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Classical music to brighten your morning

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

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3 hours

Music Played

  • Arnold Bax

    Quintet for oboe and String - 1st mvt - Tempo molto moderato

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Chandos.
  • Antoine Brumel

    Sub tuum praesidium

    Choir: The Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.
    • Queen of Hearts: Laments and Songs of Regret for Queens Terrestrial and Celestia.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat major D.899 no.4

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam (Cantata BWV.7)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Ombra mai fu (Serse)

    Singer: Valer Barna-Sabadus. Performer: Doron David Sherwin. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Erato.
  • Eric Coates

    From meadow to Mayfair - suite - I - A song by the way (romance)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Franz Danzi

    Sinfonia concertante in B-Flat Major, Op. 41: III. Polonaise (Allegretto)

    Performer: Paul Meyer. Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Ensemble: Les Vents Français. Orchestra: Münchener Kammerorchester. Conductor: Daniel Giglberger.
    • Concertante!.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 28.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34

    Performer: Ophélie Gaillard. Ensemble: Members of the Sirba Octet.
    • Exiles.
    • 貹é.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • TELARC DIGITAL.
  • Léo Delibes

    Coppélia Waltz arr Dohnanyi

    Performer: Martin Roscoe. Music Arranger: Erno Dohnanyi.
    • Dohnanyi: Piano Music: Martin Roscoe.
    • Hyperion.
  • Yann Tiersen

    Comptine d'un autre été (l'après midi)

    Music Arranger: Sérgio Assad. Performer: Plínio Fernandes.
    • Decca.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Ave Maria (Bogoroditse Djevo) from Vespers, Op 37

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca.
    • 10.
  • Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

    Procession of the Sardar (Caucasian Sketches Suite no.1)

    Orchestra: The Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sascha Goetzel.
    • Scheherazade etc..
    • ONYX.
    • 9.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    Future Work, written and read by Fleur Adcock

  • Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

    Caucasian sketches - suite no. 1 Op.10 – No. 4 Procession of the Sardar

    Orchestra: The Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sascha Goetzel.
    • Onyx.
    • ONYX4124.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony no. 4 (Op. 98) in E minor; 3rd movement; Allegro giocoso

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    La danza from Les soirées musicales (Voice)

    Singer: Carlo Bergonzi. Performer: John Wustman.
    • Carlo Bergonzi - Italian Songs.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E flat major RV.253, Op.8 No.5 (La Tempesta di mare)

    Performer: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor, Op 2 - 2nd mvt: Andante con moto

    Ensemble: Chineke! Orchestra.
    • Decca.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Va, pensiero (from Nabucco)

    Choir: Chorus of Welsh National Opera. Orchestra: Orchestra of Welsh National Opera. Conductor: Richard Armstrong.
    • Warner.
  • Édouard Lalo

    Rapsodie Norvégienne: Presto

    Music Arranger: Keith Wilkinson. Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • French Bonbons.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Jan Ladislav Dussek

    Messe Solemnelle - First Kyrie

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Choir: Academy of Ancient Music Chorus. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • AAM Records.
  • Jean Françaix

    Octet (Scherzo)

    Ensemble: Charis-Ensemble.
    • Jean Francaix: Kammermusik: Charis-Ensemble.
    • MD&G.
    • 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 7, Allegretto

    Orchestra: West–Eastern Divan Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Beethoven for All.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Henry Purcell

    Strike the Viol (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary)

    Singer: Tim Mead. Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien. Director: François Lazarevitch.
    • ALPHA.
  • Augusta Holmès

    Night and Love (Ludus pro Patria)

    Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland‐Pfalz. Conductor: Patrick Davin.
    • Augusta Holmes - Orchestral Works.
    • MARCO POLO.
    • 004.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Piano Sonata No. 2 in A-Flat Major, Op. 39: III. Menuetto capriccioso. Presto assai

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Weber & Schubert: Sonatas.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 95 in C minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 12.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Tosca: E lucevan le stele

    Singer: Carlo Bergonzi. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni.
    • Regis.

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