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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

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Leggenda

    Performer: Francesco de Angelis. Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Ronald Binge

    Cornet carillon

    Performer: Hannaford Street Silver Band. Conductor: James Curnow.
    • CBC.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in B flat major, Op 97, 'Archduke' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Andr茅 Previn. Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Heinrich Schiff.
    • Beethoven: Archduke Trio: Previn, Mullova, Schiff.
    • Philips.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet! Betet! Betet! Wachet! (Cantata no.70)

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.9 in E flat major, K.271 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Mozart Piano Concertos nos. 8 & 9.
    • Philips.
    • 3.
  • Ferdinando Carulli

    Serenade No. 1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Agostino Valente. Performer: Goran Liste拧.
    • GUITART.
  • Trad.

    O Tannenbaum

    Music Arranger: Willy Mattes. Orchestra: Radio Luxembourg Symphony. Choir: Cologne Children'S Choir. Conductor: Leopold Hager.
    • Stille Nacht - Die Sch枚nsten Weihnachtslieder.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.
  • C茅sar Franck

    No毛l angevin

    Performer: Nicholas Danby.
    • The Organ: Cesar Franck: Nicholas Danby.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 9.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Cello Concerto No.1 in A minor, Op. 33 (Allegro non troppo)

    Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Story of the Kalendar Prince (Sheherazade)

    Conductor: Lorin Maazel. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Scheherazade.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • William Byrd

    Ecce, Virgo Concipiet

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Puer Natus Est, Tudor Music For Advent and Christmas: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.
  • 脡mile Waldteufel

    Bonne Bouche, Op. 163: Polka

    Orchestra: The Gulbenkian Orchestra. Conductor: Michel Swierczewski.
    • Nimbus.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Nutcracker Suite: No.7 Pas de deux

    Performer: Simon Trpceski. Music Arranger: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • Piano Works: Trpceski.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major, Op 39

    Conductor: Georg Solti. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Elgar: Enigma variations/Pomp and circumstance marches: Solti.
    • Decca.
  • William Walton

    Symphony No. 1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Walton: Symphonies 1&2.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 2.
  • Sasha Johnson Manning

    O Magnum Mysterium

    Choir: 成人论坛 Singers. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
  • Maddalena Laura Sirmen

    Violin Concerto No. 3 in A Major, Op. 3, No. 3 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Stefano Montanari. Orchestra: Arion Orchestre Baroque.
    • Early-music.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    A Musical Joke, K 522 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart: A Little Light Music.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • John Kander

    Cabaret - musical: Cabaret

    Performer: Barry Dennen. Singer: Judi Dench. Orchestra: Original London Cast Recording Orchestra. Conductor: Gareth Davies.
    • SONY WEST END.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Fantaisie-tableaux, Op.5 (Barcarolle)

    Performer: Andr茅 Previn. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Rachmaninov: Suites 1&2: Ashkenazy/Previn.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Jacobus Gallus

    Rorate caeli

    Conductor: Graham Ross. Ensemble: The Bevan Family Consort.
    • Christmas with the Bevan Family Consort.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 102.
  • Han-Kun Sha

    Shepherd's Song

    Music Arranger: Yi-Wen Jiang. Ensemble: The Shanghai Quartet.
    • China Song.
    • Delos.
    • 501.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata No 14 in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2, 'Moonlight'

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili.
  • Trad.

    The holly and the ivy

    Performer: Simon Bell. Performer: Frances Kelly. Music Arranger: Henry Walford Davies. Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Director: Andrew Lumsden.
    • Christmas from Winchester: Winchester Cathedral Choir.
    • Regent.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    Grand Duo for violin & piano in A major, D.574 (4th movement)

    Performer: Peter Frankl. Performer: Gy枚rgy Pauk.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Puccini: La Boh猫me: "Che gelida manina"

    Singer: Benjamin Bernheim. Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia.
    • Benjamin Bernheim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 22.

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