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Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with the Friday poem and 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.”
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Christopher Simpson
The Monthes: March
Performer: Sophie Watillon. Performer: Friederike Heumann. Performer: Brian Franklin. Performer: Matthias Spaeter. Performer: Luca Guglielmi.- Simpson: The Seasons, The Monthes & other divisions of Time - I.
- Alpha Classics.
- 5.
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Maurice Ravel
Pièce en forme de habanera
Music Arranger: Bertrand Chamayou. Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.- Fragments.
- ERATO.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Violin Concerto in D (2nd mvt)
Performer: Andrew Haveron. Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.- Chandos.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita in C minor BWV.997 (Prelude and Fugue)
Music Arranger: Sean Shibe. Performer: Sean Shibe.- Bach.
- Delphian Records.
- 7.
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Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in D, 'Lark' (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Hagen String Quartet.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Rebecca Dale
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
Author: William Wordsworth. Ensemble: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.- Rebecca Dale: Night Seasons.
- Signum Records.
- 7.
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Leos Janáček
Mladi [Youth] Suite (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: London Winds.- CHANDOS.
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Franz Schubert
Arpeggione Sonata (3rd mvt)
Performer: Lise Berthaud. Performer: Adam Laloum.- Berthaud & Laloum: Schumann - Schubert - Brahms.
- 貹é.
- 7.
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Georges Bizet
Farandole (L'Arlésienne)
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Kazuki Yamada.- Bizet, Fauré & Gounod.
- PENTATONE.
- 8.
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Lili Boulanger
Reflets
Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Jâms Coleman.- Path to the Moon.
- Chandos.
- 105.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no. 7 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.- Beethoven: Symphonies no.5 & 7: Wiener Philharmoniker/Kleiber.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 8.
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Giovanni Battista Fontana
Sonata No 8
Ensemble: Theatre of the Ayre.- Delphian.
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FRIDAY POEM
Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson, read by Siobhan Redmond
Traditional Catalan
Song of the Birds
Music Arranger: Pau Casals. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Ensemble: Cellos of the City of Birmingham Orchestra.- DECCA.
Ottorino Respighi
Spring (3 Botticelli Pictures)
Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- Deutsche Grammophon.
George Gershwin
S' Wonderful (Funny Face)
Performer: George Gershwin.- Gershwin - The Genius Collection.
- Vintage Masters Inc..
- 12.
Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G major (1st mvt)
Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- DG.
Benjamin Britten
Old Abram Brown (Friday Afternoons)
Performer: Viola Tunnard. Choir: Choir of Downside School, Purley. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.- LONDON.
Benjamin Britten
Early Morning Bathe (Holiday diary - suite Op.5)
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.- Britten: Piano works.
- VIRGIN CLASSICS.
- 001.
Leonard Bernstein
Overture to Candide
Music Arranger: Howard Snell. Performer: Cory Band. Conductor: Philip Harper.- Storytelling.
- DOYEN.
- 1.
John Ireland
When Daffodils Begin to Peer
Author: William Shakespeare. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.- Songs to Shakespeare.
- Hyperion.
- 20.
Roberto Negro
Jonquille de Saint-Péreuse
Singer: Élise Caron. Performer: Nicolas Bianco.- Loving Suite pour Birdy So.
- La Curieuse.
Muriel Herbert
To Daffodils
Author: Robert Herrick. Singer: James Gilchrist. Performer: David Owen Norris.- Songs of Muriel Herbert.
- Linn Records.
- 11.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major K.297b (3rd mvt)
Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Diethelm Jonas. Performer: Bruno Schneider. Performer: Sergio Azzolini. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Hans Vonk.- Mozart: Clarinet Concertos: Sabine Meyer.
- EMI Classics.
Orlando Gibbons
Drop, drop, slow tears (arr. P. Dearmer)
Music Arranger: Percy Dearmer. Author: Phineas Fletcher. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort.- A Song of Farewell: Music of Mourning and Consolation.
- Signum Classics.
- 101.
Sergey Rachmaninov
Symphony no.2 in E minor Op.27 (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Kirill Petrenko.- Berlin Philharmonic Recordings.
Robert Schumann
Fantasiestücke: I. Zart und mit Ausdruck
Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: James Baillieu.- Clara & Robert Schumann: Music for Clarinet and Piano.
- Signum Records.
- 5.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in D major for three violins, BWV 1064 (1st mvt)
Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Johannes Pramsohler. Performer: Bojan Čičić. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.- J S Bach - Double and Triple Concertos.
- CHANNEL CLASSICS.
- 10.
Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata in C minor, D 958 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Paul Lewis.- Schubert, The Late Piano sonatas D.784,958, 959 960.
- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- 6.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Phantasy Quintet (Burlesca)
Ensemble: Aronowitz Ensemble.- Climbing the Skies.
- Sonimage.
- 04.
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- Fri 7 Mar 2025 06:30ѿý Radio 3