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

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Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Serenade for Strings in E major, Op 22 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubelík.
    • Rafael Kubelik: Rare Recordings 1963 - 1974.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 9.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell To Stromness

    Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • NAXOS.

  • Arthur Bliss

    2 Studies for Orchestra Op.16 (no.2)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd‐Jones.
    • Bliss – Cello Concerto & Music for Strings.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 100: Mvts 1, 2 and final chorale

    Conductor: Christoph Spering. Orchestra: Das Neue Orchester. Choir: Chorus Musicus Köln.
    • Bach Cantatas.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasy Piece, Op 73 No 1

    Performer: Eduard Brunner. Performer: Robert Levin.
    • ECM.

  • Joan Trimble

    Suite for Strings (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Fionnuala Hunt.
    • Black Box.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 40: Finale

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • UME.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Valse Bohèmienne; Valse Rustique (4 Characteristic Waltzes, Op.22)

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Orchestral Works.
    • NAXOS.
    • 6-7.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending (original version for violin and piano)

    Performer: Jennifer Pike. Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in D major Wq.183`1 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Gustav Leonhardt.
    • CPE Bach: Symphonies: OAE, Leonhardt.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 3.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto in F major HWV.295 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Simon Preston. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Handel: Organ Concertos: Simon Preston.
    • Archiv Produktion.

  • FRIDAY POEM

    "Anti-Winter", written and read by Caleb Femi

  • Edward MacDowell

    Told at Sunset [Woodland Sketches, Op.51]

    Performer: James Barbagallo.
    • MACDOWELL: Woodland Sketches / Fireside Tales / New England Idyls.
    • Naxos.
    • 10.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Thunder and Lightning, Op 324

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • Champagne and Laughter: The Music of Johann Strauss II.
    • EMI.
    • 17.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    Adoro te devote

    Singer: Lucy Sun. Singer: Annabel Green. Singer: Susannah Hill. Singer: Edward Cunningham. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor Op.11 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Elim Chan.
    • Decca.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G major Op.77`1 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Decca.

  • John Adams

    Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Adams: Harmonielehre etc: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Souvenir de Hapsal, Op. 2: No. 3, Chant sans paroles (Arr. Kreisler for Violin a

    Performer: Rodney Friend. Performer: Michael Isador. Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler.
    • Fritz Kreisler - Original Compositions and Arrangements.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 11.

  • John Rutter

    Gloria in excelsis Deo (Gloria)

    Choir: Polyphony. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Ensemble: Wallace Collection. Performer: Andrew Lumsden. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • John Rutter: Gloria: Polyphony/City of London Sinfonia/Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Trio for flute, oboe and piano (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Juliette Bausor. Performer: Daniel Bates. Performer: Simon Lepper.
    • Stone Records.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.2 in D major Op.43 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä.
    • DECCA.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Venezia: 1. Sopra l'acqua indormenzada

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Lyricist: Pietro Pagello. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson.
    • Souvenirs de Venise - Songs of Venice.
    • Helios.
    • 13.

  • 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.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Playful Pizzicato (Simple Symphony)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Britten: The Young Person's Guide etc: LSO/ECO/Britten.
    • Decca.

  • Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Violin Sonata in G Minor, CD 148: I. Allegro vivo

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Debussy: String Quartet & Sonatas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Georges Bizet

    Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre; Toréador, en garde (Carmen)

    Singer: Sherrill Milnes. Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

Broadcast

  • Fri 10 Jan 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3