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Boost your morning with classical

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with the Friday poem and music that captures the mood of the morning.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

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Fri 8 Sep 202306:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Humming Chorus (Madam Butterfly)

    Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Puccini: Great Opera Arias.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.17 in G Major, K.453 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos.
    • Chandos.
    • 005.

  • Traditional Catalan

    Song of the Birds

    Music Arranger: Pau Casals. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Ensemble: Cellos of the City of Birmingham Orchestra.
    • DECCA.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade no.2 in A major, Op.16 (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • LSO Live.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No 3 in E major for violin, BWV 1006: i. Prelude

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova.
    • Hyperion.

  • John Barry

    Out of Africa (Main Title)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: John Barry.
    • MCA Records.

  • Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

    Mother's Love

    Performer: Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou.
    • Buda Musique.

  • Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco

    Concerto à più istrumenti in E minor, Op 5 No 3

    Ensemble: Concerto Köln.
    • WARNER.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in B flat minor, op. 9 no. 1

    Performer: Ivan Moravec.
    • Chopin: Nocturnes - Complete.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 1.

  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the Shore

    Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Grainger: Works for Wind Orchestra Vol.4: Royal Northern College of Music Wind O.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in A minor, Op.132 (5th mvt)

    Ensemble: Castalian String Quartet.
    • Between Two Worlds.
    • Delphian.

  • Alun Hoddinott

    Welsh Dances Suite No 1, Op 15

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • Lyrita.

  • Trad.

    Now The Green Blade Riseth

    Performer: Michael Smith. Music Arranger: Martin Shaw. Choir: Salisbury Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Richard Seal.
    • The Glory of Salisbury Cathedral.
    • Heritage Records.
    • 2.

  • FRIDAY POEM

    'Going Downhill on a Bicycle' by Henry Charles Beeching, Read by David Collins

  • Jean Coulthard

    Bicycle Parade (Excursion)

    Orchestra: Symphony Nova Scotia. Conductor: Georg Tintner.
    • Colonial Diversions: Orchestral Miniatures by Grainger, Lilburn, Benjamin and Co.
    • Naxos.
    • 26.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Corsaire, Op.21

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.
    • SONY.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Passcaglia of the Street Singers [Night music of the streets of Madrid]

    Performer: Richard Tognetti. Performer: Bruce Dukov. Performer: Simon Oswell. Performer: Steve Erdody. Performer: Timothy Landauer. Music Arranger: Iva Davies. Music Arranger: Christopher Gordon. Music Arranger: Richard Tognetti.
    • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Music from the Motion Picture).
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 14.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • Conifer.

  • CASSETTE-SEPTEMBER MOMENT

    • Maurice Ravel

      Piano Concerto: 1st mvt

      Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
      • DG.

  • Paul Dukas

    Fanfare to precede La Péri

    Ensemble: Wells Cathedral School Brass Ensemble. Director: Ross Brown.

  • Eric Coates

    Youth of Britain [The Princess Elizabeth] (The Three Elizabeths)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Reginald Kilbey.
    • Classics for Pleasure.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in B minor, Op.32 No.10

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • DG.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Times Square, 1944 (3 Dance Episodes from 'On the Town')

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Bernstein: Marin Alsop's Complete Naxos Recordings.
    • Naxos.
    • 603.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 101 in D Major, "Clock": IV. Finale (Vivace)

    Orchestra: Heidelberger Sinfoniker. Conductor: Thomas Fey.
    • Haydn: London Symphonies.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 404.

Broadcast

  • Fri 8 Sep 202306:30
    BBC Radio 3