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

3 hours

Last on

Tue 1 Apr 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Crisantemi for String Orchestra

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Puccini: Messa di Gloria, Preludio sinfonico & Crisantemi.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 18.
  • Ferruccio Busoni

    Divertimento Op.52 for flute and orchestra

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ivan Repušić.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E-Flat Major (1st mvt.)

    Performer: Chaos String Quartet.
    • Haydn, Ligeti & Mendelssohn: String Quartets.
    • Solo Musica.
    • 6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 99: (6th mvt. Chorale)

    Music Arranger: Walter Morse Rummel. Performer: Jonathan Plowright.
    • Bach: Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 6 – Walter Rummel.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker Suite (Waltz of the Flowers)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Serenade For Strings; Neville Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 8.
  • George Butterworth

    Loveliest of Trees (A Shropshire Lad)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • George Butterworth, Songs from A Shropshire Lad: Williams / Burnside.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Yuquijiro Yocoh

    Sakura Variations

    Performer: John Williams.
    • John Williams: The Seville Concert.
    • Sony.
    • 7.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in E flat major (3rd mvt, Presto)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • Signum.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, No. 2 'Moonlight': I. Adagio sostenuto

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 9.
  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Dante Quartet.
    • Debussy/Ravel: String Quartets: Dante Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino for harp and orchestra (3rd mvt. Rondo)

    Performer: Nicanor Zabaleta. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • Boieldieu / Saint-Saëns / Tailleferre / Ravel: Harp Concertos.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • George Gershwin

    Prelude No 2

    Performer: Matilda Lloyd. Performer: Richard Gowers.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento_No._15_in_B-Flat_Major,_K._287__II._Andante_grazioso_con_Variazioni

    Performer: Camerata Salzburg. Conductor: Sándor Végh.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Barber of Seville (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Rossini Overtures - The Chamber Orchestra Of Europe.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Solomon (Act 3 - "Praise the Lord")

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Handel: Solomon.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 37.
  • Madeleine Dring

    Trio for flute, oboe and piano. (Ist mvt. Allegro con brio)

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Adam Walker. Performer: Antonio Oyarzabal.
    • Madeleine Dring: Complete Works for Oboe.
    • Chandos.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto Op. 77 (2nd mvt.)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485 (1st mvt.)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Schubert : Symphonies Nos 5, 8, 'Unfinished' & Overtures.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C major Op.76`3 'Emperor' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76 Nos. 1-3.
    • BIS.
    • 9.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in C minor, Op 48 No 1

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie Fantastique (A Ball)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Cyclopes from Suite in D major

    Performer: Ryan Corbett.
  • Herbert Howells

    I love all beauteous things

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Performer: Eleanor Kornas. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Howells: Collegium Regale.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in A Major, Kk 212

    Performer: Daria van den Bercken.
    • Domenico Scarlatti and Daria van den Bercken.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • Emilie Mayer

    Symphony No 7 in F minor (3rd mvmt, Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Berlin. Conductor: Jürgen Bruns.
    • Dreyer Gaido.

Broadcast

  • Tue 1 Apr 2025 06:30