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Morning Classical

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

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3 hours

Music Played

  • Henry Purcell

    Sound The Trumpet (Come Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323)

    Singer: James Bowman. Singer: Michael Chance. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Purcell Essentials.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 12.
  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Grainger: Solo Piano Music: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Mandolin Concerto in G Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Avi Avital. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Concertos.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 13.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg variations (BWV.988) ..., Aria & Variations 1-...

    Performer: Sarah Macdonald.
    • REGENT.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    String Quintet no.11 in E major, G.275 (Minuet)

    Orchestra: Europa Galante.
    • Boccherini: String Quintets.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 13.
  • Domenico Zipoli

    Ave maris stella

    Ensemble: Ex Cathedra Choir. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Moon, Sun and all things; Baroque Music from Latin America - 2.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 14 in E flat major, K 449 (1st mvt, chamber version)

    Performer: Thomas Beijer. Ensemble: Camerata RCO.
    • Gutman Records.
  • Aaron Copland

    Simple Gifts (Appalachian Spring)

    Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Hugh Wolff.
    • Copland: The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra/Wolff.
    • Teldec.
    • 20.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Berceuse romantique

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Paul Coker.
    • Decca.
  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Bachiana brasileira No 5 (Aria)

    Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Ensemble: Lynn Harrell Ensemble. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne: Kiri Te Kanawa.
    • Decca.
    • 14.
  • Samuel Scheidt

    Canzon ad imitationem from Battle Suite

    Music Arranger: Philip Jones. Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • La Battaglia: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Susan Spain-Dunk

    The Farmer's Boy

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Stephen Bell.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Jeux d'Eau

    Performer: Thomas Kelly.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 8 in B minor, D 759, 'Unfinished' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Schubert: 8 Symphonies: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne in D flat major, Op 27 No 2

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes and Impromptus: Angela Hewitt, piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Seascape Op.53

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jonathan Bloxham.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Berlioz: La Damnation De Faust: LSO, Davis.
    • LSO Live.
    • 3.
  • Francesca Caccini

    Romanesca

    Choir: Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini. Conductor: Gian Luca Lastraioli.
    • BRILLIANT.
  • Jean Coulthard

    Bicycle Parade (Excursion)

    Orchestra: Symphony Nova Scotia. Conductor: Georg Tintner.
    • Colonial Diversions: Orchestral Miniatures by Grainger, Lilburn, Benjamin and Co.
    • Naxos.
    • 26.
  • Sarah Kirkland Snider

    Mass for the Endangered: Alleluia

    Choir: Gallicantus. Conductor: Gabriel Crouch.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Robert Farnon

    The Westminster Waltz

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • SONY.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Notturno

    Orchestra: Beethoven Orchestra Bonn. Conductor: Stefan Blunier.
    • Arnold Schoenberg - Orchestral Works.
    • MD&G.
    • 012.
  • George Gershwin

    Prelude No 3

    Performer: Emma Johnson. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Emma Johnson - Encores.
    • ASV.
    • 23.
  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in C sharp minor

    Orchestrator: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.
    • RCA.
  • Claude Debussy

    L'isle joyeuse

    Performer: Jean鈥怋ernard Pommier.
    • Debussy: Piano works: Jean-Bernard Pommier.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 17.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Four Cornish Dances for orchestra (No 1)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Arnold.
    • Malcolm Arnold: English, Irish, Scottish & Cornish Dances: LPO/Arnold.
    • Lyrita.
    • 19.
  • Franz Waxman

    Main Title and Dance Macabre (From "The Bride of Frankenstein")

    Orchestra: Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn.
    • The Bride of Frankenstein.
    • Decca (UMO) (Classics).
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G minor Op.74`3 'Rider' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op.74: Takacs Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.

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