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Ease into the day with classical music

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.”

3 hours

Last on

Fri 7 Mar 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • 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.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pièce en forme de habanera

    Music Arranger: Bertrand Chamayou. Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Fragments.
    • ERATO.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Andrew Haveron. Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita in C minor BWV.997 (Prelude and Fugue)

    Music Arranger: Sean Shibe. Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Bach.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 7.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D, 'Lark' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Hagen String Quartet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Rebecca Dale

    I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

    Author: William Wordsworth. Ensemble: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Rebecca Dale: Night Seasons.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.
  • Leos Janáček

    Mladi [Youth] Suite (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: London Winds.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Arpeggione Sonata (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lise Berthaud. Performer: Adam Laloum.
    • Berthaud & Laloum: Schumann - Schubert - Brahms.
    • 貹é.
    • 7.
  • Georges Bizet

    Farandole (L'Arlésienne)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Kazuki Yamada.
    • Bizet, Fauré & Gounod.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 8.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Reflets

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Performer: Jâms Coleman.
    • Path to the Moon.
    • Chandos.
    • 105.
  • 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.
  • Giovanni Battista Fontana

    Sonata No 8

    Ensemble: Theatre of the Ayre.
    • Delphian.
  • 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 06:30