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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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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    En Bateau (Petite Suite)

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Hyperion.
  • Ola Gjeilo

    Northern Lights

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.
  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 3 No. 1 (2nd mvt, Adagio)

    Performer: Linda Melsted. Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.
    • TAFELMUSIK.
  • Katia Beaugeais

    Like Snowdrops You Will Shine

    Performer: Helena Rathbone. Ensemble: ACO Collective.
    • Collective Wisdom [Hush, Volume 18].
    • 8.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ Sonata no.4 BWV.528 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Bach for the 主播大秀.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 179.
  • Ronald Binge

    Elizabethan Serenade

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • Elizabethan Serenade.
    • Naxos.
    • 15.
  • Edith Swepstone

    Une Larme

    Performer: John Bradbury. Performer: Ian Buckle.
    • From the Airwaves.
    • MPR.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets, Op.32; Neptune, the Mystic

    Choir: 主播大秀 Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: 主播大秀 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Holst: The Planets Op.32; Egdon Heath Op.47.
    • TELDEC.
    • 7.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in A major, Op 101 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Beethoven, The Late Piano Sonatas Nos. 28-32: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Choir: Laudibus. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Eric Whitacre, Light & Gold.
    • Decca.
    • 16.
  • Louis Spohr

    Nonet in F major, Op 31 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Spohr: Nonet and Octet: Nash Ensemble.
    • CRD.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Sonata No 1 in D minor Op. 28 (II. Lento)

    Performer: Jaeden Izik-Dzurko.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.3 in D major, D.200 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos 3 & 8 "Unfinished": Wiener Phil, Kleiber.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Fela Sowande

    Joyful Day (African Suite)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • SONY.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction and Allegro in G flat major

    Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Soloists.
    • 滨苍诲茅厂别苍蝉.
  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Swedish Rhapsody no.1 'Midsummer Vigil'

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Warner.
  • Franz Danzi

    Quintet in G minor, Op 56 No 2 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bl盲serquintett Berlin.
    • Danzi: Wind Quintets, Op.56 Nos.1-3; Piano Quintet, Op.41.
    • BIS.
    • 5.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1: II. Adagio (Live)

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: recreation 鈥 Grosses Orchester Graz. Conductor: Michael Hofstetter.
    • Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1-2 & Symphony No. 13 in D Major, Hob. I:13 (Live).
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 5.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite (Alla marcia)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia/Luonnota U.A. : Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Jarvi.
    • DG.
    • 3.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Deep river (24 Folk melodies Op.59)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Summertime.
    • Decca.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Trumpet Concerto in D Major, TWV 51:D7 [complete]

    Performer: Niklas Eklund. Ensemble: Drottningholms Barockensemble. Conductor: Nils鈥怑rik Sparf.
    • Baroque Trumpet (The Art Of The), Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 1-4.
  • Alexandre Desplat

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Florentino Calvo. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Alexandre Desplat.
    • Airlines.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio no.1 in D minor Op.49 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Itzhak Perlman.
    • Mendelssohn: Piano Trios, Opp. 49 & 66: Perlman : Ma : Ax.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

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