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Wake up with classical music

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

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Wed 9 Oct 202406:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gustav Holst

    Brook Green Suite

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Conductor: Norman Del Mar.
    • Holst: The Collectors Edition.
    • EMI Classics.

  • 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.

  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Heyr þú oss himnum á [Hear us in the heavens]

    Choir: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis. Conductor: Hörður Áskelsson.
    • Meditatio: Music for Mixed Choir.
    • BIS.
    • 10.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor, BWV 873 (Book 2, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Jules Massenet

    Thaïs (Meditation)

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Poème.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Quintet, Op.34 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Richard Hosford. Ensemble: The Gaudier Ensemble.
    • Weber: Clarinet Quintet/Piano Quartet/Trio: The Gaudier Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.

  • George Gershwin

    Lullaby

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.

  • Helena Munktell

    Suite for Large Orchestra (Finale)

    Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Tobias Ringborg.
    • Sterling.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Orchestra: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. Conductor: Michel Plasson.
    • EMI.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Cello Sonata in F major Op.5 no.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Inon Barnatan.
    • Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1-5.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 102.

  • Erik Satie

    Je te veux

    Singer: Juliette. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Tambourin Chinois

    Performer: Geneva Lewis. Performer: Ryan Corbett.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music Suite no. 2 in D major (Allegro and alla hornpipe)

    Ensemble: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Richard Wagner

    The Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre)

    Conductor: Klaus Tennstedt. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Tennstedt conducts Wagner - Music from the Ring.
    • EMI.

  • Caroline Shaw

    And the swallow

    Conductor: Paul Hillier. Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen.
    • ...and....
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Clara Schumann

    Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann (No.7)

    Performer: Mishka Rushdie Momen.
    • SOMM.

  • Édouard Lalo

    Cello Concerto in D minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Arto Noras. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka‐Pekka Saraste.
    • Cello Concertos.
    • Finlandia.
    • 5.

  • Joseph Haydn

    The heavens are telling (The Creation)

    Singer: Sarah Tynan. Singer: Jeremy Ovenden. Singer: Matthew Brook. Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Thunder and Lightning Polka

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Orchestra Fireworks.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • Dolores White

    Las Tarantulas

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Julian Riem.
    • Sony.

  • Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert

    Brocéliande (Overture)

    Orchestrator: Richard Rosenberg. Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Rosenberg.
    • NAXOS.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Chanson du Pêcheur

    Performer: Mishka Rushdie Momen. Singer: Ian Bostridge.

  • Frank Bridge

    3 Idylls (no.3)

    Ensemble: Piatti Quartet.
    • Champs Hill.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Firebird Suite: The Princesses' Round Dance; Infernal Dance

    Conductor: Iván Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra.
    • Stravinsky: Rite of Spring, Firebird Suite, Scherzo, Tango.
    • Channel Classics Records.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 21 (K.467) in C major, 2nd mvt; Andante

    Performer: Dejan Lazić. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend.
    • Challenge Classics.

  • Nicolas Vallet

    Est-ce Mars et Courante de Mars

    Ensemble: thélème. Director: Jean-Christophe Groffe.
    • COVIELLO.

  • Alan Hovhaness

    Symphony No.2 'Mysterious Mountain' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • RCA LIVING STEREO.

  • Hubert Parry

    Songs of farewell for mixed voices, no.1; My soul, there is a country

    Choir: Liverpool Cathedral Choir. Director: David Poultner.
    • PRIORY.

Broadcast

  • Wed 9 Oct 202406:30
    BBC Radio 3