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Your classical alarm call

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 17 Apr 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    La capricieuse, Op.17

    Music Arranger: Paul Cassidy. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Petits-fours Favourite Encores: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata for 2 Pianos, K.448 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Mozart / Schubert - Perahia, Lupu.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • FranΓ§ois Couperin

    Le Menetou (Pieces de clavecin - ordre no. 7)

    Performer: Thomas Dunford. Performer: Jean Rondeau.
    • Erato.
  • John Cage

    Prelude For Meditation

    Performer: Alexei Lubimov.
    • John Cage: As It Is.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 18.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Komm, Jesu, Komm

    Choir: St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig. Conductor: Georg Christoph Biller.
    • Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Motetten.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 18, 19.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Spring Op.33 no.6

    Music Arranger: Elena Urioste. Music Arranger: Tom Poster. Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • To the Spring.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 401.
  • William Lawes

    Royal Consort Suite no. 6 in D major

    Ensemble: Phantasm. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
    • LINN.
  • Florence Price

    Adoration

    Music Arranger: Jarle StorlΓΈkken. Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Ensemble: tenThing.
    • She Composes Like A Man.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 4.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Rigaudon (Le Tombeau de Couperin)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Ravel, Berkeley, Pounds: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Franz Liszt

    Valses oubliees, No. 2

    Performer: Nelson Goerner.
    • Liszt: Sonate en si mineur, Sonetti di Petrarca, Valse oubliΓ©e No.2, Γ‰tude "La l.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G: Rondo all' ongarese

    Ensemble: Trio Fontenay.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios: Trio Fontenay.
    • Teldec.
    • 9.
  • John Dowland

    The Most High and Mighty Christianus the Fourth, King of Denmark, His Galliard

    Performer: Jonas Nordberg.
    • Lessons.
    • BIS.
    • 1601.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: I. Allegro con brio

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eugen Jochum.
    • Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 3, Festival Academic Overture & Tragic Overture.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Peter Warlock

    3 Belloc Songs (2. The Night)

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Allan Clayton.
    • Songs to the Moon.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • Arvo PΓ€rt

    Darf ich...

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo JΓ€rvi.
    • Onyx.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Folk Festival (The Gadfly)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • The Film Music of Dmitri Shostakovich, Vol.2: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Phil, Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Carl Nielsen

    String Quartet no.1 in G minor Op.13 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Dacapo.
  • Mogens PedersΓΈn

    Nu bede vi den helligaand

    Author: Martin Luther. Choir: Musica Ficta. Conductor: Bo Holten.
    • Reforming Hymns.
    • Dacapo.
    • 124.
  • George Gershwin

    Piano Concerto in F major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Robertson.
    • The Gershwin Moment.
    • Myrios Classics.
    • 8.
  • Dorothy Howell

    Divertissement no. 1

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • Dorothy Howell Orchestral Works.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 103.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major, Op.20 (4th mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Ensemble: Seattle Chamber Players.
    • Onyx.
  • Anon.

    This Merry Pleasant Spring

    Singer: Connor Burrowes. Ensemble: Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet.
    • Consort Songs.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 011.
  • Tom Waits

    You Can Never Hold Back Spring

    Lyricist: Kathleen Brennan. Singer: Tom Waits.
    • Epitaph Europe B.V..
  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op.66

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Chopin: Impromptus, Waltzes & Mazurkas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.
  • Henry Cowell

    Hymn And Fuguing Tune No. 10

    Performer: Celia Nicklin. Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Barber: Adagio For Strings / Copland: Quiet City / Ives: Symphony No.3, etc..
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Giulio Caccini

    Amarilli, mia bella

    Singer: Jakub JΓ³zef OrliΕ„ski.
    • Beyond 001.
    • Warner Music.
    • 4.
  • Richard Wagner

    The Master-Singers of Nuremberg (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: IvΓ‘n Fischer.
    • Wagner: Budapest Festival Orchestra.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 1.
  • 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.
  • Franz Schubert

    Sonata for arpeggione and piano (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Robin Holloway

    Menuetto alla tarantella (Serenade in C)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Holloway: Serenade; Fantasy-Pieces. Schumann: Liederkreis.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

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