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Ease into the day with classical music

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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Fri 30 Aug 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    Rosamunde (Entr'acte no.3 in B flat major)

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Concerto no. 2 in C minor Op.18 for piano and orchestra - slow movement

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili. Performer: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Sony.
  • Kerensa Briggs

    Media Vita

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Viola da Gamba Sonata No. 3 in G Minor; I. Vivace

    Performer: Mischa Maisky. Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Bach, J.S.: Cello Sonatas BWV 1027-1029.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 9.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.59 in A major H.1.59 'Fire' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 13: Horn Signal.
    • ALPHA.
    • 05.
  • Paul Reade

    The Victorian kitchen garden - suite for clarinet and harp

    Performer: Emma Johnson. Performer: Skaila Kanga.
    • Emma Johnson - Encores.
    • ASV.
    • 1.
  • Haydn Wood

    Violin Concerto in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: 主播大秀 Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.
  • George Botsford

    Black and White Rag

    Performer: Piers Lane. Music Arranger: Winifred Atwell.
    • Piers Lane Goes To Town Again.
    • HYPERION.
    • 31.
  • George Frideric Handel

    All we, like sheep, have gone astray (Messiah)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Handel: Messiah: Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
    • Philips.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op.16c (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Isaac Stern. Performer: Jaime Laredo. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.
    • Sony.
  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Canario (Fantas铆a para un gentilhombre)

    Performer: Craig Ogden. Orchestra: 主播大秀 Philharmonic. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, Fantasia para un gentilhombre & Concierto pa.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Richard Rodgers

    Bewitched

    Performer: Oscar Peterson. Performer: Ray Brown. Performer: Ed Thigpen.
    • Oscar Peterson Plays Richard Rodgers.
    • Solar Records.
    • 3.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    "Towards the End of Summer" by Jenny Joseph, read by Phyllida Nash

  • Paul Patterson

    Tarantula (Spiders Op.48)

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto no.2 in E flat major, K.417 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alessio Allegrini. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos: Allegrini/Orchestra Mozart/Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Sarabande and rigaudon, Op 93

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Jun M盲rkl.
    • Saint-Saens: Symphonic Poems.
    • NAXOS.
    • 5-6.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet no.5 in E flat major Op.44 no.3 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: New Zealand Quartet.
    • String Quartets 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Petite Messe Solennelle (Kyrie)

    Choir: Nederlands Kamerkoor. Performer: Leo van Doeselaar. Performer: Wyneke Jordans. Director: Jos van Immerseel.
    • Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle.
    • ACCENT.
    • 1-3.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite, Op.40 (Praeludium)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Grieg: Complete music with orchestra: Gothenburg SO/Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Easter Sonata: IV. Allegro con strepito

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Mendelssohn.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 13.
  • Scott Joplin

    Eugenia arr Averay for wind trio

    Performer: Anthony Averay. Performer: Lorne G Buick. Performer: Hamish Gordon. Music Arranger: Anthony Averay. Ensemble: Vancouver Wind Trio.
    • Celebrated Classics: The Vancouver Wind Trio.
    • Sonrise Audio.
    • 16.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Venezia: 4. La biondina in gondoleta

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Lyricist: Antonio Lamberti. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson.
    • Souvenirs de Venise - Songs of Venice.
    • Helios.
    • 16.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake, Op 20 (Act 1 Waltz)

    Orchestra: State Academic Symphony Orchestra of The Russian Federation. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 22, TH 12 (1877 Version).
    • PENTATONE.
    • 202.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op 15 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Domus.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major, BWV 1068 (Gavotte 1 and 2)

    Ensemble: La Petite Bande. Director: Sigiswald Kuijken.
    • Bach - The Orchestral Suites.
    • ACCENT.
    • 10.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)

    Singer: Maria Callas. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Tullio Serafin.
    • EMI.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Die Rheinnixen: Overture

    Orchestra: The Gulbenkian Orchestra. Conductor: Michel Swierczewski.
    • NIMBUS.

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