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Get going with classical

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 1 May 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Gerald Finzi

    Forlana (5 Bagatelles, Op 23)

    Performer: Amy Dickson. Music Arranger: Lawrence Ashmore. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
  • Howard Skempton

    Lento

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth.
    • Skempton - Lento.
    • NMC.
    • 1.
  • William Byrd

    This sweet and merry month of May

    Choir: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • All at once well met: English Madrigals: The King's Singers.
    • EMI.
    • 35.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV.881 (Book 2, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9-10.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.1 in C major Op.21 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9.
    • Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • 3.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Piano Quintet no.1 in D minor (1st mvt)

    Performer: Anthony Marwood. Ensemble: Domus.
    • HYPERION.
  • John Farmer

    The First Set of English Madrigals: No. 14, A Little Pretty Bonny Lass

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers: Elizabethan Madrigals.
    • Collegium.
    • 1.
  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto grosso in E minor Op3 no.6

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Oiseau Lyre.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in E flat major Op.18 'Grande valse brillante'

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Lang Lang: The Chopin Album.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 15.
  • Fela Sowande

    African Suite (Nostalgia)

    Orchestra: CBC Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Bernardi.
    • Sowande: African Suite.
    • CBC.
    • 15.
  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Canario (Fantas铆a para un gentilhombre)

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Milos Karadaglic - Aranjuez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • J贸hann J贸hannsson

    A Sparrow Alighted upon our Shoulder

    Orchestra: Air Lyndhurst String Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Weeden.
    • 翱谤辫丑茅别.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition

    Performer: Andreas Haefliger.
    • Perspectives 7.
    • BIS.
    • 12-15.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Le nozze di Figaro (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Hans Vonk.
    • Mozart: Overtures: Staatskapelle Dresden/Vonk.
    • Capriccio.
    • 2.
  • Richard Wagner

    Spinning Chorus (The Flying Dutchman)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Louis Lortie.
    • Liszt at the Opera.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Anitra's Dance (Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op.46)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Berglund.
    • EMI.
    • 3.
  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romances Op.22 (no.1)

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Decca.
  • Anton Bruckner

    In April (Im April (WAB. 75)

    Singer: Alois Mulbacher. Performer: Klaus Sonnleitner.
    • Erinnerung.
    • Solo Musica.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Peter and the wolf, Op.67; Finale (Triumphal Procession)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: Stephen Barlow.
    • The Rainbow Bear.
    • ASV.
    • 38.
  • Sir Arthur Somervell

    Piano Concerto in A minor, 'Highland' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martin Roscoe. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Somervell/Cowen: Martin Roscoe/麻豆社 Scottish SO/Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op.64`5 'The Lark' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • AVI MUSIC.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Shepherd & Ah, Sun-Flower (10 Blake Songs)

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Singer: Mark Padmore.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Scott Joplin

    Sunflower slow drag

    Performer: Dick Hyman.
    • Scott Joplin - Piano Works, 1899-1904.
    • RCA.
    • 006.
  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Swedish Rhapsody no.1 'Midsummer Vigil'

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen.
    • SONY.
    • 1.
  • Frederick Loewe

    The Lusty Month of May (Camelot)

    Composer: Alan Jay Lerner. Performer: Julie Andrews.
    • Camelot: Original Cast Recording.
    • Columbia.
    • 5.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet Op.2 'Gradus ad Parnassum' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Chandos.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Atalanta (Overture)

    Performer: John Wallace. Ensemble: Wallace Collection. Ensemble: English Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: William Boughton.
    • Rule Britanna.
    • Nimbus.
    • 21.

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