses

    Performer: Len Vorster. Singer: Ian Partridge.
    • Lord Berners: Songs & Piano Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 14.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quartet in E flat, Op.47 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Schumann: Piano Quartet - Piano Quintet.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.
  • Miklós Rózsa

    Caesar's Procession

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: Bruce Broughton.
    • Julius Caesar (Remastered 2020).
    • Intrada.
    • 3.
  • Peter Dickinson

    Bach in Blue

    Performer: Lesley Hatfield. Performer: Robert Plane. Orchestra: 鶹Լ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Peter Dickinson: Orchestral Works.
    • Heritage Records.
    • 8.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No. 5 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Symphonies.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.
  • Ben Parry

    One Long Song

    Lyricist: Anoushka Lucas. Choir: National Youth Choir. Conductor: Ben Parry.
    • Ben Parry: One Long Song.
    • National Youth Choir Recordings.
  • Roy Newsome

    Concorde

    Performer: Phillip McCann. Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Roy Newsome.
    • Classic Brass.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Billy Strayhorn

    Take the "A" Train

    Performer: Duke Ellington Orchestra.
    • Duke Ellington: The Blanton-Webster Band.
    • Bluebird.
    • 10.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in F major, Op 15 No 1

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.

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