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Boost your morning with classical

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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Music Played

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.1 in D major (Blumine)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 1 / Blumine.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Concerto in 7 parts no.6 in E major

    Ensemble: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • A & D Scarlatti: Concerti & Sinfonie.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 27-30.
  • Alba Rosa ViĂ«tor

    Canzonetta

    Ensemble: Storioni Trio.
    • Ars Produktion.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Solo cello suite no.2 in D minor BWV.1008 (Prelude & Allemande)

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras.
    • J.S. Bach: Complete Cello Suites (The 2023 Sessions).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 8.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto no.2 in F major Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Dmitri Maximovich Shostakovich. Orchestra: I Musici de Montréal. Conductor: Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich.
    • Shostakovich: Piano concerto no. 2: I Musici de MontrĂ©al.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Matthew Harris

    O mistress mine (Shakespeare Songs)

    Choir: Phoenix Bach Choir. Conductor: Charles Bruffy.
    • Chandos.
  • Bernard Herrmann

    Suite from "Wuthering Heights" - Act 1 Nocturne

    Music Arranger: Hans Emil SĂžrensen. Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Venzago.
    • Herrmann: Suite from Wuthering Heights, Echoes for Strings.
    • Chandos.
    • 106.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Indes Galantes - suite (Prologue)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans BrĂŒggen.
    • Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Suite etc.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in B flat major D.898 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • Schubert Piano Trios 1&2.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.39 in E flat major K.543 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart: Symphonies nos. 39 & 40: Orchestra Mozart/Abbado.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 4.
  • Bohuslav MartinĆŻ

    Trio in F major for flute, cello & piano (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: The Dartington Ensemble.
    • MartinĆŻ: La revue de cuisine; Madrigals & Other Chamber Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 18.
  • Ferdinand HĂ©rold

    Consternation et pardon (La fille mal gardée)

    Music Arranger: John Lanchbery. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Lanchbery.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 23.
  • Friday Poem

    • "Lines composed in a wood on a windy day" by Anne BrontĂ«, read by Elizabeth Bell.

  • Malcolm Sargent

    An Impression on a Windy Day

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Brian Kay's British Light Music Discoveries.
    • ASV.
    • 9.
  • Jerome Moross

    The Big Country - main theme

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Kunzel.
    • Round-Up.
    • Telarc.
    • 9.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in A flat Op.110 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • CĂ©cile Chaminade

    Callirhoé (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Metz. Conductor: David Reiland.
    • Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Quartet in G minor Op.25 (4th mvt)

    Orchestrator: Arnold Schoenberg. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Brahms - arr. Schoenberg, arr. Berio.
    • Cala.
    • 4.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante defunte

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Monteux.
    • Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe.
    • Decca.
    • 17.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Quartet in G Minor Op.20 No.3; 1st mvt

    Ensemble: Castalian String Quartet.
  • Claude Debussy

    Les ingĂ©nues (FĂȘtes galantes, Vol 2)

    Performer: Dalton Baldwin. Singer: GĂ©rard Souzay.
    • Debussy: Melodies, Lieder: Souzay, Baldwin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Tan Dun

    Eight Memories in Watercolour, Op.1 (Staccato Beans / Herdboy's Song)

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Lang Lang - Live at Carnegie Hall.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 11.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (Ma Vlast)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Rafael KubelĂ­k.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Voi che sapete (The Marriage of Figaro)

    Singer: Ginger Costa-Jackson. Orchestra: Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House. Conductor: Julia Jones.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    String quartet no.8 in C minor Op.110 (5th mvt)

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 7, 8 & 9.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 8.
  • Anna Amalia of Brunswick-WolfenbĂŒttel

    Erwin und Elmire (Entre acte)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Weimar. Conductor: Peter GĂŒlke.
    • CAPRICCIO.
  • BronisƂaw Kaper

    Mutiny on the Bounty (Main Title / Portsmouth Harbour)

    Orchestra: MGM Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Armbruster.
    • Mutiny on the Bounty (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • At the Movies, Inc..
    • 2.
  • FrĂ©dĂ©ric Chopin

    12 Studies Op.25 (no.3 in F major)

    Performer: Beatrice Rana.
    • Warner.

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