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Classical music to set you up for the day

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet in E flat major for piano and wind K.452 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Performer: Neil Black. Performer: Dame Thea King. Performer: Graham Sheen. Performer: Anthony Halstead.
    • Mozart / Beethoven: Quintets for Piano & Winds.
    • CBS Masterworks.
    • 5.

  • William Mundy

    Memor esto verbi tui

    Choir: Contrapunctus. Conductor: Owen Rees.
    • The Sweetest Songs: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks III.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 701.

  • Edmund Rubbra

    Symphony no.4 Op.53 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in C sharp major, BWV.848

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • DECCA.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Humoresque in G flat major, Op. 101 No. 7

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Dvor谩k In Prague: A Celebration (Remastered).
    • Sony.
    • 4.

  • Johann David Heinichen

    Dresden Concerto in G major, S214 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Johann David Heinichen Dresden Concerti Musica Antiqua Koln Reinhard Goebel.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 16.

  • Claude Debussy

    String Quartet in G Minor, CD 91: III. Andantino, doucement expressif

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Debussy: String Quartet & Sonatas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no. 2 "Song of a new race" (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Cantique de Jean Racine, Op.11

    Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Performer: Stephen Cleobury. Conductor: George Guest.
    • DECCA.

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Trio No 2 in F major, Op 80 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio Wanderer.
    • Robert Schumann: Complete Piano Trios, Quartet & Quintet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 13.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Abu Hassan (Overture)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Weber: Overtures: Philharmonia/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborado del gracioso (Miroirs)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Ravel: Sheherazade; Ma Mere l'Oye; La Valse: BSO/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Octet in E flat Major Op.20 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Gringolts Quartet. Ensemble: Meta4.
    • Felix Mendelssohn & Enescu: Octets.
    • BIS.
    • 104.

  • Margaret Lensky

    Ave generosa

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite in G minor HWV 434 (arr Wilhelm Kempff) lV Minuet

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Petit Caprice "Style Offenbach"

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.

  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto Grosso in C minor, Op 7 No 5

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Iona Brown.
    • Geminiani: Concerti Grossi: Op.7: ASMF/Brown.
    • ASV.
    • 2.

  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arl茅sienne Suite No 1 (Carillon)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • The Best of Bizet.
    • Philips.
    • 4.

  • Max Reger

    Clarinet Quintet in A Major, Op. 146: II. Vivace

    Performer: Thorsten Johanns. Ensemble: Diogenes Quartett.
    • Reger: Clarinet Quintet in A Major, Op. 146 & String Sextet in F Major, Op. 118.
    • CPO.
    • 102.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Apollo (Pas de deux)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Stavinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps.
    • EMI.
    • 8.

  • Hubert Parry

    I Know My Soul Hath Power (Songs of Farewell)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Songs of Farewell.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 7.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Masks (Romeo and Juliet - Suite No 1)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - Excerpts from Suites No.1-3.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat major Op.83 ( 4th mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Sony.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Hymn (Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings)

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Radek Babor谩k. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila: "Overture"

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Nobel Prize Ceremony Music.
    • Fazer Records/Finlandia.
    • 8.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (Lyric Pieces - book 8 Op.65)

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt, Sigur Jorsalfar.
    • NAXOS.
    • 11.

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Andr茅 Previn. Performer: Young Uck Kim. Performer: Heiichiro Ohyama. Performer: Gary Hoffman.
    • Schumann: Piano Quartets.
    • Sony Music.
    • 3.

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