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Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3鈥檚 award-winning classical breakfast show, including this week's 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century piece. 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 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3鈥檚 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century 鈥� a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, pianist and composer Stephen Hough commemorates the Twin Towers with his solo piano piece Nocturne, for September 10th recorded by former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Elisabeth Brauss. Co-commissioned with the Henry Barber Trust.

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Music Played

  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • EMI.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    O magnum mysterium

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Martin Baker.
    • Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina, Missa Hodie Christus Natus Est etc....
    • HYPERION.
    • 11.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65, B. 160: III. Largo

    Performer: Brian Thornton. Performer: Spencer Myer.
    • Chopin: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65, B. 160 - Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in.
    • Steinway and Sons.
    • 103.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto No 2 in E major, BWV 1042 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Thomas Zehetmair. Ensemble: Amsterdam Bach Soloists.
    • Bach: Violin Concertos: Zehetmair/Amsterdam Bach Soloists.
    • Berlin Classics.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major Op.20 for strings (3rd mvt)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Ensemble: Seattle Chamber Players.
    • ONYX.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Quartet in A Minor, TWV 43:a3: IV. Vivace

    Ensemble: Ensemble Ventus Iucundus.
    • Telemann Quartets.
    • Gramola Records.
    • 304.

  • Scott Joplin

    Solace

    Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Joplin: The Easy Winner & Other Rag-Time Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Vieille pri猫re bouddhique

    Singer: Raymond Amade. Choir: Ch艙urs 脡lisabeth Brasseur. Performer: Jean-Jacques Grunenwald. Orchestra: Orchestre Lamoureux. Conductor: Igor Markevitch.
    • Everest.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • DG.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    This Is the Record of John

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks. Ensemble: The Jacobean Consort of Viols.
    • Praise from King's.
    • Editions Audiovisuel Beulah.
    • 1.

  • George Antheil

    Over the Plains

    Orchestra: 麻豆官网首页入口 Philharmonic. Conductor: John Storg氓rds.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations (Aria)

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • DG.

  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Colas Breugnon Op.24 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Director: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Khachaturian, Mussorgsky, Shchedrin etc..
    • Onyx.
    • 01.

  • Hania Rani

    La Luce

    Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Performer: Hania Rani. Performer: Dobrawa Czocher. Ensemble: Scoring Berlin. Conductor: Jonathan Stockhammer.
    • LYS.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 13.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Carnival Overture, Op.92

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Dvorak: Symphony No.9/Carnival Overture.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Harold Arlen

    Stormy Weather

    Performer: Oscar Peterson. Performer: Ray Brown. Performer: Herb Ellis.
    • Columbia.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Waltz (Masquerade Suite)

    Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin.
    • RCA.

  • Sir Stephen Hough

    Nocturne (September 10, 2001)

    Performer: Elisabeth Brauss.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cello Concerto in B Minor, RV 424 [complete]

    Performer: Philipp Schupelius. Conductor: Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. Orchestra: Metamorphosen Berlin.
    • Driven.
    • Genuin.
    • 101.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    5 Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.

  • Amy Beach

    Piano Concerto in C Sharp Minor Op.45 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Danny Driver. Orchestra: 麻豆官网首页入口 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • Hyperion.

  • Stephen Sondheim

    Send in the clowns (A Little Night Music)

    Singer: Judi Dench. Orchestra: Royal National Theatre Band. Conductor: Paddy Cunneen.
    • TRING.

  • Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Wirt und Gast: Overture

    Conductor: Dario Salvi. Orchestra: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice.
    • Meyerbeer: Overtures & Stage Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 126.

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