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Start the day right 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. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

3 hours

Music Played

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid (Old Viennese Dances)

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Paul Coker.
    • Kreisler: Liebesleid, Liebesfreud: Joshua Bell.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.38 in D major K.504 'Prague' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Prague Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 36, 38, 40, 41.
    • Supraphon.
    • 7.
  • James McMillan

    The Gallant Weaver

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in A minor for flute, violin and harpsichord BWV1044 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Lisa Beznosiuk. Performer: Simon Standage. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Milos Aranjuez.
    • DG.
    • 2.
  • Scott Joplin

    Weeping willow

    Performer: Dick Hyman.
    • Scott Joplin - Piano Works, 1899-1904.
    • RCA.
    • 013.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in F major Wq.175

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Bernhard Forck.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka‐Pekka Saraste.
    • Sibelius: Symphony No.1, Karelia etc: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Saraste.
    • RCA.
    • 6.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major, Op 73, 'Emperor' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos: Perahia/Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Haitink.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Moisés Simons

    The Peanut Vendor

    Ensemble: The King’s Singers. Ensemble: Gordon Langford Trio.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Henry Purcell

    The Indian Queen: Overture and Trumpet Tune

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • OISEAU LYRE.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas, read by Patrick Malahide

  • Edward MacDowell

    Told at Sunset [Woodland Sketches, Op.51]

    Performer: James Barbagallo.
    • MACDOWELL: Woodland Sketches / Fireside Tales / New England Idyls.
    • Naxos.
    • 10.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sinfonia, Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Archiv.
  • Amy Beach

    Piano Concerto in C Sharp Minor Op.45 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Danny Driver. Orchestra: 鶹Լ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • Hyperion.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Feria (Rapsodie espagnole)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Ravel: Rhapsodie Espagnole etc: Orchestre de Paris/Bychkov.
    • Philips.
    • 4.
  • Robert Planquette

    Les Cloches de Corneville: Overture

    Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Marc‐Antoine Charpentier

    Te Deum H.146 (Prelude)

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Will Todd

    My Lord has come

    Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • A Pembroke Christmas.
    • Signum Records.
    • 12.
  • Hubert Bath

    Cornish Rhapsody

    Performer: Philip Fowke. Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Proinnsías Ó Duinn.
    • Piano Concertos from the Movies.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Norfolk Rhapsody No.1

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Norman Del Mar.
    • EMI.
  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jakub Hrůša.
    • Tchaikovsky/Bruch: Violin Concertos: Nicola Benedetti.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Herbert Howells

    King David for baritone and piano

    Singer: James Newby. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
  • Mel Brooks

    Overture: The Producers

    Orchestra: The Producers Orchestra. Conductor: Patrick Brady.
    • The Producers (Original Broadway Cast Recording).
    • Masterworks Broadway.
    • 1.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D minor, K 64

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • D. Scarlatti: Sonatas: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 11.
  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Symphony No.5 in F minor (Op.42`1) for organ; 5th mvt - Toccata

    Performer: Pierre Lebric.
    • SOLSTICE.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.6 in C major D.589 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: B’Rock Orchestra. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 203.

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