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Start the day right with classical music

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning. Email your requests to [email protected]

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Wed 11 Dec 202406:30
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Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

    Performer: Iona Brown. Performer: Malcolm Latchem. Performer: Stephen Shingles. Performer: Denis Vigay. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Vaughan Williams: Partita, 3 Vocalises, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Th.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 5.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon a 4 [1608 no.3]

    Ensemble: Berlin Brass.
    • Gabrieli: Music for Brass and Organ.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 07.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Serenity (O magnum mysterium)

    Choir: Phoenix Chorale. Performer: Emmanuel Lopez. Conductor: Charles Bruffy.
    • Gjeilo: Northern Lights.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude, BWV 869 (Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • J. S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 1: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 23.

  • Jules Massenet

    Thaïs (Meditation)

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

  • José Maurício Nunes Garcia

    Hosanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei (Pastoral Mass for Christmas Night)

    Singer: Marc-Olivier Oetterli. Singer: Martina Fausch. Singer: Ricardo Bernal. Ensemble: Ensemble Turicum. Director: Mathias Weibel. Director: Luiz Alves da Silva.
    • K617.

  • Franz Schubert

    2nd mvt (Divertissement on French themes, D.823)

    Performer: Sviatoslav Richter. Performer: Benjamin Britten.
    • DECCA.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah (Pifa / Glory to God)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Handel: Messiah.
    • Linn Records.
    • 14-19.

  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G minor, Z.730

    Ensemble: Musica Alta Ripa.
    • MDG.

  • Trad.

    Sweet Chiming Bells

    Ensemble: Magpie Lane.
    • BANDCAMP.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphony in C minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Grieg: Symphonie / Altnorwegische Romanze U.A..
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Bogoroditsye Dyevo

    Ensemble: The King’s Singers.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.

  • Erik Satie

    Je te veux

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Chandos.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Gaby Casadesus. Performer: Philippe Entremont.
    • Essential Yo-Yo Ma.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Notturno, P 44 No. 3

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Chandos.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Scherzo capriccioso, Op 66

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.
    • TESTAMENT.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Le Noël des Oiseaux

    Singer: Benjamin Appl. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Florian Helgath.
    • The Christmas Album.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 13.

  • William Walton

    Spitfire Prelude and Fugue - concert version

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue: Sinofnia concertante.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Caroline Shaw

    The Children's Eye

    Singer: Ciara Hendrick. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Benjamin Goodson.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Early Morning Bathe (Holiday diary - suite Op.5)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Britten: Piano works.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • 001.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Sailing (Holiday Diary)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Virgin Classics.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 6 in F major, Op 68, 'Pastoral' (4th and 5th mvts)

    Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Günter Wand.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Wand, NDR-Sinfonieorchester.
    • RCA Classics.
    • 8.

  • Traditional Irish

    Sheep under the Snow - Apples in Winter - Little Christmas Reel

    Composer: Traditional Manx. Performer: Susanna Perry Gilmore. Ensemble: Apollo’s Fire. Director: Jeannette Sorrell.
    • Christmas On Sugarloaf Mountain.
    • AVIE.
    • 3.

  • Clara Schumann

    Romance No.1 Andante molto from Three Romances Op.22 for violin and piano

    Performer: Benjamin Nabarro. Performer: Alasdair Beatson.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Les Sylphides (selection)

    Music Arranger: Roy Douglas. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Offenbach: La Gaité parisienne; Chopin: Les Sylphides; Delibes: Coppelia.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Andrew Carter

    Mary's Magnificat

    Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Director: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • SIGNUM RECORDS.

Broadcast

  • Wed 11 Dec 202406:30
    BBC Radio 3