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Your classical alarm call

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

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Fri 22 Mar 2024 06:30
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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op.20

    Orchestra: Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Alba.

  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Requiem Mass for 6 voices (Requiem aeternam)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Director: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor: Bourrées; Polonaises; Menuet; Badinerie

    Orchestra: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • Bach: Orchestral Suites BWV 1066-1069.
    • Linn Records.
    • 16-19.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Simple symphony Op.4 (Playful pizzicato)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Britten: Young person's guide to the orchestra etc: LSO/ECO/Britten.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Impromptu No.3 in A flat major, Op.34

    Performer: Lucas Debargue.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • John Marsh

    Symphony No 8 in G major

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.

  • John Tavener

    Song for Athene

    Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: Martin Neary.
    • John Tavener: Innocence: Westminster Abbey Choir/English Chamber Orch/Neary.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Air with variations, 'The Harmonious Blacksmith' (Suite no. 5 in E major HWV.430)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Handel/Scarlatti: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Brukdown

    Ensemble: Bone-afide.
    • DOYEN.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet no. 2 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • DECCA.

  • Herbert Chappell

    The Pallisers: Main Title

    Orchestra: United Kingdom Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Harry Rabinowitz.
    • BMG CLASSICS.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fairy Tale Pictures; 1. Nicht Schnell (Not fast)

    Performer: Alena Baeva. Performer: Vadym Kholodenko.

  • FRIDAY POEM

    "The Rider" by Naomi Shihab Nye, read by Adjoa Andoh

  • Jean Coulthard

    Bicycle Parade (Excursion)

    Orchestra: Symphony Nova Scotia. Conductor: Georg Tintner.
    • Colonial Diversions: Orchestral Miniatures by Grainger, Lilburn, Benjamin and Co.
    • Naxos.
    • 26.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.4 in A major Op.90 'Italian' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Trad.

    Danza del Altiplano

    Music Arranger: Leo Brouwer. Performer: Robert Beer.
    • Cuban Landscape.
    • Koch.
    • 19.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon and Gigue in D major

    Performer: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Performer: Daniel Hope.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Franz von Suppè

    Overture to Boccaccio

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • Mercury.

  • Claude Debussy

    Petite Suite for Piano Duet: En bateau

    Performer: Robert Casadesus. Performer: Gaby Casadesus.
    • Piano Works by Debussy.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • William Lloyd Webber

    Serenade for Strings

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in E flat major K.375 (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Consortium Classicum.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.

  • Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov

    Cherubic Hymn, Op. 7 No. 1

    Lyricist: Anon.. Choir: St John's Voices. Conductor: Graham Walker. Choir: Cambridge University Chamber Choir.
    • Chesnokov: Sacred Choral Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • John Field

    Nocturne No 5 in B flat major

    Performer: Elizabeth Joy Roe.
    • Decca.

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  • Fri 22 Mar 2024 06:30
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