
Start the day with classical music
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3’s award-winning classical breakfast show, including this week's 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century piece. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning, including ѿý Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, New Jersey based Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy remembers the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’, when pilot Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River. Hard Landing is recorded by the ѿý National Orchestra of Wales.
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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Frederick Delius
Spring morning
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.- Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring.
- Naxos.
- 3.
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Franz Liszt
Grande étude de Paganini No 3 in G sharp minor, 'La Campanella'
Performer: Yundi.- Liszt - Wild and Crazy.
- DG.
- 3.
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Helen Leach
Diary of the Bee (1. Bluebell and 2. Thistle)
Performer: John Bradbury. Ensemble: Victoria String Quartet.- Diary of the Bee: Chamber Works by Helen Leach.
- Divine Art.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (Cantata No 51)
Performer: Maurice André. Singer: Elly Ameling. Ensemble: English Deutsche Bachsolisten. Conductor: Helmut Winschermann.- EMI.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Juliet - the young girl (Romeo and Juliet - suite no. 2)
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton. Conductor: Andrew Litton.- Prokofiev: The Symphonies.
- BIS.
- 501.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonore - overture no.1 Op.138
Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Daniel Harding. Conductor: Daniel Harding.- Virgin.
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Lera Auerbach
24 Preludes Op.46: No.15, Adagio sognando
Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Leif Kaner‐Lidström.- PRISM, Vol. 1.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 2.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Nonet, Op. 2 - I. Allegro energico
Ensemble: Chineke! Chamber Ensemble.- Coleridge-Taylor.
- Decca Music Group Ltd..
- 24.
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Franz Schubert
An die Musik, D. 547
Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Florian Boesch.- Florian Boesch & Malcolm Martineau: Schubert Lieder Recital.
- Onyx Classics.
- 15.
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor (1877 Linz Version, Ed. L. Nowak): III. Scherzo
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.- Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1-9.
- BR-Klassik.
- 3.
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Gavin Bryars
The Fifth Century, ii. As sure as there is a space infinite
Choir: The Crossing. Ensemble: PRISM Quartet. Conductor: Donald Nally.- Gavin Bryars – The Fifth Century.
- ECM.
- 2.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in A major K.581 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Martin Frost. Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.- Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Quintet: Martin Frost.
- BIS.
- 5.
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Eric H. Thiman
I wandered lonely as a cloud
Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Ruairi Bowen.- Proud Songsters: English Solo Song.
- Kings College Cambridge.
- 8.
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Les Indes galantes Suite
Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.- Le Concert Spirituel - Au Temps de Louis XV: Le Concert Des Nations, Jordi Saval.
- Alia Vox.
- 25-31.
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John Ireland
Greater love hath no man
Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Singer: Áine Smith. Singer: Florian Störtz. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.- Ireland: Greater love hath no man.
- Delphian Records.
- 1.
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Alexey Shor
Piano Concerto No. 1: III. Allegro con passione
Performer: Behzod Abduraimov. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.- Prokofiev & Shor.
- Alpha Classics.
- 7.
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Wilhelm Stenhammar
I skogen - In the forest
Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Johanna Wallroth. -
Thomas Tallis
If Ye Love Me
Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- Allegri: Miserere / Tallis: Spem in Alium (Classic FM: The Full Works).
- Decca (UMO) (Classics).
- 14.
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Donnacha Dennehy
Hard Landing
Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jac van Steen. -
Joseph Haydn
Organ concerto in D Hob XVIII:2: Adagio
Performer: Ton Koopman. Conductor: Ton Koopman. Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.- Haydn: Organ Concertos.
- Challenge Classics.
- 8.
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Richard Wagner
Tannhauser: Overture
Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.- EMI.
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Robert A. Harris
O how can I keep from singing
Choir: London Voices. Conductor: Robert A. Harris.- Oxford University Press Music.
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Judith Bailey
Havas - a period of summer, Op. 44, Mvt I. Lanyon Quoit
Orchestra: Bath Philharmonia. Conductor: Jason Thornton.- EM Records.
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Claude Debussy
Prelude 'Les sons et parfums tournent dans l'air du soir'
Performer: George Fu. -
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Valse-fantasie in B minor, arr. for orchestra [orig. for piano]
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.- WARNER CLASSICS.
Broadcast
- Mon 31 Mar 2025 06:30ѿý Radio 3