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Start the day right 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

Wed 20 Mar 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    To the Spring (Lyric Pieces, Op.43)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse-scherzo in C major Op.34

    Performer: Esther Yoo. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Tchaikovsky.
    • Universal Music Ltd..
    • 7.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Clarinet Trio in E flat major, Op.44 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Diana Ambache. Performer: Joan Enric Lluna. Performer: Naomi Butterworth.
    • 鶹Լ Music.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Die Seele ruht in Jesu Handen (Aria), from Cantata no. 127, BWV 127

    Singer: Dorothee Mields. Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent. Director: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Bach: Jesu, deine Passion.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 12.
  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'Amour

    Music Arranger: Julian Milone. Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Elgar: Cello Concerto: Natalie Clein.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.
  • Henry Purcell

    From Hardy Climes and Dangerous Toils of War, Z. 325: The Sparrow and the Gentle

    Singer: Mark Dobell. Conductor: Harry Christophers. Orchestra: The Sixteen Orchestra. Ensemble: The Sixteen.
    • Royal Welcome Songs for King Charles II Volume II.
    • CORO.
    • 19.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Benedictus (Missa brevis in C major, K 220, 'Spatzenmesse')

    Singer: Christine Schäfer. Singer: Ingeborg Danz. Singer: Kurt Azesberger. Singer: Oliver Widmer. Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • TELDEC.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Onyx.
  • Amy Beach

    By the still waters Op.114 for piano

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Decca.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cantique de Jean Racine, Op.11

    Choir: Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • VIRGIN.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Prelude Opus 9 for left hand

    Performer: Nicholas McCarthy.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Spring, Op.34

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Béla Bartók

    Piano Concerto No. 3 in E Major, Sz. 119: I. Allegretto

    Performer: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony.
    • Bartók: Piano Concertos.
    • Pentatone.
    • 107.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Scherzo (Octet in E flat major Op.20)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Sylvius Leopold Weiss

    Passacaglia

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • Passacaglia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony no.4 in E minor (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • DECCA.
    • 5.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Vexilla Regis

    Choir: MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig. Conductor: Philipp Ahmann.
    • Pentatone.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor - 2nd mvt: Adagio sostentuto

    Performer: Boris Giltburg. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Carlos Miguel Prieto.
    • Naxos.
  • George Lloyd

    HMS Trinidad March

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Performer: George Lloyd. Performer: David King. Conductor: David King.
    • English Heritage.
    • Albany Records.
    • 006.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Studium divinitatis - Unde quocumque venientes (Mattins Antiphons for St Ursula)

    Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Choir: Lay Clerks of Westminster Cathedral. Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Sarah Baldock.
    • Voices of Beauty: Medieval and Renaissance Vocal Music.
    • Menuetto Classics.
    • 15.
  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Violin Sonata in G Minor, B.g5 / GT 2.g05 "Il trillo del Diavolo" II. Allegro

    Performer: Adrian Chandler. Ensemble: La Serenissima.
    • "Diavolo": Giuseppe Tartini - 6 violin sonatas.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 120.

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