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Boost your morning with classical

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show, featuring the Friday poem. 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

Fri 4 Apr 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • John Eccles

    Ground: Aire (The Mad Lover Suite)

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • The Mad Lover.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.
  • Aaron Copland

    Quiet City

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Aaron Copland: The World of Aaron Copland.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (1st mvt)

    Performer: John Butt. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort.
    • J.S. Bach: Six Brandenburg Concertos.
    • Linn Records.
    • 14.
  • Aleksander Michalowski

    Paraphrase on the Waltz in D flat, Op 64 no. 1 by Fryderyk Chopin

    Performer: Fredrik Ullén.
    • BIS.
  • Hannah Peel

    Sunrise through the Dusty Nebula

    Ensemble: Tubular Brass. Conductor: Sandy Smith.
    • My Own Pleasure.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata No. 5, "Spring" (1st mvt)

    Performer: Frank Peter Zimmermann. Performer: Martin Helmchen.
    • Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5-7.
    • BIS.
    • 101.
  • Louis‐Claude Daquin

    Le coucou

    Performer: Catherine Ennis.
    • 500 years of Organ Music for Royal Occasions.
    • CMFR.
    • 6.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Cuckoo! (Friday afternoons Op.7)

    Singer: Cosmo Sheldrake.
    • Wake Up Calls.
    • Tardigrade Records.
    • 7.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Ned Rorem

    Early in the Morning

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Nicky Spence.
    • A Most Marvellous Party.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 103.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 41, 'Jupiter' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Noël Coward

    London Pride

    Performer: Noël Coward. Orchestra: Unknown Orchestra. Conductor: Carroll Gibbons.
    • I'll see you again.
    • ASV.
    • 19.
  • John Foulds

    April - England

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • John Foulds: Piano Music.
    • BIS.
    • 15.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music: Alla Hornpipe

    Ensemble: Berlin Academy for Early Music. Conductor: Georg Kallweit.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Traditional Irish air

    Meilte Cheann Dubhrann - The Sandy hills of Ceann Durban

    Performer: Neil Martin. Music Arranger: Neil Martin.
  • Henry Purcell

    Three Parts Upon a Ground

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien. Director: François Lazarevitch.
    • Purcell: Songs & Dances.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 14.
  • Lennox Berkeley

    Serenade for Strings (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Trad.

    Lamorna

    Music Arranger: Brenda Wootton. Singer: Brenda Wootton.
    • Way Down To Lamorna.
    • Sentinel.
    • 1.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Mambo (West Side Story)

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Harry Engleman

    Finger Prints

    Performer: Paul Guinery.
    • Finger Prints.
    • EMF Endeavours.
    • 01.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Pelleas et Melisande Op.46 (At the Castle Gate)

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Petri Sakari.
    • Sibelius - Incidental Music.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No. 2 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Let's go and live in the country

    Singer: Richard Rodney Bennett. Singer: Richard Rodney Bennett.
    • Lush Life.
    • ODE.
    • 7.
  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Murder on the Orient Express (Waltz)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.
    • 100 Greatest Film Themes, Take 2.
    • Silva Screen.
    • 11.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Young Apollo, Op.16

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Elizabeth Layton. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • HYPERION.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata 71: The New Regime

    Singer: Joanne Lunn. Singer: William Towers. Singer: Kobie van Rensburg. Singer: Peter Harvey. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SDG.
  • Harold Arlen

    The Radio 3 Breakfast Singalong: Over The Rainbow

    Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Lyricist: Yip Harburg.

Broadcast

  • Fri 4 Apr 2025 06:30