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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. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask 成人快手 Sounds to play Breakfast.鈥�

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Music Played

  • Edwin York Bowen

    R锚verie d'amour, Op.20`2

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • William Lawes

    "Sunrise" Fantazy

    Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Channel.

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quartet in E flat, Op.47 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Schumann: Piano Quartet - Piano Quintet.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    T枚net, ihr Pauken! (Cantata 214)

    Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Bach: Secular Cantatas.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 10.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in E flat, D 899

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Schubert: Four Impromptus, D899 & D935: Radu Lupu.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Howard Skempton

    He wishes for the cloths of heaven

    Composer: William Butler Yeats. Ensemble: EXAUDI. Conductor: James Weeks.
    • MODE.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Sinfonia concertante in B flat major H.1.105 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Hyperion.

  • Trad.

    Nobody Knows the Trouble I See

    Performer: Peter Moore. Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Director: Ian Porthouse. Ensemble: Tredegar Band.
    • Shift.
    • Chandos.
    • 109.

  • L茅o Delibes

    Mazurka from "Copp茅lia"

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Delibes: Copp茅lia / Chopin: Les Sylphides / Gounod: Faust Ballet Music.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Frederick Loewe

    Camelot: If Ever I Would Leave You

    Lyricist: Alan Jay Lerner. Singer: Robert Goulet. Orchestra: Camelot Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Allers.
    • Camelot (Original Broadway Cast Recording).
    • Masterworks Broadway.
    • 12.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Leonora Duarte

    Sinfonia No 5 for 5-part viol consort

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Birds On Fire.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 10.

  • FRIDAY POEM

    The Old Love by Katharine Tynan, read by Joanne Froggatt

  • Joan Trimble

    The Green Bough

    Performer: Una Hunt. Performer: Roy Holmes.
    • Joan Trimble: Songs and Chamber Music.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 13.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 3, "Eroica" (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer.
    • Beethoven: Complete Symphonies.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Franz Schubert

    Im Fr眉hling, D.882

    Singer: Margaret Price. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • FORLANE.

  • Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli

    Violin Sonata Op.3`2 'La Cesta'

    Performer: Andrew Manze. Performer: Richard Egarr. Performer: Fred Jacobs.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.

  • Albert Roussel

    Divertissement Op.6

    Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • WARNER.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major, Op.20 (4th mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Ensemble: Seattle Chamber Players.
    • Onyx.

  • Claude Debussy

    Ib茅ria: Par les rues et par les chemins

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Debussy:Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune, Images Pour Orchestre; Printemps (Sui.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Ned Rorem

    Spring Music: Aubade

    Performer: Monica Bauchwitz. Performer: Ariane Lallemand. Performer: Evelyne Luest - Piano.
    • Ned Rorem - Nine Episodes For Four Players / Dances / Spring Music.
    • Phoenix USA.
    • 17.

  • Tommy Wolf

    Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most

    Lyricist: Fran Landesman.
    • Winchester in Apple Blossom Time.
    • Branditmusic.
    • 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concertos: SCO / Collins.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite no.3 (Bourr茅es)

    Performer: Paul Tortelier.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    The Sea Hawk (Main title; Reunion; Finale)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Gerhardt.
    • Korngold: The Sea Hawk: National Philharmonic Orchestra/Gerhardt.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Fantasia in C

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • Haydn : Piano Sonatas Nos 59 - 62 & Fantasia in C major - Elatus.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony no.1 in D major Op.25 'Classical' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.

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