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Wednesday - Petroc's Boxing Day classical mix

Petroc Trelawny presents a Boxing Day edition of Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Boxing Day 2018 06:30

Music Played

  • Sir Stephen Hough

    Musical Jewellry Box

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's New Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Trad.

    Good King Wenceslas

    Music Arranger: Phil Redding. Ensemble: The Chapter House Choir.
    • Christmas With The Chapter House Choir.
    • GUILD.
    • 13.
  • Robert Schumann

    Adagio and Allegro in A flat major, Op 70

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: D茅nes V谩rjon.
    • HYPERION.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV.248); Pt.2, nos.19 - 21

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach: Mass in B minor.
    • Archiv.
    • 19.
  • Andr茅 Caplet

    Quintet for piano & winds, Op.8 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais.
    • Les Vents Fran莽ais - Winds & Piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 111.
  • Colin Matthews

    Reflets dans l'eau (Images, set 1)

    Composer: Claude Debussy. Conductor: Gustavo Gimeno. Orchestra: Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Debussy: La mer, Ib茅ria, Images & 6 脡pigraphes antiques.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 301.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat major (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.
    • Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartets Op. 13 in A minor, Op. 80 in F minor:.
    • Virgin.
    • 8.
  • E虅riks Es虒envalds

    Stars

    Choir: VOCES8.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Felicissima quest'alma (Apollo e Dafne)

    Singer: Anna Prohaska. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Director: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Anna Prohaska - Enchanted Forest.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 5.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight'

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • In The Night.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2-4.
  • Boris Ord

    Adam lay y-bounden

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • A Festival Of Nine Lessons and Carols.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.
  • Robert Donat reads "I sing of a maiden" (Private recording)

  • Ian Shaw

    I Sing of a Maiden

    Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Performer: Anne Denholme. Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Advent Live.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1601.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    A Musical Snuffbox Op.32

    Orchestrator: Charles Woodhouse. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitri Georgievich Kitayenko.
    • Bolero - French & Russian Orchestral Favorites: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Ki.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Trad.

    Good King Wenceslas

    Performer: Played on a Victorian Musical Box.
    • SAYDISC.
  • The Beatles

    Good King Wenceslas

    • The Official Beatles Fanclub: The Christmas Records. 1: The Beatles' Christmas R.
    • Apple Records.
    • 1.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso in G minor Op.6`8 'Christmas night'

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • Corelli: The Complete Concerti Grossi.
    • ZIG ZAG.
    • 30-34.
  • William Byrd

    Lullaby, my sweet little baby

    Conductor: Geoffroy Jourdain. Ensemble: Les Cris de Paris.
    • Melancholia.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 117.
  • Fredrik Sixten

    Mary's Lullaby (Silent Night)

    Singer: Emma Walshe. Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
  • William Byrd

    Lullaby, my sweet little baby

    Ensemble: Les Cris de Paris. Conductor: Geoffroy Jourdain.
    • Melancholia.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 110.
  • George Gershwin

    I Got Rhythm

    Performer: Django Reinhardt. Performer: St茅phane Grappelli. Ensemble: Quintette du Hot Club de France.
    • Regis.
  • Anon.

    The Little Turtle Dove

    Singer: Ian Bostridge.
    • The English Songbook.
    • EMI.
    • 24.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Geme la torterella (La finta giardiniera)

    Music Arranger: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn; Bach: Cello Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Hector Berlioz

    The Shepherds' Farewell (L'enfance du Christ)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • LSO Live.
  • Stephen Sondheim

    Anyone can Whistle

    Singer: Lee Remick. Orchestra: Anyone Can Whistle Orchestra.
    • Masterworks Broadway.
  • Maurice Ravel

    S茅r茅nade grotesque

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Giovanni Battista Vitali

    Rugiero

    Performer: St茅phanie de Failly. Ensemble: Clematis Ensemble.
    • Ricercar.
  • Giovanni Battista Vitali

    Bergamasca per il violino

    Performer: St茅phanie de Failly. Ensemble: Clematis Ensemble.
    • Ricercar.

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