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Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning 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 23 Aug 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade in E minor for strings, Op 20

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Arvo Pärt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Fantasie.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 6.
  • Roderick Williams

    Let Nothing Trouble You

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor, BWV 1052 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Christophe Rousset. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • J.S. Bach The Complete Harpsichord Concertos.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Prelude (The Birds)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3 - I. Presto

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 7-12.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Charles Avison

    Concerto Grosso in C major, Op 9 No 5

    Performer: Pavlo Beznosiuk. Ensemble: Avison Ensemble. Director: Pavlo Beznosiuk.
    • The Avison Ensemble: Avison: Concerti Grossi, op. 9 & op. 10.
    • Divine Art.
    • 17.
  • Alexandre Desplat

    The Shape of Water

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: Duncan Ward.
    • Les choses de la vie - Cinema 2.
    • ERATO.
    • 17.
  • Léo Delibes

    Mazurka from "Coppélia"

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Delibes: Coppélia / Chopin: Les Sylphides / Gounod: Faust Ballet Music.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • John Field

    Piano Concerto No. 4: III. Rondo. Allegretto

    Performer: Míċeál O'Rourke. Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Field: Concertos, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Waltz 2 (Suite no.2 for Jazz Band)

    Music Arranger: Paul Campbell. Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Charles Mutter. Performer: Michael Gray. Performer: Timothy Welch. Performer: Ben Dawson. Performer: Benjamin Hughes. Performer: Andrew Wood.
    • RISE.
    • Decca.
    • 12.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    "Dream Song" by Walter de la Mare, read by Patrick Romer

  • Franz Schubert

    Nacht und Traume, D.827

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Dénes Várjon.
    • Steven Isserlis: Chopin Cello Sonata & Schubert Arpeggione Sonata.
    • HYPERION.
    • 12.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.35 in D major K.385 'Haffner' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Bernhard Forck.
    • Mozart: Paris & Haffner Symphonies & Oboe Concerto.
    • Pentatone.
    • 101.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Cello Sonata in B major, Op 46 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kirsten Whitson. Performer: Mary Ellen Haupert.
    • Centaur.
  • John Stanley

    Trumpet Voluntary

    Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Newman.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Christian Frederik Emil Horneman

    Aladdin: Overture

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Schønwandt.
    • DACAPO.
  • Francisco Tárrega

    Recuerdos de la Alhambra

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • The Guitar: Milos Karadaglic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 2 in C minor, Op 17, 'Little Russian' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Tchaikovsky; Mussorgsky.
    • Onyx.
    • 3.
  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romances, Op. 22 (Arr. for Oboe & Piano); No. 1 Andante molto

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Julius Drake. Music Arranger: Nicholas Daniel.
    • Schumann: Works for Oboe & Piano.
    • Chandos Records.
    • 106.
  • Joseph Kosma

    Les Feuilles Mortes

    Lyricist: Jacques Prévert. Singer: Juliette Gréco. Conductor: André Popp.
    • International Graffiti Volume 1.
    • Polydor.
    • 2.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 3 in F major, Op 90 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 (Complete): COE, Berglund.
    • Ondine.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op.50`6 'The Frog' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: London Haydn Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    E lucevan le stelle (Tosca)

    Singer: Joseph Calleja. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Marco Armiliato.
    • Decca.
  • Ernest John Moeran

    In the Mountain Country

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Fuga y Mistero

    Music Arranger: Steven Verhelst. Ensemble: Brass and Percussion of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Ivan Meylemans.
    • Brass Too: RCO Brass.
    • RCO.
    • 12.

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