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Start the day 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.

Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 24 Nov 2023 06:30

Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Serenade to Music (orchestral version)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Onyx.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in A minor, K 511

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 1 in G major, BWV 1007 (Prelude)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    J.S. Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: V. Menuet I - Menuet II

    Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • Bach: Cello Suites 1-6, BWV 1007-1012.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Franz Schubert

    Ave Maria

    Music Arranger: August Wilhelmj. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Skaila Kanga.
    • Decca (UMO).
  • Giacomo Puccini

    The Humming Chorus (Madama Butterfly)

    Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Franz Lehár

    Gold und Silber Op. 79

    Orchestra: Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • Lehár: Waltzes.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Andante festivo

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • BIS.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor, Op 21 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jun Märkl.
    • Chopin: Piano Concertos.
    • LINN.
    • 6.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Waft her, Angels (Jephtha)

    Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Classical Opera Company. Conductor: Ian Page.
    • Signum.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    West Side Story (Overture)

    Orchestra: "West Side Story" Orchestra. Conductor: Johnny Green.
    • SONY MASTERWORKS.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    Sympathy by Emily Bronte, read by Fenella Woolgar

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op 64 No 5, 'The Lark' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Fine Arts Quartet.
    • Lodia.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance for Four Hands in E Minor, Op. 72/2: Dumka (Allegretto grazioso)

    Ensemble: Gvantsa Buniatishvili. Ensemble: Khatia Buniatishvili.
    • Motherland.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • Michel Legrand

    The Windmills of Your Mind

    Music Arranger: Michail Tsygutkin. Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • As Time Goes By.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 113.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Quintet in B flat major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • CRD.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O quam mirabilis est

    Ensemble: Sequentia.
    • EMI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in C sharp major, BWV.848

    Music Arranger: Peter Maxwell Davies. Ensemble: The Fires of London. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • Renaissance & Baroque Realisations.
    • Unicorn-Kanchana.
    • 6.
  • Claude Debussy

    Trois chansons de Charles d'Orléans: II. Quant j'ai ouy le tambourin

    Ensemble: Triton Trombone Quartet.
    • BIS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.8 in F major Op.93 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • RCA.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Gianni Schicchi: "O mio babbino caro" (Lauretta)

    Singer: Maria Callas. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Tullio Serafin.
    • Maria Callas - The Legend.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • Anonymous

    Suite from Uhrovska's manuscript: [Untitled] - Hungaricus - Hajdukujymy - Hungar

    Singer: Helene Richaud. Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien. Conductor: François Lazarevitch.
    • Beauté barbare.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 3.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No.2 in D minor

    Orchestrator: Iván Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Brahms: Hungarian Dances.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Autumn (6 Études de concert- book 1 Op.35)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's French Album.
    • hyperion.
    • 013.

Broadcast

  • Fri 24 Nov 2023 06:30