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Start the day with classical music

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

3 hours

Last on

Wed 24 Apr 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G Major Op.77 no.1 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Consone Quartet.
    • Ambronay.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    The Woman with the Alabaster Box

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • The Deer's Cry.
    • CORO.
    • 5.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11: II. Romance. Larghetto

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
    • Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV.230

    Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
    • Johann Sebastian Bach: Motets.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Incidental Music, Op. 23: No. 13, Prelude to Act IV. "Morning Mood"

    Lyricist: Henrik Ibsen. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: Bergen Filharmoniske Kor. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Grieg: Piano Concerto & Incidental Music to \"Peer Gynt\".
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    La campanella

    Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler. Performer: Francesca Dego. Performer: Francesca Leonardi.
    • Il Cannone.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Marianna Martines

    Concerto per Cembalo in G Major: III. Allegro

    Performer: Nicoleta Paraschivescu. Ensemble: La Floridiana.
    • Marianna Martines: La tempesta.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 6.
  • Josef Rheinberger

    Suite for violin, cello and organ, Op 149 - 4th movement, Finale

    Performer: Christopher Herrick. Performer: Paul Barritt. Performer: Richard Lester.
    • Suites for organ, violin & cello Op 149 and six pieces for violin & organ Op150.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture, Op 96

    Orchestra: Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Shostakovich: Symphony no. 5, Piano Concerto no. 2: Dallas Symphony Orchestra, A.
    • Delos.
  • Louis Spohr

    Nonet in F major Op.31 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 1 in G minor, "Winter Daydreams" (3rd movement, Scherzo)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • LPO.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    La Comm猫re (Pi猫ces de clavecin, Ordre No 6)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Couperin: Keyboard Music 1: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Bartered Bride (Overture)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Feria (Rapsodie espagnole for two pianos)

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que.
    • Maurice Ravel: Katia and Marielle Labeque.
    • KML.
    • 4.
  • Jean Richafort

    Requiem: Offertory

    Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • Richaport: Requiem.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 604.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Septet in E flat major Op.65 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Les Soirees musicales - No. 8 La Danza (Tarantella Neopoletana)

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • Black Dyke Plays Rossini.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for 2 oboes, strings and continuo in A minor, RV 536

    Performer: Rachel Chaplin. Performer: Mark Baigent. Performer: Adrian Chandler. Ensemble: La Serenissima.
    • Avie.
  • Hugh Robertson

    All in the April evening

    Choir: Laudibus.
    • Helios.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor Op.2 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet, Piano Trio, Piano Quintet.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Era l'anima mia, SV 96

    Choir: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • Leonardo: Shaping the Invisible.
    • CORO.
    • 3.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto no. 5 in E flat major Op.73 (Emperor)

    Performer: Jonathan Biss. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Afkham.
    • Orchid Classics.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet No. 3 in C Major, K. 515: IV. Allegro

    Performer: Adrien La Marca. Ensemble: Van Kuijk Quartet.
    • Mozart: String Quintets K. 515 & 516.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata no. 11 BWV.11 (Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen) (Ascension oratorio)

    Lyricist: Anonymous. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Lionel Meunier. Choir: Vox Luminis.
    • Bach & Telemann: Himmelfahrt.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 1.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jennifer Pike. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30, Act 2 - "Che puro ciel!"

    Singer: Jakub J贸zef Orli艅ski. Orchestra: Il Giardino d'Amore. Choir: Choir of Il Giardino d'Amore. Conductor: Stefan Plewniak.
    • Erato.

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