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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 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. To listen on most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Breakfast.”

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Wed 2 Apr 202506:30
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Music Played

  • Andrea Rota

    Emendemus in melius

    Lyricist: Book of Common Prayer. Choir: Bevan Family Consort. Director: Graham Ross.
    • Attende Domine: Music for Lent & Passiontide.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 104.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 100, D. 929: III. Scherzando. Allegro mode

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff. Performer: Lars Vogt.
    • Schubert: Chamber Works.
    • Ondine.
    • 203.

  • George Butterworth

    2 English Idylls

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle: English Rhapsody.
    • Halle.
    • 2-3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto no.4 in A major BWV.1055 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Steven Devine. Ensemble: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • Resonus Classics.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, H VIIe 1 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Maurice André. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jesús López Cobos.
    • Haydn/Telemann/Albinoni: Trumpet Concertos: Andre/LPO/Lopez-Cobos.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Clive Osgood

    Stabat Mater; III. O quam tristis

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Singer: Grace Davidson. Choir: Choir of Royal Holloway. Ensemble: London Mozart Players. Director: Rupert Gough.
    • Clive Osgood: Stabat Mater.
    • Convivium.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor, Op 7 'La campanella' (3rd mvt, Rondo)

    Performer: Rudolf Koelman. Orchestra: Netherlands Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend.
    • Challenge Classics.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Berceuse

    Performer: Quynh Nguyen.
    • Music & Arts.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 39 in E flat major, K 543 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Conductor: Antonello Manacorda.
    • Mozart Symphonies Nos. 39, 40, 41.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 34 No 10

    Performer: Anna Tsybuleva.

  • August Enna

    Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne (the Little Match Girl): Overture

    Orchestra: Odense Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Ole Schmidt.
    • Music Inspired By Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy-Tales.
    • Dacapo.
    • 1.

  • Eugène Gigout

    Grand Choeur dialogué

    Performer: Nicolas Kynaston.
    • Essential Organ.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no. 1 (Op.21) in C major, 3rd movement; Menuetto

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.
    • 3.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Sonatine, M. 40: I. Modéré

    Performer: Jean‐Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano.
    • Chandos.
    • 105.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Carnival Overture Op.92

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • DG.

  • Cecilia McDowall

    God is light

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Franz Liszt

    Liebesträume S.541 (no.3 in A flat major)

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Liszt: Piano Works: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Sony.
    • 1.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112: I. Ouverture (After Interméde symphonique)

    Orchestra: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jean-Luc Tingaud.
    • Fauré: Masques et bergamasques, Thème et variations, Caligula & Les Djinns.
    • Naxos.
    • 108.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Four Piece Suite: Samba Triste

    Performer: David Nettle. Performer: Richard Markham.
    • Scenes from West Side Story (Two Pianos).
    • Guild Music.
    • 11.

  • George Frideric Handel

    E vivo ancora?... Scherza infida (Ariodante)

    Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    A Night on the Bare Mountain

    Music Arranger: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • LPO.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Andante with variations in D major

    Performer: Catherine Ennis.
    • Priory.

  • Rachel Portman

    Homer Returns to the Orphanage (From "The Cider House Rules" Score)

    Performer: John Lenehan. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: David Snell.
    • The Cider House Rules (Original Score).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Scherzo-valse (10 Pièces pittoresques)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Chabrier: Dix Pieces Pittoresques and other piano music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.

  • Ivor Gurney

    Severn meadows

    Singer: Benjamin Luxon. Performer: David Willison.
    • Chandos.

Broadcast

  • Wed 2 Apr 202506:30
    BBC Radio 3