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Your classical alarm call

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

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Tue 20 Aug 202406:30
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Music Played

  • William Lloyd Webber

    Serenade for Strings

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Lloyd Webber: Invocation.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Isaac Albéniz

    Torre Bermeja (12 Piezas Caracteristicas)

    Music Arranger: Ginevra Bruno. Performer: Catrin Finch.
    • The Harpist: Catrin Finch.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Andante in F Major, WoO 57 "Andante favori"

    Performer: Boris Giltburg.
    • Andante in F Major, WoO 57 "Andante favori".
    • Naxos.
    • 101.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Der Herr segne euch (Cantata: Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196)

    Conductor: Ton Koopman. Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Singer: Matthijs Mesdag. Singer: Joost van der Linden.
    • J.S. Bach: Cantatas Vol. 1.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 25.

  • Jean Sibelius

    The Swan of Tuonela (Leminkainen Suite, Op 22)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto in G Major, K. 453 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alon Goldstein. Performer: Alexander Bickard. Music Arranger: Ignaz Lachner. Ensemble: Fine Arts Quartet.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 17 (Arr. I. Lachner for Piano & String Quintet).
    • Naxos.
    • 203.

  • Trad.

    Bushes and Briars

    Music Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Director: Paul McCreesh.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Louis Spohr

    Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 26 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Antony Pay. Conductor: David Atherton. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta.
    • Spohr: Clarinet Concertos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Air and variations, 'The Harmonious Blacksmith' (Suite in E major, HWV 430)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony.

  • Edward MacDowell

    Forest Spirits (Suite no.1 in A minor)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Takuo Yuasa.
    • Naxos.

  • Manuel Ponce

    Estrellita [Little star]

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Vag Papian. Music Arranger: Mikhail Parhamovsky. Ensemble: Virtuosi.
    • Vengerov and Virtuosi.
    • EMI.
    • 2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo)

    Lyricist: Giacomo Rossi. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen. Ensemble: Les Violons du Roy.
    • ARC.
    • UMC - Decca Gold.
    • 5.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quintet No.1 in A major, Op.18 (3rd mvt: Scherzo)

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Ernesto Lecuona

    Crisantemo

    Performer: Thomas Tirino.
    • BIS.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Die Fledermaus (Overture)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • SONY.

  • Dora Pejačević

    Impromptu, Op 9

    Performer: Oliver Triendl. Ensemble: Quatuor Sine Nomine.
    • CPO.

  • Frederic Bayco

    Elizabethan Masque

    Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: George Weldon.
    • British Light Music: Coates/Dunn/Kilbey/Weldon.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.

  • Ida Moberg

    'Prelude' or 'Activity' (Sunrise Suite)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Gustavsson.
    • Aulin, Moberg, Andrée: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos Sweden - Nilento.
    • 6.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in E minor, Op 59 No 2, 'Razumovsky' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Pražák Quartet.
    • Praga Digitals.

  • Samuel Barber

    Adagio for Strings

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Barber: Adagio, Academy of St Martin-In-The-Fields.
    • ARGO.
    • 1.

  • John Sheppard

    Salvator mundi

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • HYPERION.

  • Edwin York Bowen

    Three Serious Dances, Op 51 (No 2)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.

  • George Gershwin

    Funny Face (Overture)

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Stephen Brooker.
    • BBC Concert Orchestra.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 39 in E-Flat Major, K. 543: IV. Finale Allegro

    Ensemble: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41 "Jupiter".
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 104.

  • William Byrd

    Ave verum Corpus

    Ensemble: The Gesualdo Six. Conductor: Owain Park.
    • Hyperion.

  • Valborg Aulin

    Valse elegiaque

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • Neglected Works For Piano.
    • db Productions.
    • 10.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in G major TWV.52:G3

    Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Sabine Fehlandt. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Adolphus Hailstork

    Kum ba yah (3 Spirituals)

    Orchestra: Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Naxos.

Broadcast

  • Tue 20 Aug 202406:30
    BBC Radio 3