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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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Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Violin Sonata no.3 in C minor Op.45 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Franck, Grieg, Dvorak: Sonatas for violin & piano.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • John Taverner

    Missa Corona Spinea - Sanctus

    Composer: Tallis Scholars. Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Gimmel.

  • Robert Schumann

    Violin Concerto in D minor (2nd movement)

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • For the Love of Brahms.
    • Sony.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe (Cantata no.34)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Choruses - Gardiner.
    • SDG.
    • 1.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Piano Concerto in C sharp minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Poulenc: Piano Concerto, Organ Concerto & Stabat Mater.
    • LPO.
    • 2.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nicanor Zabaleta. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • DG.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet no. 2 in D major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Borodin Quartet.
    • Borodin: String Quartets Nos. 1&2: Borodin Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Marche des mousquetaires du roy

    Ensemble: Ensemble de Trompettes de Cavalerie de Paris. Conductor: Pierre Bréard. Ensemble: Trompes de chasse du Rallye-Louvarts de Paris. Ensemble: Ensembles d'instruments a vent et de tambours. Conductor: Jean‐François Paillard.
    • Music at the Court of Versailles: Charpentier/Delalande/Lully/Rameau.
    • Erato.
    • 26.

  • Max Bruch

    Kol nidrei

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • Hyperion.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Os Justi

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    La Poule (Concert en sextuor no.6 in G minor)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Rameau: Une Symphonie Imaginaire: Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski.
    • Archiv.
    • 11.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93 - IV. Allegro vivace

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Polonaise in A flat major Op.53 'Eroica'

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Chopin: Polonaises: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Fairy Godmother and Fairy Winter (Cinderella Suite no1)

    Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov. Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Prokofiev: Excerpts from Cinderella and Romeo & Juliet.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 104.

  • Marianna Martines

    Harpsichord Concerto in E major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Nicoleta Paraschivescu. Ensemble: La Floridiana.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus, D. 899, Op. 90: No. 2 in E-Flat Major

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • SONY.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Orchestra: Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 103.

  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Rhapsody in C major, Op.11 no.3

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's Dream Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.

  • Francesco Scarlatti

    Sinfonia & Chorus 'Alle straggi alle vendette' from Il Daniele nel Lago de'Leon

    Ensemble: Armonico Consort. Conductor: Christopher Monks.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Night Club, 1960 (Histoire du Tango)

    Performer: Emmanuel Rossfelder. Performer: Victor Hugo Villena.
    • Carnets de voyage.
    • Mirare.
    • 112.

  • Gustav Holst

    Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity (The Planets)

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • HELIOS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Archduke Piano Trio Op.97 (2nd mvmt)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • Sony.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Romance of the Prairie Lilies, Op.39

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, orchestral works.
    • MARCO POLO.
    • 14.

  • William Byrd

    This Sweet and Merry Month of May

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Byrd: Psalmes, Songs and Sonnets (1611).
    • CORO.
    • 9.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in F minor Op.55 no.1

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Tue 7 Jan 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3