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

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Wed 28 Aug 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Reverie

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy: Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 18.
  • Ola Gjeilo

    Ubi Caritas

    Choir: VOCES8. Performer: Ola Gjeilo.
    • DECCA.
  • 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

    Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor, BWV 891 (Book 2, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 19.
  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (Arr. for String Orchestra): III. Minuet

    Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: David Garforth.
    • Ireland: A Downland Suite & Other Works - Bridge: Suite for String Orchestra.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Dardanus (Chaconne)

    Orchestra: European Union Baroque Orchestra. Director: Roy Goodman.
    • Rameau: Ballet Suites: European Union Baroque Orchestra/Goodman.
    • Naxos.
    • 24.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major, K412

    Performer: Felix Klieser. Orchestra: Salzburg Camerata.
    • Berlin Classics.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Nulla in mundo pax RV.630

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • 尝鈥橭滨厂贰础鲍-尝驰搁贰.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No.5 in B flat (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Schubert: The Symphonies.
    • BIS.
    • 301.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major, Op 57

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Chandos.
  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un matin de printemps

    Orchestra: 主播大秀 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Boulanger: Faust Et Helene Etc. - Soloists/CBSC/主播大秀 Phil./Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Dance of the Cygnets)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • EMI.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake Op.20 (Act 1 Pas de deux)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • EMI.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Spanish Dance)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker: LSO, Previn.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op.72 No.2

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel 艩ejna.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Florence Price

    String Quartet no.2 in A Minor (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 2: Florence B. Price.
    • Azica Records.
    • 10.
  • Philip Sparke

    Mountain Song

    Ensemble: Gothenburg Symphony Brass Band. Conductor: Bengt Eklund.
    • Versatile Reality.
    • Imogena.
    • 9.
  • George Butterworth

    Is my team ploughing? (A Shropshire Lad)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • DG.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Virgin.
  • Gareth Wood

    Mist of the Afan Forest (Brass Triumphant)

    Performer: Cory Band. Conductor: Robert Childs.
    • Triumphant Brass: Cory Band, Dr Robert Childs.
    • Doyen.
    • 8.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Eternal father, Op 135 No 2

    Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Director: David Hill.
    • Stanford: Sacred Choral Music, Vol. 3: Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hill.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Frederick Delius

    Summer Evening

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.
    • EMI.
  • Paul Dukas

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Offenbach/Saint-Saens/Dukas: Gaite Parisienne etc: Maazel.
    • CBS.
    • 3.
  • Trad.

    She moved through the fair

    Performer: Ann Murray.
    • Ann Murray and Graham Johnson: Last rose of Summer.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird Suite (1910): Infernal Dance

    Orchestra: 主播大秀 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie

    Scottish Concerto Op.55 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: 主播大秀 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • HYPERION.
  • Ivor Gurney

    Severn meadows

    Singer: Benjamin Luxon. Performer: David Willison.
    • Chandos.

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