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Classical music to set you up for the day

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with the Friday poem and music that captures the mood of the morning. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Fri 21 Jun 2024 06:30
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Music Played

  • Henry Purcell

    One Charming Night

    Singer: Tim Mead. Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien. Director: François Lazarevitch.
    • Purcell: Songs & Dances.
    • ALPHA.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Queen Mab scherzo (Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • DECCA.

  • Chick Corea

    Children's Song no.1

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Pentatone.
    • 1952459.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction and Allegro in G flat major

    Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Soloists.
    • ±õ²Ô»å鳧±ð²Ô²õ.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Weinen, klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (Cantata 12)

    Music Arranger: Víkingur Ólafsson. Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 101 in D major 'The Clock' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Sony/RCA Red Seal.

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Sonata in C, Op. 1 no 5

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • ALPHA.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Song of the lentisk gatherers (5 Popular Greek Melodies)

    Lyricist: Trad..
    • Kiri in Recital.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.

  • Percy Grainger

    Country Gardens

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • CHANDOS.

  • John Wilbye

    Adew, sweet Amarillis for 4 voices [1598]

    Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • Madrigals.
    • VIRGIN VERITAS.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Early Morning Bathe (Holiday diary - suite Op.5)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Britten: Piano works.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • 001.

  • Harold Budd & Brian Eno

    First Light

    • Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror (Remastered 2004).
    • EMI Marketing.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no 27 in B flat, K595

    Performer: Robert Levin. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 25 & 27.
    • AAM Recordings.

  • FRIDAY POEM

    Stargazer by Jo Shapcott, read by Lucy Black

  • Manuel Ponce

    Estrellita

    Performer: Elena Urioste.
    • Bis.
    • BIS2428.

  • Aaron Copland

    Hoe-down (Rodeo - 4 Dance Episodes)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Billy the Kid: San Francisco SO, Tilson Thom.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 006.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'

    Composer: Oscar Hammerstein II. Singer: Gordon MacRae.
    • Oklahoma!.
    • Capitol.
    • 2.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in B flat major, Op.130 (5th mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • ECM.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in B flat major, Kk.248

    Performer: Pierre Hantaï.
    • Astree.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    A Midsummer Night's Dream (extracts)

    Composer: Felix Mendelssohn. Singer: Scot Weir. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Gerd Albrecht.
    • CPO.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Giulio Cesare, HWV 17, Act I, Scene 9: Va tacito

    Performer: Anneke Scott. Performer: Miriam Kaczor. Music Arranger: John Walsh. Orchestra: Irish Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Whelan.
    • Linn.

  • Chris Stout

    White Nights

    Performer: Chris Stout. Performer: Catriona McKay.
    • White Nights.
    • McKay Stout Music.

  • Albert Roussel

    Divertissement Op.6

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov. Ensemble: Orsino Ensemble.
    • Chandos.

  • William Alwyn

    Bicycle Ride

    Performer: Mark Bebbington.
    • SOMM.

  • Doreen Carwithen

    Framlingham Castle (Suffolk Suite)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony no.4 in E minor (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • DECCA.
    • 5.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Piano Quintet (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Boris Giltburg. Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Supraphon.

  • John Dankworth

    Shall I compare thee to a summer's day

    Author: William Shakespeare. Singer: Cleo Laine. Performer: John Dankworth.
    • VERVE REISSUES.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quintet in C (4th mvt)

    Performer: Heinrich Schiff. Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • DG.

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