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Thursday - Petroc Trelawny

Petroc Trelawny presents Breakfast, with the daily J S Bach Prelude and fugue from Book 2 of the Well-Tempered Clavier, plus listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

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.7 in E flat major, BWV.876. Also including listener requests and the Breakfast Advent Calendar.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 7 Dec 2017 06:30

Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Jeux de vagues (La mer)

    Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Debussy: La Mer: Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Super flumina Babylonis (Psalm 137), a 8

    Choir: Ensemble Plus Ultra. Conductor: Michael Noone.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Roses from the South Op.388

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Linos Ensemble. Performer: Ryoko Morooka.
    • Capriccio.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    'Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland', BWV 659

    Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni. Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • DG.
  • Gustav Holst

    Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (The Planets, Op 32)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Holst: The Planets: New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • Benjamin Britten

    The Birds

    Singer: Jennifer Johnston. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • ONYX.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in F major Op.6`9

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Handel: Twelve Concerti Grossi op. 6.
    • L’OISEAU LYRE.
    • 17-22.
  • Joseph Canteloube

    La delaissado (Chants d'Auvergne)

    Singer: Renée Fleming. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sebastian Lang-Lessing.
    • Guilty Pleasures.
    • DECCA.
    • 10.
  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    String Quartet No 3 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Silesian String Quartet.
    • Chandos.
  • Anonymous (17th-century Icelandic)

    Jesu, min Morgunstjarna (Jesus, my morning star)

    Music Arranger: Anna Maria Friman. Performer: Arve Henriksen. Ensemble: Trio Mediæval.
    • ECM.
  • Louis Vierne

    Organ Symphony no.1 in D major Op.14 (6th mvt)

    Performer: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • PRIORY.
  • George Butterworth

    The cuckoo (11 Folk-songs from Sussex)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • George Butterworth, Songs from A Shropshire Lad: Williams / Burnside.
    • Naxos.
    • 25.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Well-Tempered Clavier: No. 7: Prelude and Fugue In E flat major, BWV 876

    Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier.
    • Olympia.
    • 7.
  • Richard Wagner

    Träume (Wesendonck Lieder)

    Music Arranger: Felix Mottl. Singer: Cheryl Studer. Ensemble: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in D major, H.15.24

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin (Kogda bi zhizn domashnim krugom)

    Singer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 15.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in E flat, Op 9 No 2

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • DECCA.
    • 2.
  • Miles Davis

    Blue In Green

    • COLUMBIA.
    • 5.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65

    Music Arranger: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Anon.

    En la macarenita

    Music Arranger: Nigel Short. Choir: Tenebrae.
    • SIGNUM.

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