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

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Music Played

  • Luise Adolpha Le Beau

    Three Pieces for Viola and Piano, Op. 26: II. Tr盲umerei (Langsam)

    Performer: Hillary Herndon. Performer: Wei-Chun Bernadette Lo.
    • La Viola: Music for Viola and Piano by Women Composers of the 20th Century.
    • MSR Classics.
    • 11.

  • Christopher Simpson

    The Four Seasons: Winter: II. Ayre

    Ensemble: Sirius VIOLS.
    • Simpson: The Four Seasons.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.

  • Florence Price

    Adoration

    Music Arranger: Jarle Storl酶kken. Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Ensemble: tenThing.
    • She Composes Like A Man.
    • Lawo Classics.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV 61, 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland'

    Singer: Joanne Lunn. Singer: Jan Kobow. Singer: Dietrich Henschel. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Director: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SDG.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid

    Music Arranger: Sergey Rachmaninov. Performer: Kirill Gerstein.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Frozen River Flows

    Performer: Roman Mints. Performer: Raimondas Sviackevi膷ius. Performer: Donatas Bagurskas.
    • Dobrinka Tabakova - String Paths.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 005.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in E flat major Op.74 'Harp' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Beethoven: String Quartets Nos. 10 & 13, Opp. 74 & 130.
    • BIS.
    • 101.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, "Classical" (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Prokofiev: Pierre et le loup; Symphonie Classique Op.25; Marche Op.99; Overture.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 16.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No. 4 , K. 495 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 12.

  • Judith Weir

    Drop down, ye heavens, from above

    Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.
    • Advent at Merton.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 5.

  • William Byrd

    Rorarte caeli desuper

    Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Advent at Merton.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 3.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.4 in A major Op.90 'Italian' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • ALPHA CLASSICS.

  • Franz Schubert

    Allegretto in C minor, D 915

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Schubert, Live, Volume 3: Imogen Cooper.
    • Avie.
    • 9.

  • Vincent Youmans

    Tahiti Trot, Op. 16 (Tea for Two)

    Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Shostakovich: Jazz & Variety Suites.
    • BIS.
    • 501.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Double Concerto for Violin and Cello (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Orchestra: Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor, Op. 102.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 103.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Surrey with the fringe on top (Oklahoma)

    Singer: Marlene Dietrich.
    • The Very Best Of Marlene Dietrich.
    • Disconforme.
    • 7.

  • Enrique Granados

    Lament of the Maiden and the Nightingale

    Performer: Melvyn Tan.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G: Rondo all' ongarese

    Ensemble: Trio Fontenay.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios: Trio Fontenay.
    • Teldec.
    • 9.

  • Katharine Parton

    Gaudebat et Ridebat

    Choir: 麻豆约拍 Singers. Performer: Murray Sedgewick. Conductor: Toby Ward.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Lute Concerto in D RV.93

    Performer: Thomas Dunford. Ensemble: Jupiter.
    • ALPHA.

  • Louis Vierne

    Violin Sonata (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • HYPERION.

  • Edward Elgar

    The Blue-Eyes Fairy (The Starlight Express, Op 78)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Elgar: The Starlight Express: Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.
    • 17.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto (Finale)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • EMI.

  • Franz Schubert

    Der Leiermann (Winterreise)

    Singer: Nata拧a Mirkovi膰-De Ro. Performer: Matthias Loibner.
    • Winterreise.
    • Raumklang.
    • 24.

  • Matthias Loibner

    Augenblick

    Performer: Matthias Loibner.
    • Lichtungen.
    • Traumton Records.
    • 6.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Maurice Ravel: Ma M猫re L鈥檕ye; Bol茅ro; Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales; Pavane Pou.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • Robert Schumann

    Papillons, Op 2 (No 12 in D major)

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Decca.

  • Henry Purcell

    Three parts upon a ground, Z.731

    Ensemble: Taverner Players.
    • EMI.

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