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Thursday - Petroc Trelawny

Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny, including the wining entry in the Breakfast Carol Competition. Plus the Best of British Playlist and your musical requests and suggestions. email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Christmas Day 2014 06:30

Music Played

  • Leroy Anderson

    A Christmas Festival

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Bell.
    • RSNO: A Family Christmas.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Fantasy on Christmas Carols (from the film "The Holly and the Ivy")

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Arnold: Film Music, Volume 2: Dyson, 大象传媒 Phil, Gamba.
    • Chandos.
    • 23.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jauchzet, frohlocket! (Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach: Sacred Choral Works: Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 1.
  • Frank Bridge

    Sir Roger de Coverley - Christmas Dance

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Bridge: Orchestral Works Vol. 3: Shelley / 大象传媒 NOW / Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Matthew Curtis

    Christmas Rush

    Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Another Night Before Christmas.
    • NAXOS.
    • 9.
  • Gabriel Jackson

    Nowell sing we

  • Gasper Fernandes

    Xicochi,xicochi conetzintle - villancico for chorus

    Ensemble: Ex Cathedra Choir. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • New World Symphonies - Baroque Music from L:atin America: Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey S.
    • Hyperion.
  • Jacqueline Burley

    Can it be true?

    Performer: Richard Pearce. Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: David Hill. Lyricist: Susan Hill.
  • Jacqueline Burley

    Can it Be True?

    Performer: 大象传媒 Singers.
  • Ben Parry

    Jingle Bells

    Conductor: Stephen Layton. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge.
  • Leopold Mozart

    A musical sleigh ride

    Music Arranger: Philip Lane. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • The Night Before Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • 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.
  • Graham Fitkin

    The Christmas Truce

    Performer: Richard Pearce. Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: David Hill.
  • Richard B. Smith

    Winter Wonderland arr Brubeck

    Composer: Felix Barnard. Performer: Dave Brubeck.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Champagner-Polka (Op.211)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georges Pr锚tre.
    • New Year's Concert 2010.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Josef Suk

    Lullabies [Ukolebavky]: no.5; Christmas dream [Vanocni sen]

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Suk: Piano Works: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Chandos.
    • 15.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Nutcracker Suite: Overture

    Music Arranger: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra. Ensemble: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
    • Columbia.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Waltz of the Snowflakes)

    Choir: Libera. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.
  • Michael c.1571-1621) Praetorius

    In dulci jubilo

    Ensemble: The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble. Music Arranger: Keith McGowan. Composer: Samuel Scheidt.
    • A Hanseatic Festival.
    • Deux-Elles.
    • 13.
  • Trad.

    The Twelve Days of Christmas

    Music Arranger: Andrew Carter. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • What Sweeter Music: Songs and Carols for Christmas.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 18.
  • Trad.

    Ding dong merrily on high

    Music Arranger: Charles Wood. Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Director: Andrew Lumsden.
    • Christmas from Winchester: Winchester Cathedral Choir.
    • Regent.
    • 21.
  • Trad.

    The Little drummer boy - carol arr.Katherine K Davis

    Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • We Wish You A Merry Christmas.
    • Philips Classics.
    • 6.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Children's Christmas Song (Folk Songs of the Four Seasons)

    Choir: City of London Choir. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton.
    • In Terra Pax: A Christmas Anthology.
    • Naxos.
    • 14.
  • Victor Hely-Hutchinson

    A Carol Symphony (complete)

    Conductor: Gavin Sutherland. Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Naxos.
  • Traditional Carol

    Deck the Halls

    Conductor: Christopher Warren鈥怗reen. Music Arranger: Craig Leon. Orchestra: London Chamber Orchestra.
    • Midwinter's Eve, Music for Christmas.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
    • 1.
  • Trad

    Unto us is born a Son

    Music Arranger: Sir David Willcocks. Conductor: Paul Brough. Performer: Richard Pearce. Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Choir: Come and Sing Choir.

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