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Daybreak classics

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 ѿý Sounds to play Breakfast.”

3 hours

Music Played

  • John Ireland

    Elegy (Downland Suite)

    Performer: Cory Band. Conductor: Philip Harper.
    • Doyen.
  • Orlande de Lassus

    Timor et tremor

    Ensemble: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • Missa Osculetur me.
    • GIMELL.
    • 8.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Sextet in C Minor, Op.40 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • Les Vents Français - Winds & Piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 105.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 3

    Orchestra: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Linn.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Moonlight (4 Sea interludes [from 'Peter Grimes'] Op.33a)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Steuart Bedford.
    • Britten - London Symphony Orchestra, Steuart Bedford.
    • Collins Classics.
    • 11.
  • Trad.

    Blow the Wind Southerly

    Music Arranger: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Decca.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Chaconne (Dardanus - suite)

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio No. 1 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio Wanderer.
    • Schubert: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2, Notturno, Sonatensatz.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 104.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Valse des dépêches (Les Maries de la tour Eiffel)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • L'eventail De Jeanne / Les Mariés De La Tour Eiffel.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.
  • Georges Bizet

    Le bal - Galop (Jeux d'enfants)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Bizet: Symphony in C etc.: Concertgebouw Orchestra/Haitink.
    • Philips.
    • 9.
  • Carl Friedrich Abel

    Suite in

    Performer: Paolo Pandolfo.
    • GLOSSA.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Emperor Waltz

    Performer: Ernst Ottensamer. Performer: Wolfgang Schulz. Performer: Heinz Medjimorec. Ensemble: Alban Berg Quartett.
    • J. Strauss II: Waltzes.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.
  • Marc‐Antoine Charpentier

    Sans frayeur dans ce bois

    Performer: Charlotte Spruit. Performer: Sergio Bucheli.
  • Thomas Weelkes

    Thule, the Period of Cosmography

    Choir: The King’s Singers.
    • Tom & Will – Weelkes & Byrd: 400 Years.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 106.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony no. 8 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Johann Christian Bach

    Sonata in A, Op.17 no.5

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • BACH: The Art of Life (Encore Edition).
    • DG.
    • 1.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Oberon: Overture

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • Weber: Complete Overtures.
    • CPO.
    • 401.
  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Study no. 1

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • ʰǴڱó.
    • Pentatone.
    • 105.
  • Manuel de Falla

    La vida breve: Danza española

    Performer: Lucero Tena. Orchestra: Orquesta Nacional de España. Conductor: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.
    • De Falla: La vida breve, El amor brujo & El sombrero de tres picos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 17.
  • Thomas Linley (the younger)

    Violin Concerto in F (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Conductor: Peter Holman. Orchestra: The Parley of Instruments.
    • English Classical Violin Concertos (English Orpheus 37).
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Adagio (Concerto in D minor after Alessandro Marcello)

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • Best of Glenn Gould's Bach.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Chamber symphony no.1 Op.43 'Le Printemps'

    Orchestra: The Orchestra of Radio Luxemourg. Conductor: Darius Milhaud.
    • Milhaud: The 6 Little Symphonies.
    • VOX BOX.
    • 1.
  • Jean Féline

    Coucou

    Composer: Roger Henry Bertrand. Composer: Antonio Matas. Performer: Django Reinhardt. Singer: Josette Daydé. Ensemble: Quintette du Hot Club de France.
    • Django Reinhardt 1940.
    • Classics.
    • 13.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto (1st mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Grieg, Schumann: Piano Concertos: Andsnes, Jansons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Vedrò con mio diletto (Giustino)

    Singer: Jakub Józef Orliński. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro. Director: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • Vedrò con mio diletto (Vivaldi).
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • William Walton

    Portsmouth Point

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Walton: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Manning Sherwin

    A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster. Music Arranger: Tom Poster.
    • The Jukebox Album.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 11.

Broadcast

  • Tue 18 Mar 2025 06:30