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Start the day 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

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Fri 29 Mar 2024 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto no.2 in F major Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Dmitri Maximovich Shostakovich. Orchestra: I Musici de Montr茅al. Conductor: Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich.
    • Shostakovich: Piano concerto no. 2: I Musici de Montr茅al.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Caroline Shaw

    And The Swallow

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum.
    • 7.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Quartet in G minor, K 478 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Leonard Bernstein. Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet.
    • Leonard Bernstein plays and conducts Beethoven/Mozart/Schumann etc.
    • Sony Music.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: 58. Aria "Mache dich, mein Herze, rein" (Bass)

    Singer: Brian Bannatyne-Scott. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • J.S. Bach: Matthew Passion.
    • Linn Records.
    • 96.

  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring (Nos.7 & 8)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Roadtrip.
    • Warner.
    • 14-15.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    The Arts and the Hours (Les Boreades)

    Music Arranger: V铆kingur 脫lafsson. Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Debussy & Rameau.
    • DG.
    • 17.

  • Phil Cunningham

    Loch Katrine's Lady

    Performer: Ryan Corbett.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Euryanthe (Overture)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • Opera Overtures and Incidental Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.

  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G Minor Z.730

    Ensemble: Chelys Consort of Viols.
    • Purcell: Fantazias.
    • BIS.
    • 801.

  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the Shore

    Ensemble: Band of HM Royal Marines. Conductor: Huw Williams.
    • Chevron.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Violin concerto no.10 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Zhou Qian. Orchestra: Toronto Camerata. Conductor: Kevin Mallon.
    • Saint-George: Complete Violin Concertos, Vol.2.
    • NAXOS.
    • 6.

  • John Dowland

    Come heavy sleepe

    Singer: Alessandro Fisher. Performer: Thibaut Garcia.

  • FRIDAY POEM

    The sun has burst its sky by Jenny Joseph, read by Kate Littlewood

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Lilacs Op.21`5

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin.
    • SONY.

  • Gregorio Allegri

    Miserere Mei

    Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Richard Wagner

    Good Friday Music (Parsifal)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • TELDEC.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, D. 46

    Ensemble: Melos Quartett.
    • Schubert: The String Quartets.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 17.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Quatre Motets pour un temps de penitence; no. 2 Vinea mea electa

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Concerto no.2 Op.22 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Emmanuel Krivine.
    • ERATO.

  • Adam Jarz臋bski

    Tamburetta (Concerto a 3 voci & continuo)

    Ensemble: Il Pomo d鈥橭ro.
    • Erato.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Varen (Last Spring), Op.34, no.2

    Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Tognetti.
    • BIS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in F major K.332; 2nd mvt Adagio

    Performer: Piers Lane.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice, Op. 26 (conclusion)

    Performer: Henry Websdale. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • A Requiem for Stephen: Into a Greater Light.
    • Kings College Cambridge.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Cypresses B.152 (no.1)

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Dvorak: American Quartet, Cypresses: Hagen Quartet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

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