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Perk up your morning with classical music

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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Fri 29 Nov 202406:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    The Arts and the Hours

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Music Arranger: Michael Lewin.
    • The Arts and the Hours (Arr. for Guitar by Michael Lewin).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quintet in E flat major Op.44 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Dora Schwarzberg. Performer: Lucia Hall. Performer: Nobuko Imai. Performer: Mischa Maisky.
    • Schumann: Chamber Works: Martha Argerich.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O felix anima

    Choir: Anonymous 4.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G major, BWV 1049 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Beckett. Performer: Marion Scott. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Catherine Mackintosh.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in G flat major, D 899 No 3

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Schubert: Impromptus, Op. 90 & 142; Murray Perahia.
    • CBS.
    • 3.

  • Maya Youssef

    Lullaby A Promise of a Rainbow

    Performer: Maya Youssef. Ensemble: Orchestra of Opera North.
    • Seven Gates.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Let beauty awake (Songs of Travel)

    Singer: Christopher Maltman. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • Imogen Holst

    On Westhall Hill

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Alice Farnham.
    • Discovering Imogen.
    • NMC.
    • 10.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 III Menuetto

    Performer: Nicola Jürgensen-Jacobsen. Ensemble: Klenke Quartett.
    • Accentus Music.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Four English Dances, Set 1, Op 27 (No 4)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Malcolm Arnold: Dances: Philharmonia, Thomson.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne (Op.posth) in C sharp minor, arr. for violin & piano [orig. for pf]

    Performer: Emanuel Vardi. Performer: Norman Carey.
    • The Legendary Violist Emanuel Vardi: The Virtuoso Viola.
    • Cembal d'amour CD 134.

  • Geoffrey Burgon

    Aslan's Theme from The Chronicles of Narnia (BBC TV Series)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Burgon.
    • Silva Screen.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83: II. Allegro appassionato

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Handel Variations.
    • Ondine.
    • 102.

  • Oscar Rasbach

    Trees

    Singer: Benjamin Luxon. Performer: David Willison.
    • Decca.

  • FRIDAY POEM

    "Sonnet 23: Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint" by John Milton, read by Alun Raglan

  • John Blow

    Ground in G Minor

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • The Muses Restor'd.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 3.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no.8 in G major Op.88 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • Dvorak: Complete Symphonies and Concertos.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Claude Debussy

    En blanc et noir

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Performer: Thomas Adès.
    • Myrios.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Girls' Dance; Intermezzo (Aleko)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2 etc..
    • EMI.
    • 1-2.

  • Gustav Holst

    Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (The Planets Op.32) arr. for brass

    Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
    • British Brass.
    • BMG Entertainment.
    • 1.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Bella figlia dell'amore (Rigoletto)

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Singer: Huguette Tourangeau. Singer: Joan Sutherland. Singer: Sherrill Milnes. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Verdi: Rigoletto.
    • Decca.
    • 11.

  • Jānis Ivanovs

    Symphony No. 3: I. Adagio - Allegro moderato

    Orchestra: Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitry Yablonsky.
    • Marco-Polo.

  • Marisa Robles

    Narnia Suite: Themes for The Dawn Treader; Reepicheep; Eustace; The Dufflepuds

    Performer: Marisa Robles.
    • Decca.

  • Paul Dukas

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.

  • Billy Strayhorn

    Take the "A" Train

    Performer: Duke Ellington Orchestra.
    • Duke Ellington: The Blanton-Webster Band.
    • Bluebird.
    • 10.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont Overture

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Russell Pascoe

    Magnificat (Truro Service)

    Choir: Truro Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
    • REGENT.

  • Alexandre Desplat

    Little Women

    • Little Women (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Fri 29 Nov 202406:30
    BBC Radio 3