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Wake up 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]. To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Breakfast.”

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Tue 25 Feb 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat major Op.33`2 'Joke' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Stabat Mater

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • GIMELL.

  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Milos Karadaglic: Aranjuez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.

  • Léo Delibes

    Pizzicato (Sylvia)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • New Year's Concert 2014.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No 5 in A major, K 219 (1st mvt)

    Performer: David Oistrakh. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Director: David Oistrakh.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.

  • Vladimir Valivov

    Ave Maria

    Composer: Giulio Caccini. Music Arranger: Karel Mark Chichon. Singer: Elīna Garanča. Orchestra: German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Karel Mark Chichon.
    • Meditation.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 14.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 30 in E, Op. 109: 1. Vivace, ma non troppo - Adagio

    Performer: Myra Hess.
    • Great Pianists of the 20th Century Vol.45 - Myra Hess.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 14.

  • George Gershwin

    Walking the Dog (Shall we Dance)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Performer: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Gershwin: The 1920s & 1930s: Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS Masterworks.
    • 8.

  • Laura Jurd

    The Lady of Bruntál

    Performer: Laura Jurd. Ensemble: Laura Jurd Jazz Quartet. Ensemble: Ligeti Quartet.
    • Landing Ground.
    • Chaos Collective.
    • 03.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hear my prayer; O for the wings of a dove

    Singer: Rachel Bennett. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Performer: Mark Williams. Conductor: Richard Marlow.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Serenade in D (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Odaline de la Martínez.
    • Chandos.

  • Jeremiah Clarke

    Trumpet voluntary (The Prince of Denmark's March)

    Performer: Peter Hurford. Music Arranger: Peter Hurford. Ensemble: Michael Laird Brass Ensemble.
    • Trumpet Voluntary.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 - III. Rondo (Allegro scherzando)

    Performer: Louis Schwizgebel. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thierry Fischer.
    • APARTE.

  • Arvo Pärt

    Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

    Orchestra: Staatsorchester Stuttgart. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
    • Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa.
    • ECM.
    • 2.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Four Cornish Dances for orchestra (No 1)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Arnold.
    • Malcolm Arnold: English, Irish, Scottish & Cornish Dances: LPO/Arnold.
    • Lyrita.
    • 19.

  • Henry Purcell

    Strike the viol (from Come, ye sons of art away)

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Singer: Raquel Andueza. Orchestra: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Music for a While - Improvisations on Purcell.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 103.

  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune

    Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Thomas Arne

    Artaxerxes - No. 2, Air: 'Adieu, thou lovely youth'

    Singer: Elizabeth Watts. Orchestra: Classical Opera Company. Conductor: Ian Page.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Elfrida Andrée

    Symphony No 2 in A minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Stockholm Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustaf Sjökvist.
    • Sterling.

  • John Ireland

    Spring Sorrow (arr. cello and piano)

    Music Arranger: Julian Lloyd Webber. Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Performer: John Lenehan.
    • Delius & Ireland: Evening Songs.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 23, K.488 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.
    • Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22, K. 482 & No.23, K. 488.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Isaac Hirshow

    Shlof Mayn Kind [Sleep My Child]

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Paul Brough.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto à 5 in F major, Op 9 No 10

    Performer: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Decca.

  • Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Valse romantique, CD 79

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Debussy: Early and Late Piano Pieces.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    España

    Orchestra: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. Conductor: Michel Plasson.
    • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Tue 25 Feb 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3