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Ease into 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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3 hours

Last on

Fri 26 Apr 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Frederick Delius

    La Calinda

    Music Arranger: Eric Fenby. Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • EMI.
  • Philip Glass

    Facades

    Performer: Cello Octet Conjunto Ibérico. Director: Elias Arizcuren.
    • Orange Mountain Music.
  • Amy Beach

    Berceuse (3 Pieces Op.40)

    Music Arranger: Stephan Koncz. Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita no.1 in B flat major BWV.825 (Praeludium)

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • Decca.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Domine Jesu (Requiem)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Mozart Requiem Reconstruction of First Performances.
    • LINN.
    • 9.
  • Isaac Albéniz

    Asturias (Leyenda)

    Music Arranger: Olivier Chassain. Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • Leyendas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 101.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in D, Op.6 No.4 - 5th & 6th mvts

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Le Concert Spirituel: Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 5.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Violin Concerto in G minor, Op.80 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • British Violin Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Carl Orff

    Ecce gratum (Carmina burana)

    Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Orff: Carmina Burana.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 5.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Oboe Concerto in D minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Katharina Arfken. Ensemble: Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Rondeaux Royaux: The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.
  • Philip Sparke

    Mountain Song

    Ensemble: Gothenburg Symphony Brass Band. Conductor: Bengt Eklund.
    • Versatile Reality.
    • Imogena.
    • 9.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Corpus Christi Carol

    Singer: Ruby Hughes. Performer: Huw Watkins.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    Eden Rock, written and read by Charles Causley

  • Trad.

    Deep River

    Music Arranger: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Music Arranger: Kanneh-Mason Trio. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Braimah Kanneh-Mason.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Niccolò Paganini

    Moto perpetuo in C major, Op 11

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Boston Symphony Orchestra - Great Recordings.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 62.
  • Roger Quilter

    L'Amour de moy

    Performer: Adrian Bradbury. Performer: Andrew West.
    • The Pre-Raphaelite Cello.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 3.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No.9 in E minor "From the New World" (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Krzysztof Urbański.
    • Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World" & A Hero's Song,.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 2.
  • Juan García de Zéspedes

    Convidando está la noche

    Ensemble: The Harp Consort. Director: Andrew Lawrence‐King.
    • Missa Mexicana: The Harp Consort, Andrew King.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 16.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Berlioz: La damnation de Faust.
    • Lso Live.
    • 3.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Piano Quintet No.1 in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • Farrenc: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2.
    • CPO.
    • 2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 13 in D Major, Hob. I:13: IV. Finale: Allegro molto

    Orchestra: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
    • Haydn: Symphonies / Sinfonien Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 14.
  • Edward Elgar

    Softly and gently (The Dream of Gerontius, Op.38)

    Singer: Alice Coote. Choir: Hallé Choir. Choir: Hallé Youth Choir. Orchestra: Halle. Director: Sir Mark Elder.
    • The Dream of Gerontius.
    • Halle.
    • 14.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Finale)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Rhapsodie in E flat major, Op 119 No 4

    Performer: Lars Vogt.
    • Haydn, Brahms, Lachenmann, Schubert: Lars Vogt.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 13.
  • John Beach Cragun

    Saxophone Concerto in E flat (1st mvt)

    Performer: Olli-Pekka Tuomisalo. Orchestra: Olli-Pekka Tuomisalo Orchestra.
    • Lost Saxophone Concertos.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Das Wandern, D 795 No 1 (Die schöne Müllerin)

    Performer: Helmut Deutsch. Singer: Jonas Kaufmann.
    • Jonas Kaufman Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Arthur Bliss

    Red (A Colour Symphony)

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

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