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Boost your morning with classical

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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3 hours

Last on

Fri 24 May 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Sicilienne (Pelleas & Melisande)

    Orchestra: Paris Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Zehetmair.
    • Mirare.
  • Arthur Bliss

    Pastoral (posth.)

    Performer: Emma Johnson. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Pastoral - British Clarinet Music.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 13.
  • Marin Marais

    Alcione: 2nd suite - Airs pour les eoliens et les eoliennes

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus IV

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • Unchained Melody.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto no.3 in C minor Op.37 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos: Perahia/Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Haitink.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Barrington Pheloung

    Inspector Morse Theme

    Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Barrington Pheloung.
    • Inspector Morse Volume II Original Soundtrack.
    • Virgin Catalogue.
    • 18.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Nocturne from String Quartet No 2 for Violin and Orchestra

    Performer: Stjepan Hauser. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Ziegler.
    • Sony.
  • Louis Vierne

    Sur une tombe (12 Preludes, Op 36)

    Performer: Laurent Wagschal.
    • Calliope.
  • Gustav Holst

    Venus, the Bringer of Peace (The Planets, Op.32)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Holst: The Planets.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.
  • Karl Jenkins

    Ave verum corpus (Stabat Mater)

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Karl Jenkins: Motets.
    • DG.
    • 7.
  • Franz Liszt

    Cavatine de Robert le diable, S 412a

    Performer: Sergio Gallo.
    • Naxos.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar, read by Jordanah Meshe

  • Ottorino Respighi

    La colomba (The Birds)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Marriner.
    • HMV Classics.
    • 14.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Kommt, ihr Tochter (Matthauspassion BWV 244)

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Choir: Staats鈥 und Domchor Berlin. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • J.S. Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (Matth盲us-Passion).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.
  • John Foulds

    Cello Concerto in G major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Yates.
    • Dutton.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sull' aria...Che soave zefiretto (The Marriage of Figaro)

    Singer: Edith Mathis. Singer: Gundula Janowitz. Orchestra: German Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Bohm.
    • SONY.
  • Florence Price

    Piano Quintet in E minor: second movement (Andante)

    Performer: Michelle Cann. Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Azica Records.
  • Georges Bizet

    Jeux d'enfants: Le Bal (Galop)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥 Philharmonie. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Erato.
  • Reginald Spofforth

    Hail! Smiling Morn

    Performer: Delph Band. Conductor: Philip Goodwin.
    • Doyen.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Folk Festival (The Gadfly Suite)

    Music Arranger: Howard Snell. Performer: Brighouse and Rastrick Band. Conductor: David Hirst.
    • Grasmere Westside.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sonata in D major for violin and continuo HWV 371, Op 1 No 13

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Marcin 艢wi膮tkiewicz.
    • Channel.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Infinite Shining Heavens (Songs of Travel)

    Singer: Neal Davies. Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel/Job.
    • 贬补濒濒茅.
    • 6.
  • Maurice Ravel

    叠辞濒茅谤辞

    Orchestra: West鈥揈astern Divan Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Peral.
  • Lili Boulanger

    3 Morceaux

    Performer: Hiroko Ishimoto.
    • Grand Piano.
  • Edward Elgar

    Light out of darkness arr Chambers

    Performer: Andrew Parnell. Choir: St. Albans Cathedral Choir. Director: Barry Rose.
    • A Crown Of Light.
    • Lammas.
    • 1.
  • Peter Phillips

    Pavan and Galliard, 'Phillips Pavin'

    Ensemble: Julian Bream Consort.
    • Fantasies, Ayres and Dances: The Julian Bream Consort.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 2.

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