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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. Winner of Best Audio Arts and Music Programme (Voice of the Listener and Viewer Awards).

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Mon 20 May 2024 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Rigaudon (Holberg suite, Op.40)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Grieg Holberg Suite.
    • BIS.
    • 005.

  • Giovanni Battista Bononcini

    Ave maris stella

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Singer: Giles Underwood. Singer: Guy Cutting. Singer: Helen Charlston. Singer: Rowan Pierce. Director: Owen Rees. Singer: Esther Lay. Choir: Choir of Queen's College, Oxford.
    • How Are The Mighty Fallen: Choral Music by Giovanni Bononcini.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 101.

  • Lilian Elkington

    Out of the Mist

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Elgar - The Spirit of England etc..
    • Dutton Laboratories.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Adagio (After Bach's Violin Concerto No. 2, BWV 1042)

    Performer: Gabriela Montero. Music Arranger: Gabriela Montero.
    • Bach and Beyond.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Octet in E flat major Op.20 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Australian Chamber Orchestra.
    • BIS.

  • Frank Bridge

    The Bee

    Choir: Tenebrae. Director: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Nancy Kerr

    Dark Honey

    Performer: Nancy Kerr. Performer: Andy Cutting. Performer: Martin Simpson.
    • Murmurs.
    • Topic Records.
    • 3.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.2 in D major Op.43 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic. Conductor: John Storg氓rds.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Amy Beach

    Rosemary and Rue (From Grandmother's Garden, Op 97)

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Guild.

  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Butterworth/Delius: English Rhapsody: Halle, Elder.
    • Halle.
    • 4.

  • Franz Schubert

    Am Bach im Fr眉hling D361

    Performer: Ammiel Bushakevitz. Singer: Konstantin Krimmel.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A minor Op.7 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Holly Mathieson.
    • Decca.

  • Judith Weir

    Berceuse (Nuits d'Afrique)

    Singer: Ailish Tynan. Ensemble: Hebrides Ensemble.
    • Airs From Another Planet.
    • Delphian.
    • 01.

  • Ronald Binge

    Elizabethan Serenade

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • Elizabethan Serenade.
    • Naxos.
    • 15.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    May Night (Overture)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Philips.

  • Henryk Miko艂aj G贸recki

    Totus tuus

    Choir: Exultate Singers. Director: David Ogden.
    • Panufnik/Vaughan Williams/Tavener/Gorecki: All shall be well: Exultate Singers.
    • Naxos.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid - Old Viennese Dance No. 2

    Performer: Geneva Lewis. Performer: Sam Armstrong.

  • Claude Debussy

    Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune

    Conductor: Mariss Jansons. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Debussy: Pr茅lude 脿 l鈥檃pr猫s-midi d鈥檜n faune.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 101.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite in D Major, HWV 341 "Mr. Handel's Water Piece"

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

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No 39 in D major, H XVI 24 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Haydn Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Max Bruch

    Kol Nidrei Op.47

    Performer: Edgar Moreau. Orchestra: Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: Michael Sanderling.
    • ERATO.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Piano Concerto no.1 in B flat minor, Op.23 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Beatrice Rana. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Beatrice Rana: Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev Piano Concertos.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
    • 07.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in B Flat Major RV.583 (Ciaconna)

    Performer: Th茅otime Langlois de Swarte. Ensemble: Le Consort.
    • Vivaldi: Concerti per una vita.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 28.

  • Teresa Carre帽o

    Un r锚ve en mer, Op 28

    Performer: Alexandra Oehler.
    • Teresa Carreno: Klavierwerke (Piano works).
    • ARS MUSICI.
    • 005.

Broadcast

  • Mon 20 May 2024 06:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3

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