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Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with the Friday poem and music that captures the mood of the morning.

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Music Played

  • Louise Farrenc

    Piano Quintet No. 2 in E Major, Op. 31 (1840) - 2. Grave

    Ensemble: The Schubert Ensemble.
    • Farrenc: Piano Quintets.
    • Decca (UMO).
    • 6.

  • Henry Purcell

    Harpsichord Suite No. 4 in A minor, Z. 663

    Performer: Grigory Sokolov.
    • Purcell & Mozart.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Gang Chen

    Butterfly Lovers Violin concerto, 7th mvt, Adagio Cantabile

    Composer: Zhanhao He. Performer: Chloe Chua. Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rodolfo Barr谩ez.
    • Butterfly Lovers Concerto & Paganini.
    • Pentatone.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, bk.I no.24 in B Minor, BWV 869

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • The Glenn Gould Edition: Bach: The Well-tempered Clavier 1.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 23.

  • Ronald Binge

    The Water Mill

    Performer: Ruth Scott. Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics: New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Kyrie

    Ensemble: Oxford Camerata. Conductor: Jeremy Summerly.
    • NAXOS.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe Concerto in F Minor, TWV 51:f1 (Trans. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: Pinnock's Players. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Baroque Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Ber莽euse, P. 038

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of New York. Conductor: Salvatore Di Vittorio.
    • Respighi: 3 Liriche.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.

  • Max Bruch

    Concerto in E minor for clarinet, viola and orchestra Op.88 (2nd mvt) Allegro Moderato

    Performer: Paul Meyer. Performer: G茅rard Causs茅. Orchestra: Op茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Bruch/Werke fur Klarinette und Viola.
    • Erato.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in D major, K 136 (2nd mvt) Andante

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • William Walton

    Set me as a seal upon thine heart

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Decca.

  • George Gershwin

    An American in Paris - Main Title

    Orchestra: John Wilson Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Warner Classics.

  • FRIDAY POEM

    Let There Be Peace, read and written by Lemm Sissay

  • Jessie Montgomery

    Peace (Version for Violin & Piano)

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • The Jukebox Album.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 15.

  • Georges Bizet

    Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre; Tor茅ador, en garde (Carmen)

    Singer: Sherrill Milnes. Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Phonix-Schwingen, Walzer, Op. 125

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Sony.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Guitar Quintet No 4 in D major G.448 (1st mvt - Pastorale)

    Performer: Johan L枚fving. Ensemble: Consone Quartet.
    • Fandango! Music for Solo Guitar and String Quartet.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 8.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in C sharp minor Op.3'2

    Music Arranger: Louis Vierne. Performer: Olivier Latry.
    • DG.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    The Great Gate of Kiev (Pictures at an Exhibition)

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • ONYX.

  • John Rutter

    Requiem: VII. Lux aeterna (Thomas Harries, Treble)

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Rutter: Requiem.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49, II. Andante con moto tranquillo

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Jeremy Denk.
    • Sony.

  • Trad.

    As I Walked Out

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet. Music Arranger: Rune Tonsgaard S酶rensen. Music Arranger: Frederik 脴land. Music Arranger: Asbj酶rn N酶rgaard. Music Arranger: Fredrik Sj枚lin.
    • Keel Road.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 12.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op 77 (3rd mvt) Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace

    Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • DG.

  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Hommage a Chopin - no.5 - Andante

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • BIS.

  • Florence Price

    Symphony No. 4 in D Minor - III. Juba. Allegro

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Florence Price: Symphony No. 4 鈥� William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    I wouldn't normally say

    Performer: Hanni Liang.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Venezia: 2. La barcheta

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson. Lyricist: Pi猫tro Buratti.
    • Souvenirs de Venise - Songs of Venice.
    • Helios.
    • 14.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Piano Trio No. 3, in F Minor, Op. 65: II. Allegro grazioso

    Ensemble: Trio Im脿ge.
    • Trio Im脿ge plays Dvo艡谩k, Fall & Dyakov.
    • CAvi-music.
    • 102.

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