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Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning.

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3 hours

Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    6 Moments musicaux D.780 (no.4 in C sharp minor)

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Nainita Desai

    My Mind is Still

    Performer: Thomas Gould. Performer: Leif Kaner‐Lidström. Performer: Elsa Bradley. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Choir: VOCES8.
    • Infinity.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.
  • Bernhard Crusell

    Clarinet Concerto no. 2 in F minor Op.5; II. Andante pastorale

    Performer: Martin Frost. Conductor: Okko Kamu. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
    • BIS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude And Fugue In C, BWV 547

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • Bach, J.S.: Complete Organ Works.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no.8 in G major Op.88 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Sony.
  • Robert Schumann

    Märchenbilder, Op. 113: IV. Langsam, mit melancholischem Ausdruck

    Performer: Dasol Kim. Performer: Maxim Rysanov.
    • Onyx.
  • Franz Lehár

    Gold and silver - waltz Op.79

    Orchestra: Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester. Conductor: Martin Sieghart.
    • Wien, Weib Und Gesang.
    • ARTE NOVA.
    • 7.
  • Heino Kaski

    Night by the Sea, Op. 34 No. 1

    Performer: Izumi Tateno.
    • Heino Kaski: Night by the Sea.
    • Fazer Records/Finlandia.
    • 14.
  • Frederick Delius

    On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Delius: Violin Concerto: Little/Welsh National Opera Orchestra/Mackerras.
    • ARGO.
    • 4.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G flat major, Op 23 No 10

    Performer: Zlata Chochieva.
  • Max Bruch

    Romance for viola and orchestra, Op 85

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Nigel Hess

    Ladies in Lavender

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • The Silver Violin: Nicola Benedetti.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • George Gershwin

    Gershwin Songbook: No. 5, I Got Rhythm

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett.
    • Rhapsody.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 32.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets - suite Op.32; Jupiter, the bringer of jollity

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Conductor: John Storgårds.
    • Recorded at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester on Saturday 21 September 2024.
  • Henry Mancini

    Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

    Singer: Audrey Hepburn.
    • Music From The Films Of Audrey Hepburn.
    • Giant.
    • 11.
  • Ron Goodwin

    Frenzy (Film Theme)

    Orchestra: Ron Goodwin and His Concert Orchestra.
    • That Magnificent Man and His Music Machine: Two Sides of Ron Goodwin.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 12.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 8 in F major, Op 93 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • LSO Live.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Fanfarinette (Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin)

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.
    • Rameau: Pieces de Clavecin.
    • HYPERION.
    • 5.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Die Zauberflöte, K620; Overture

    Conductor: René Jacobs. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Kathryn Tickell

    Sycamore Gap

    Performer: Kathryn Tickell.
    • Self Release.
  • George Butterworth

    Loveliest of trees (A Shropshire Lad)

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Bryn Terfel.
    • DG.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in F major Op.6`2

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • Corelli: The Complete Concerti Grossi.
    • Zig Zag Territoires.
    • 26.
  • William Walton

    Orb and Sceptre

    Performer: Noel Rawsthorne. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • EMI.
  • Jennifer Higdon

    Piano Trio (1st mvmt, Pale Yellow)

    Performer: Anne Akiko Meyers. Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Adam Neiman.
    • NAXOS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    All we, like sheep, have gone astray (Messiah)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Handel: Messiah: Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
    • Philips.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D for 2 violins and strings, RV 512

    Performer: David Oistrakh. Performer: Isaac Stern. Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • SONY.

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