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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.”

3 hours

Last on

Mon 31 Mar 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Frederick Delius

    Spring morning

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Franz Liszt

    Grande étude de Paganini No 3 in G sharp minor, 'La Campanella'

    Performer: Yundi.
    • Liszt - Wild and Crazy.
    • DG.
    • 3.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet, Op. 2 - I. Allegro energico

    Ensemble: Chineke! Chamber Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 24.
  • Franz Schubert

    An die Musik, D. 547

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Florian Boesch.
    • Florian Boesch & Malcolm Martineau: Schubert Lieder Recital.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 15.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Eric H. Thiman

    I wandered lonely as a cloud

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Ruairi Bowen.
    • Proud Songsters: English Solo Song.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 8.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Richard Wagner

    Tannhauser: Overture

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • EMI.
  • Robert A. Harris

    O how can I keep from singing

    Choir: London Voices. Conductor: Robert A. Harris.
    • Oxford University Press Music.
  • Judith Bailey

    Havas - a period of summer, Op. 44, Mvt I. Lanyon Quoit

    Orchestra: Bath Philharmonia. Conductor: Jason Thornton.
    • EM Records.
  • 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 06:30