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Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and suggestions for the annual musical advent calendar.

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and your suggestions for our annual musical Advent Calendar.

Back in August, amateur composers were invited to set a specially commissioned poem by Roger McGough called "Comes the Light". Listeners have been invited to vote for the overall winner and to vote for your favourite carol, go to bbc.co.uk/radio3. Voting closes at 5pm on December 22nd.

Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 16 Dec 2015 06:30

Music Played

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Dornr枚schen Tone-Pictures (Prelude)

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Anton Rickenbacher.
    • Humperdinck: Fairy-tale music: Bamberger Symphoniker/Rickenbacher.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 7.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Ballade No 2 in F major, Op 38

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no.2 in F major BWV.1047

    Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • J.S. Bach: Orchestral Music: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Il re pastore (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
  • M谩ty谩s Seiber

    Dance Suite

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Thomas Ad猫s. Music Arranger: Steven Isserlis.
    • Cello World.
    • RCA RED SEAL.
    • 17.
  • Julie Cane

    Comes the Light

    Performer: Richard Pearce. Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: David Hill.
    • 大象传媒 recording.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Sextet in C minor, Op.40 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Christmas Overture (The Forest of Wild Thyme Op.74)

    Music Arranger: Sydney Baynes. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • The Night Before Christmas.
    • NAXOS.
    • 2.
  • Bohuslav Martin暖

    Merry Christmas 1941

    Performer: Giorgio Koukl.
    • Martinu: Complete Piano Music - 7.
    • Naxos.
    • 12.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Snow, Op.26 no.1

    Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Elgar: The Spirit of England.
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Symphonic Minutes Op.36

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Dohnanyi: Symphony no. 2: 大象传媒 Philharmonic/Bamert.
    • Chandos.
    • 1-5.
  • Richard Rodgers

    Cinderella Overture

    Orchestra: Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Conductor: John Mauceri.
    • Rodgers and Hammerstein Overtures.
    • Philips.
    • 9.
  • Pietro Baldassare

    Sonata in F major for cornett, strings and continuo

    Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Ensemble: I Musici.
    • Baroque Trumpet Concertos: Hakan Hardenberger/I Musici.
    • Philips.
    • 27-29.
  • Geirr Tveitt

    A Hundred Folk-tunes from Hardanger - Suite No.1 Nos. 1-3

    Orchestra: Stavanger Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Ole Kristian Ruud.
    • Geirr Tveitt: A Hundred Folk-tunes from Hardange, Suites 1 & 2.
    • BIS.
    • 16-18.
  • Ludvig Irgens-Jensen

    Altar

    Performer: Phyllis Spurr. Singer: Kathleen Ferrier.
    • Kathleen Ferrier vol.6.
    • Decca.
    • 19.
  • Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger

    Toccata arpeggiata

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • Anne Sofie Von Otter: Music for a While; Baroque Melodies.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 16.
  • Ann Burgess

    Comes the Light

    Performer: Helen Neeves. Performer: Christopher Bowen. Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Specially recorded in 2015 for the Radio 3 Carol Competition..
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D major for 4 violins, Op 3 No 1

    Ensemble: Brecon Baroque. Director: Rachel Podger.
    • L'estro Armonico.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 1.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in E flat Major, Op.23 no.6

    Performer: Freddy Kempf.
    • HYPERION.
    • 7.
  • Johan Svendsen

    Polonaise, Op 28 No 2

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Svendsen: Symphonies nos1 & 2: DNRSO/Dausgaard.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

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