
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.”
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John Eccles
Ground: Aire (The Mad Lover Suite)
Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Thomas Dunford.- The Mad Lover.
- harmonia mundi.
- 101.
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Aaron Copland
Quiet City
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- Aaron Copland: The World of Aaron Copland.
- Decca.
- 3.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (1st mvt)
Performer: John Butt. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort.- J.S. Bach: Six Brandenburg Concertos.
- Linn Records.
- 14.
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Aleksander Michalowski
Paraphrase on the Waltz in D flat, Op 64 no. 1 by Fryderyk Chopin
Performer: Fredrik Ullén.- BIS.
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Hannah Peel
Sunrise through the Dusty Nebula
Ensemble: Tubular Brass. Conductor: Sandy Smith.- My Own Pleasure.
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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.
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Louis‐Claude Daquin
Le coucou
Performer: Catherine Ennis.- 500 years of Organ Music for Royal Occasions.
- CMFR.
- 6.
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Benjamin Britten
Cuckoo! (Friday afternoons Op.7)
Singer: Cosmo Sheldrake.- Wake Up Calls.
- Tardigrade Records.
- 7.
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Johann Strauss II
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.- SONY CLASSICAL.
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Ned Rorem
Early in the Morning
Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Nicky Spence.- A Most Marvellous Party.
- Signum Classics.
- 103.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No 41, 'Jupiter' (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.- Music of the Spheres.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 4.
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Noël Coward
London Pride
Performer: Noël Coward. Orchestra: Unknown Orchestra. Conductor: Carroll Gibbons.- I'll see you again.
- ASV.
- 19.
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John Foulds
April - England
Performer: Kathryn Stott.- John Foulds: Piano Music.
- BIS.
- 15.
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George Frideric Handel
Water Music: Alla Hornpipe
Ensemble: Berlin Academy for Early Music. Conductor: Georg Kallweit.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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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.
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Lennox Berkeley
Serenade for Strings (2nd mvt)
Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.- CHANDOS.
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Trad.
Lamorna
Music Arranger: Brenda Wootton. Singer: Brenda Wootton.- Way Down To Lamorna.
- Sentinel.
- 1.
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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.
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Harry Engleman
Finger Prints
Performer: Paul Guinery.- Finger Prints.
- EMF Endeavours.
- 01.
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Jean Sibelius
Pelleas et Melisande Op.46 (At the Castle Gate)
Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Petri Sakari.- Sibelius - Incidental Music.
- Chandos.
- 1.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Symphony No. 2 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2.
- Decca.
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Richard Rodney Bennett
Let's go and live in the country
Singer: Richard Rodney Bennett. Singer: Richard Rodney Bennett.- Lush Life.
- ODE.
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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.
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Benjamin Britten
Young Apollo, Op.16
Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Elizabeth Layton. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.- HYPERION.
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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.
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Harold Arlen
The Radio 3 Breakfast Singalong: Over The Rainbow
Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Lyricist: Yip Harburg.
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