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Christmas Day - Petroc Trelawny

Christmas Day Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny, including the winning entry in the Breakfast Carol Competition. Plus your musical requests and suggestions.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

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Christmas Day 2017 06:30

Music Played

  • Bernard Trafford

    2017 Breakfast Carol Competition WINNING ENTRY Sir Christemas

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Singer: Olivia Robinson. Conductor: David Hill.
    • 大象传媒 recording.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 16 in C major, K 545

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Saviour of the World is Born

    Music Arranger: Onyx Brass. Ensemble: Onyx Brass.
    • Canite Tuba, Music for Advent and Christmas.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 9.
  • 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.
  • John Rutter

    Shepherds pipe carol

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Collegium.
  • Leroy Anderson

    Sleigh Ride

    Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler.
    • DG.
  • Michel Corrette

    Les six symphonies de No毛l (Sinfonia No 1)

    Ensemble: La Fantasia. Director: Rien Voskuilen.
    • Corrette: Le Six SYmphonies de Noel.
    • BRILLIANT.
    • 1-4.
  • Herbert Howells

    Here is this Little Door

    Performer: 大象传媒 Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Neil Ferris.
    • 大象传媒 recording.
  • 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.
  • Traditional

    Jesus Christ the apple tree

    Music Arranger: Elizabeth Poston. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Director: Sir David Willcocks.
    • Christmas at King's.
    • EMI.
    • 13.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Roses from the South Op.388

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Linos Ensemble. Performer: Ryoko Morooka.
    • Capriccio.
  • Claude Debussy

    The Snow is Dancing (Children's Corner)

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • Debussy: Preludes/Children's Corner: Ogawa.
    • BIS.
    • 20.
  • 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.
  • Michael Flanders and Donald Swann

    Slow train

    Ensemble: Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.
    • Complete Flanders and Swann.
    • EMI.
    • 12.
  • Vivien Ellis

    Coronation Scot (Paul Temple)

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics: The New London Orchestra/Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Gloria (Missa Puer natus est nobis)

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Puer Natus Est, Tudor Music For Advent and Christmas: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.
  • John Ireland

    The Holy Boy

    Performer: Philip Brunelle.
    • Serenade for a Christmas Night: Philip Brunelle.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 7.
  • Michael Praetorius

    Resonet in laudibus; Quem pastores laudavere (Christmas Mass)

    Choir: Boy's Choir of Roskilde Cathedral. Choir: Congregational Choir of Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark. Performer: Timothy Roberts. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Archiv.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No.1 in G minor, "Winter Dreams" Op.13 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Onyx.
  • Bernard Trafford

    2017 Breakfast Carol Competition WINNING ENTRY Sir Christemas

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Singer: Olivia Robinson. Conductor: David Hill.
    • 大象传媒 recording.
  • 脡mile Waldteufel

    The Skaters Waltz

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • With love from Vienna: Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 2.
  • John Gardner

    Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Hodie - An English Christmas Collection.
    • Coro.
    • 25.
  • Ward Swingle

    A visit from St Nicholas

    Choir: Elmer Iseler Singers. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • Philips.

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