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Wake up with classical music

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with the Friday poem and music that captures the mood of the morning.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 25 Aug 2023 06:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Joseph Canteloube

    Baïlèro (Chants d'Auvergne - set 1)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Pascal Rophé.
    • Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne.
    • BIS.
    • 102.

  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Violin Concerto No 2 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Joanna Kurkowicz. Orchestra: Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lukasz Borowicz.
    • Chandos.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Das Jahr: 12 Characterstucke: No. 8. August

    Performer: Liana Șerbescu.
    • Mendelssohn-Hensel, F.: Keyboard Music, Vol. 1 - Das Jahr: 12 Characterstucke.
    • CPO.
    • 108.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fuga a 3 Soggetti (The Art of Fugue, BWV.1080)

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Bach - The Art of Fugue - Fretwork.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 020.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Berlioz: Queen Mab Scherzo from Romeo & Juliet, Op.17

    Lyricist: Émile Deschamps. Lyricist: William Shakespeare. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra.
    • 50 Greatest Orchestral Works.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.

  • John Harle

    Mistress Mine; 2. O Mistress Mine

    Performer: John Harle. Performer: Steve Lodder. Performer: Mitch Dalton. Performer: Roy Babbington. Lyricist: William Shakespeare. Singer: Elvis Costello. Ensemble: John Harle Band. Ensemble: Bălănescu Quartet.
    • Harle: Terror and Magnificence.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Quartet in G minor K.478 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Federico Colli. Performer: Francesca Dego. Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Laura van der Heijden.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Sicilienne Op.78

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Mariko Anraku.
    • Beau Soir, French and Japanese melodies: Pahud/Anraku.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia - incidental music; Overture Op. 10

    Orchestra: Oulu Sinfonia. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Overtures from Finland.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Judith Weir

    Love Bade Me Welcome

    Choir: Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Conductor: Geoffrey Webber.
    • DELPHIAN.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata in F sharp minor, K 448

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • BIS.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Serenade in E major Op.22 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Auvergne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Roberto Forés Veses.
    • Dvořák, Janáček, Martinů: Works for Strings.
    • Aparté.
    • 101.

  • FRIDAY POEM

    'The Buttercup Children' by Phoebe Hesketh, read by Brian Gear

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Buttercup Serenade (Cox and Box)

    Singer: James Gilchrist. Singer: Neal Davies. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Sullivan, A: Cox and Box / Trial by Jury.
    • Chandos.
    • 12.

  • Franz Schubert

    3 marches militaires, D.733 (Op. 51); No. 1 in D flat major

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz. Music Arranger: Carl Tausig.
    • Vladimir Horowitz - The Studio Recordings.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 15.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets Suite, Op. 32: V. Saturn

    Choir: London Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Holst: The Planets.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 105.

  • Tarik O’Regan

    Locus iste

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Director: Timothy Brown.
    • Tarik O'Regan - Voices.
    • Collegium Records.
    • 13.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 85 in B-Flat Major, Hob. I:85 "La reine": IV. Finale. Presto

    Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.
    • Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 85-87.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Maria (from West Side Story)

    Singer: Nicky Spence. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ian McMillan.
    • Nicky Spence.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 4.

  • Peter Graham

    Montage - symphony for wind orchestra; 2nd mvt

    Performer: Hasle Brass. Conductor: Robert Solberg Nilsen.
    • Nm Brass 2015 - 1. Divisjon.
    • Grong Musikkproduksjon.
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata for Solo Violin No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003: III. Andante

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Hippolyte et Aricie; Act 3 Prelude 'Cruelle mère des amours'

    Singer: Janet Baker. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Lewis.
    • Dame Janet Baker: Philips And Decca Recordings 1961-1979.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Alan Menken

    Beauty and the Beast (Overture)

    Music Arranger: James Shearman. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Kosarin.
    • Beauty and the Beast.
    • Walt Disney Records.
    • 1.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in C major, K 545 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

Broadcast

  • Fri 25 Aug 2023 06:30
    BBC Radio 3