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Classical music to start the day

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

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 25 Mar 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    La fille aux cheveux de lin (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • マウリツィオ・ポリーニĶベスト.
    • Universal Music LLC.
    • 14.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Dornröschen Tone-Pictures (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Anton Rickenbacher.
    • Humperdinck: Fairy-tale music: Bamberger Symphoniker/Rickenbacher.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 7.
  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clio Gould.
    • English String Classics 2: Vaughan Williams/Warlock/Tippet/Elgar etc.
    • Warner Apex.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 850 (Book 1, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • J. S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 1: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 851 (Well-tempered Klavier, Book 1)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • J. S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 1: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Flight of the Bumblebee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The Best of The Academy.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 14.
  • Josef Rheinberger

    Nonet in E flat major, Op 139 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Zoltán Gyöngyössy. Performer: Ica Csizmadia. Performer: Csaba Klenyán. Performer: Gyorgy Lakatos. Performer: Gabor Bizjak. Performer: Péter Somogyi. Performer: Marta Melis. Performer: Marcell Vamos. Performer: István Lukácsházi.
    • Hungaroton.
  • David Miles Temperley Ogden

    I See His Blood

    Choir: Clifton Cathedral Choir. Ensemble: Lochrian Ensemble.
    • Hoxa.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor Op.11 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Kletzki.
    • EMI.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    String quintet in E major Op.11 no.5 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Smithsonian Chamber Players.
    • Boccherini: String Quintets Op.11, Nos. 4-6.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.
  • Emilie Mayer

    Symphony no.6 in E major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Philharmonisches Orchester Bremerhaven. Conductor: Marc Niemann.
    • Emilie Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 3.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 104.
  • Antoine Boësset

    Divine Amaryllis

    Singer: Rogers Covey‐Crump. Performer: Paul O’Dette.
    • HELIOS.
  • William Walton

    Death of Falstaff; Touch her soft lips (Henry V)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Vaughan Williams, Walton, Delius, Zukerman, Black, ECO, Barneboim.
    • Deustche Grammophon.
  • Anoushka Shankar

    In The End

    Performer: Pirashanna Thevarajah. Performer: Danny Keane.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes.
    • Much loved music: Halle Orchestra and Choir/Hughes.
    • EMI.
    • 2.
  • Trad.

    Sogna fiore mio [Dream my flower]

    Music Arranger: Ambrogio Sparagna. Singer: Lucilla Galeazzi. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in F sharp major, Op 78

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • DG.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Infernal Dance (The Firebird - Suite)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The heavens are telling the glory of God (The Creation)

    Singer: Sarah Tynan. Singer: Jeremy Ovenden. Singer: Matthew Brook. Orchestra: Handel and Haydn Society. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Haydn: The Creation.
    • CORO.
    • 14.
  • Augusta Holmès

    Ludus pro patria: II. La Nuit et l'Amour

    Conductor: Nikolaj Znaider. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon.
    • Aux étoiles - French Symphonic Poems.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 7.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Sonata No. 3 In B Minor, Op. 58 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Chopin: Piano Sonatas Nos.2 & 3.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio sonata in G major Op.2`12 (Ciacona)

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Latina. Director: Giordano Antonelli.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi: 88875174822.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Danse russe (3 Movements from Petrushka)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 1.

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