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Perk up your morning 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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3 hours

Last on

Wed 10 Apr 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major Op.57

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Late Masterpieces, Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.
  • John Blow

    Ground in G Minor

    Ensemble: La Rêveuse. Conductor: Florence Bolton. Conductor: Benjamin Perrot.
    • Circa 1700: Purcell & his Generation.
    • Mirare.
    • 109.
  • Haydn Wood

    Violin Concerto in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen! - Ihr konnet verjagen (Cantata BWV.66)

    Singer: Kai Wessel. Singer: Peter Kooij. Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Director: Phillipe Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Robert Schumann

    Arabeske

    Performer: Fabrizio Chiovetta.
    • Schumann: Fantasie, Arabeske, Kinderszenen.
    • 貹é.
    • 4.
  • Franz Schubert

    Hark, Hark, the lark

    Author: William Shakespeare. Performer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau. Performer: Gerald Moore.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco

    Sea Murmurs

    Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Maria Todtenhaupt.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Lute Concerto in D RV.93

    Performer: Thomas Dunford. Ensemble: Jupiter.
    • ALPHA.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 6 in D flat

    Orchestrator: Albert Parlow. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • DECCA.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    The Gadfly Suite Op.97a (Galop)

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Shostakovich: Film Music Vol.2: 鶹Լ Philharmonic/Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Agathe Backer-Grøndahl

    Serenade

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Ensemble: tenThing.
    • She Composes Like A Man.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 9.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • DECCA.
  • Louis‐Claude Daquin

    Le Coucou

    Performer: Anne Queffélec.
    • The Complete Erato Recordings.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 162.
  • Jean Féline

    Coucou

    Composer: Roger Henry Bertrand. Composer: Antonio Matas. Performer: Django Reinhardt. Singer: Josette Daydé. Ensemble: Quintette du Hot Club de France.
    • Django Reinhardt 1940.
    • Classics.
    • 13.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Flight of the Bumblebee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Donald Hunsberger.
    • SONY.
  • Federico Mompou

    Música callada II No.16

    Performer: Xiaowen Shang.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No. 3 in E flat major, K447 - 3rd mvt Allegro

    Performer: Sarah Willis. Orchestra: Havana Lyceum Orchestra. Conductor: José Antonio Méndez Padrón.
    • Alpha.
  • Marin Marais

    La sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont de Paris

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Tous Les Matins Du Monde: Bande Originale du Film, Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Alison Travers

    A Mood

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Lyricist: Edward J Macdermott. Singer: Thomas Allen.
    • Songs My Father Taught Me: Parlour Songs & Ballads.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 44 No. 1: III. Andante espressivo ma con mo

    • Schubert, Mozart and Mendelssohn.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • 11.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    It was a Lover and his Lass

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Singer: Simon Keenlyside.
    • Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge / Five Mystical Songs (English Song, Vol. 3).
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesfreud

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Paul Coker.
    • The Kreisler Album.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Frank Churchill

    Little April Shower (From "Bambi"/Soundtrack Version)

    Composer: Larry Morey. Lyricist: Frank Churchill. Lyricist: Larry Morey. Conductor: Charles Henderson. Choir: Disney Studio Chorus.
    • Bambi.
    • Walt Disney Records.
    • 4.
  • Ned Rorem

    Rain in Spring

    Performer: Alisdair Hogarth. Lyricist: Paul Goodman. Singer: Tim Mead.
    • Ned Rorem: On and Echoing Road.
    • Linn Records.
    • 3.
  • William Alwyn

    April Shower (April Morn)

    • Alwyn: Piano Music, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • John Field

    Variations on a Russian Folksong

    Performer: Piers Lane.
    • Field: Variations on a Russian Folksong.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Constant Lambert

    Romeo and Juliet,1st tableau: Rondino; Gavotte & Trio

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Norman Del Mar.
    • Lambert: Romeo and Juliet/Pomona/Muni.
    • Lyrita.
    • 1-2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.3 in E-flat, 'Eroica' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Storstrøms Kammerensemble. Conductor: 8 Bit.
    • Beethoven: Complete Symphonies.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.
  • Thomas Tallis

    If ye love me

    Ensemble: The Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.
    • English Motets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • George Gershwin

    Love walked in

    Music Arranger: Percy Grainger. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Saint-Saëns/Ravel/Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Decca.
    • 10.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Treasure Waltz

    Performer: Heinz Medjimorec. Performer: Alfred Mitterhofer. Music Arranger: Anton Webern. Ensemble: Alban Berg Quartett.
    • Strauss: Walzer.
    • EMI.
    • 7.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Suite for Viola & Orchestra, Group 3: III Galop. Allegro molto

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jamie Phillips.
    • Music for Viola and Chamber Orchestra.
    • Claves.
    • 8.
  • Henry Purcell

    Fantazia Upon a Ground

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien. Director: François Lazarevitch.
    • Purcell: Songs & Dances.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 14.

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