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Boost your morning with classical

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 11 Mar 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Whispered lullaby

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Evelyn Chang.
    • AVIE.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Nocturne in B major Op.40

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in F major, Op 74 No 2 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Hyperion.

  • Leo Brouwer

    Un Dia de noviembre

    Performer: Ricardo Cobo.
    • The Latin American Guitar.
    • NAXOS.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mer Hahn en neue Oberkeet ('Peasant' Cantata BWV212): Dein Wachstum sei feste und lache vor Lust!

    Singer: Robert Holl. Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • TELDEC.

  • Pietro Mascagni

    Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
    • Verismo.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 4.

  • Claude Debussy

    L'Isle joyeuse

    Performer: Seong‐Jin Cho.
    • Debussy.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 17.

  • Evelyn Glennie

    A Little Prayer

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Music Arranger: Robert Childs. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • Virtuoso - Music for Euphonium and Brass Band.
    • Naxos.

  • Arnold Bax

    4 Orchestral Sketches (Dance in the Sun)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Bax: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Amy Beach

    Pastorale Op.151

    Ensemble: Blásarakvintett Reykjavíkur.
    • Barber: Summer Music - Beach: Pastorale and Other American Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 15.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Solveig's Song (Peer Gynt Suite No 2, Op 55)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Berglund.
    • EMI.
    • 9.

  • Jean-Baptiste Barrière

    Sonata For 2 Cellos (3rd mvt)

    Singer: Bobby McFerrin. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.
    • Hush.
    • Sony Masterworks.
    • 9.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue Bird, Op.119 no.3

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • There is sweet music.
    • Collegium.
    • 1.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet antique

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Erato.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Otello (Act 3: Ballet Music)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Libertango

    Music Arranger: Luis Bacalov. Performer: Luis Bacalov. Performer: Héctor Ulises Passarella. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Bacalov: Misa Tango: Domingo, Martinez, Bacalov, Chung.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Paul Smith

    Magnificat

    Choir: VOCES8. Conductor: Paul Smith.
    • Revolutions.
    • Voces8 Records.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A minor for 2 violins RV.523

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • Vivaldi: Double Concertos: Mullova, Carmignola, Marcon.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 16-18.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Decca.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Waltz from Masquerade

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Ballets russes.
    • Parlophone (France).
    • 2.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet no.9 in G minor, D.173 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • BIS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sarabande from Suite No. 4 in E flat major

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in A major, Op 2 No 2 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto no.2 in E flat major K.417

    Performer: Felix Klieser. Orchestra: Camerata Salzburg.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Concerto in 7 parts no.6 in E major

    Ensemble: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • A & D Scarlatti – Concerti & Sinfonie.
    • Virgin.
    • 27.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Chanson à boire (8 Chansons gaillardes)

    Singer: Gérard Souzay.
    • Songs of Poulenc (Remastered 2021).
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 8.

  • Leos Janáček

    The Town Hall, Brno (Sinfonietta)

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Dvorak: Legends, Op. 59 / Janacek: Sinfonietta.
    • BIS.
    • 15.

Broadcast

  • Tue 11 Mar 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3