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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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Wed 13 Nov 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Josquin des Prez

    Qui habitat in adjutorio Altissimi [for 24 voices]

    Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble. Director: Paul Van Nevel.
    • Utopia Triumphans.
    • Sony.
    • 3.
  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite: Elegy

    Performer: Cory Band. Conductor: Philip Harper.
    • Landscapes.
    • DOYEN.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Cello Sonata in G minor for Cello and Piano, Op.19 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord (1st mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Katy Bircher. Performer: Marcin 艢wi膮tkiewicz.
    • Bach: Double & Triple Concertos.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 4.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Morning Mood (Peer Gynt)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16 & Peer Gynt, Op. 23.
    • Chandos.
    • 109.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A Major K.622 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Mario Venzago.
    • Julian Bliss: Nielsen Clarinet Concerto, Mozart Clarinet Concerto.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Les baricades mist茅rieuses (Pi猫ces de clavecin, Ordre no.6)

    Performer: Jean Rondeau. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Erato.
  • Charles Trenet

    Verlaine - Chanson d鈥檃utomne

    Lyricist: Paul Verlaine. Performer: Charles Trenet. Ensemble: Jazz de Paris.
    • Charles Trenet: The Very Best.
    • Efor, S.L.
    • 17.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Alla Hornpipe (Water Music, Suite No 2)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Naive.
  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Kyrie (Westminster Mass)

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O鈥橠onnell.
    • WARNER.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.3 in E-flat, 'Eroica' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Storstr酶ms Kammerensemble. Conductor: 8 Bit.
    • Beethoven: Complete Symphonies.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.
  • John Dowland

    Time stands still

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • DG.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Dolly Suite: Berceuse

    Performer: Bruno Rigutto. Performer: Jean鈥怭hilippe Collard.
    • Faur茅: Barcarolles, Impromptus, Valses-caprices, Romances sans paroles, Dolly, S.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 17.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, H.7e.1 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Alison Balsom.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.
  • William Lawes

    Royal Consort Suite no. 6 in D major

    Ensemble: Phantasm. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny.
    • LINN.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Forlane (Le Tombeau de Couperin)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Ravel, Berkeley, Pounds: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 102.
  • Franz Liszt

    La Campanella S.141`3 [after Paganini]

    Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni. Performer: Andrey Gugnin.
    • Hyperion.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Mazurka (Masquerade Suite)

    Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin.
    • BMG.
  • Gavin Bryars

    Jesus Blood never failed me yet (extr)

    Ensemble: Gavin Bryars Ensemble.
    • GB Records.
  • Claude Debussy

    Sir猫nes (Nocturnes for Orchestra)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Debussy: Nocturnes/La Mer/Jeux: Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in A major Kk.208

    Performer: Pierre Hanta茂.
    • MIRARE.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony No. 8 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Dvor谩k: Symphonies Nos.8 & 9 "From the New World".
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    脌 Chloris

    Singer: Stephen Varcoe. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Reynaldo Hahn: Songs (Hyperion French Song Edition).
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Air (Orchestral Suite No 3)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • 100 Best Relaxing Classics.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • George Gershwin

    Piano Concerto in F major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Robertson.
    • The Gershwin Moment.
    • Myrios Classics.
    • 8.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Photography (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra X. Conductor: Nicholas Kok.
    • NMC.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Humoreske [for wind quintet]

    Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • French Music for Winds.
    • WARNER.
    • 7.

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