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Wednesday - Petroc Trelawny

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. This month we are featuring a daily prelude and fugue from Book 2 of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, and today's is No.6 in D minor, BWV.875. Also including listener requests and the Breakfast Advent Calendar.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 6 Dec 2017 06:30

Music Played

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Humoresque in G flat major, Op.101`7

    Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Performer: Ayami Ikeba. Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Einojuhani Rautavaara

    Cantus Arcticus Op.61 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • Rautavaara: Angel of Light etc..
    • BIS.
    • 11.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Ballade no.1 in G minor Op.23

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Perahia Plays Chopin.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Badin茅rie (Orchestral Suite no.2, BWV.1067)

    Performer: Barthold Kuijken. Ensemble: La Petite Bande. Conductor: Sigiswald Kuijken.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Symphony No 2 in B minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Sunrise, Op 37 No 3

    Singer: Karita Mattila. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Grieg/Sibelius: Songs: Karita Mattila.
    • Warner.
    • 2.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Varen flyktar hastigt [Spring is flying], Op.13 no.4

    Singer: Karita Mattila. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Grieg/Sibelius: Songs: Karita Mattila.
    • Warner.
    • 5.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    H盲nsel und Gretel (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • German Operetta Overtures: Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 5.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    I know that my Redeemer liveth

    Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Director: Owen Rees.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in D major Op.70`1 'Ghost' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Guy Johnston. Performer: Tom Poster. Performer: Magnus Johnston.
    • Kings College.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    West Side Story (Something's Coming)

    Singer: Jimmy Bryant. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Johnny Green.
    • West Side Story: Original Soundtrack.
    • Sony.
    • 4.
  • Gustav Holst

    Mars, the Bringer of War (The Planets, Op 32)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Holst: The Planets: New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker Op.71 (Coffee 'Arabian Dance')

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.
  • Traditional Finnish

    A Kaleva Introduction

    Performer: Maija Makela. Performer: Mari Pousi. Choir: Tapiolan kuoro. Conductor: Kari Ala-P枚ll盲nen.
    • Rainbow Sounds.
    • ONDINE.
    • 001.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Well-Tempered Clavier: No. 6: Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 875

    Performer: Edwin Fischer.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier.
    • EMI.
    • 11.
  • David Baker

    Jazz Suite '3 Ethnic dances' (Slow Drag)

    Performer: Alan Balter. Orchestra: Akron Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alan Balter.
    • American Voices: The African-American Composers' Project.
    • TELARC.
    • 8.
  • Franz Schubert

    Der M眉ller und der Bach (Die Sch枚ne M眉llerin D.795)

    Singer: Mark Padmore. Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Franz Schubert, Die Schone Mullerin: Padmore/Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 19.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia, Op 26

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • The Sound of Sibelius: Lahti SO, Vanska.
    • Bis.
    • 10.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Saint Nicholas (The Birth of Nicholas)

    Singer: David Hemmings. Singer: Peter Pears. Choir: Girls' Choir of Sir John Leman School, Beccles. Choir: Boys' Choir of Ipswich School Preparatory Department. Performer: Ralph Downes. Orchestra: Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • DECCA.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso in C major, Op 6 No 10

    Ensemble: The Brandenburg Consort. Director: Roy Goodman.
    • HYPERION.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Barcarolle (The Tales of Hoffmann)

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: St茅phanie d'Oustrac. Choir: Ch艙ur des Musiciens du Louvre. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Anne Sofie von Otter sings Offenbach.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • York Bowen

    3 Serious dances Op.51 (no.2)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.
  • Taneli Kuusisto

    A Finnish Prayer

    Music Arranger: Jorma Panula. Orchestra: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jorma Panula.
    • FINNISH ORCHESTRAL FAVOURITES.
    • Naxos.
    • 019.

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