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Ease into the day 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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Thu 16 Jan 202506:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet in G major, K 387 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Amadeus Quartet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat major, D.899 no.4

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Schubert, Live, Volume 3: Imogen Cooper.
    • Avie.
    • 4.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Ave maris stella

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • A Mother's Love - Music for Mary: The Sixteen/Harry Christophers.
    • UCJ.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D (after Vivaldi), BWV.972

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Colm Carey.
    • Bach: Works For Trumpet.
    • EMI.
    • 1-3.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No.1 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • BR Klassik.

  • Frank Bridge

    Miniatures for violin, cello and piano (Set 1)

    Ensemble: Mithras Trio.

  • Gavin Bryars

    Credo (A Worcester Ladymass)

    Ensemble: Trio Mediæval.
    • ECM.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in C major, no 58, H.16.48 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Haydn: Piano Sonatas Vol. 7.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 15.

  • Léo Delibes

    Coppélia Suite (Prelude; Mazurka)

    Orchestrator: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Famous Ballet Music: Berliner PHilharmoniker, Karajan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Quartet in G major for recorder, oboe, violin and continuo TWV.43:G6

    Ensemble: Musica Alta Ripa.
    • Telemann: Overtures, Sonatas, Concertos: Musica Alta Ripa.
    • MDG.
    • 16.

  • Teresa Carreño

    Intermezzo, Op 34

    Performer: Clara Rodriguez.
    • Teresa Carreno: Clara Rodriguez.
    • Nimbus.
    • 4.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610): Ave Maris Stella

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Singer: Emily Van Evera. Singer: Nigel Rogers. Ensemble: Taverner Consort. Director: Andrew Parrott.
    • EMI.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Corsaire, Op.21

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.
    • SONY.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Sonata in A Major HWV.361, Op.1 No.3

    Performer: Geneva Lewis. Performer: Sam Armstrong.

  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    String Quartet No 2 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Lutosławski Quartet.
    • Bacewicz: Complete String Quartets 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.

  • Franz Schubert

    Ellens Gesang 3 (Ave Maria)

    Performer: Christopher Glynn. Singer: Ailish Tynan.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Flute Concerto No 3 in A major, Wq 168 (1st mvt, Allegro)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • The Flute King: Music from the Court of Frederick the Great: Emmanuel Pahud.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Cello Sonata No 4 in C major, Op 102 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Müller‐Schott. Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Beethoven: Cello Sonata etc: Muller-Schott/Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Graham Fitkin

    Atholl

    Performer: Ruth Wall.
    • UIST.
    • NXN Recordings.
    • 110.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Baba Yaga and The great gate of Kiev (Pictures from an exhibition)

    Music Arranger: Elgar Howarth. Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • Decca.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat major, Op 34 No 1

    Performer: Anna Fedorova.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Hubert Parry

    There is an old belief (Songs of Farewell)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Director: Nigel Short.
    • Hubert Parry: Songs of Farewell: Tenebrae/Nigel Short.
    • Signum Classics.

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    24 Preludes in jazz style Op.53 (no.9)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E major, Op 54 No 3 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Sacconi Quartet.
    • Sacconi Quartet.
    • Sacconi Records.
    • 11.

Broadcast

  • Thu 16 Jan 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3