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Breakfast Carol Competition shortlist

Live from 大象传媒 Maida Vale, Petroc Trelawny presents the 大象传媒 Singers performing the shortlisted entries in this year's Breakfast Carol Competition. Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk

Live from the 大象传媒 Maida Vale Studios in London, Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, announcing the six shortlisted entries in the 2019 Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition. This year, we challenged amateur composers to create new music for "Go To The Child", a poem by Imtiaz Dharker. The 大象传媒 Singers directed by Bob Chilcott perform the shortlisted carols live in the studio, and listeners are invited to vote for the overall winner. To vote for your favourite carol go to bbc.co.uk/radio3. Voting opens from 9am today and closes at 6pm on December 19th, with the winner being announced in Breakfast on Friday December 20th. Also featuring our musical Advent Calendar, the next of our American Portraits, music complementing Radio 3's series, 鈥楾he Way I See It鈥� and listener requests.

Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Thu 12 Dec 2019 06:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Noctuelles (Miroirs)

    Performer: Beatrice Rana.
    • WARNER.

  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    Alma Redemptoris mater - antiphon for 8 voices

    Ensemble: Ensemble Plus Ultra. Conductor: Michael Noone.
    • Luis de Victoria: Sacred Works.
    • Archiv.
    • 02.

  • Christopher Simpson

    Winter: Fancy

    Ensemble: Sirius VIOLS.
    • Simpson: The Four Seasons.
    • Deutsche Harmoni Mundi.
    • 01.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Winter 2 (The Four Seasons)

    Composer: Max Richter. Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Raphael Alpermann. Orchestra: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin. Conductor: Andr茅 de Ridder.
    • DG.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French Suite no.5 in G BWV.816 (Allemande; Courante)

    Performer: Richard Egarr.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Albert Roussel

    Divertissement, Op.6

    Performer: Catherine Cantin. Performer: Maurice Bourgue. Performer: Michel Portal. Performer: Amaury Wallez. Performer: Andr茅 Cazalet. Performer: Pascal Rog茅.
    • DECCA.

  • George Gershwin

    Lullaby

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Samuel Scheidt

    Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland

    Singer: Dorothee Mields. Singer: Paul Agnew. Ensemble: Lautten Compagney. Director: Wolfgang Katschner.
    • Deutsche HM.

  • Toshiko Akiyoshi

    Toshiko's Blues

    Performer: Toshiko Akiyoshi. Performer: Herb Ellis. Performer: Ray Brown. Performer: J.C. Heard.
    • Toshiko's Piano.
    • VERVE.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto-Suite in F major, TWV.54:F1 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Tempesta di Mare. Director: Gwyn Roberts. Director: Richard Stone.
    • Telemann: The Concerti-En-Suite.
    • Chandos.
    • 01.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Ritual Fire Dance

    Performer: Julius Katchen.
    • ABKCO.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major, K.297b (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: M眉nchener Kammerorchester. Ensemble: Les Vents Fran莽ais. Conductor: Daniel Giglberger.
    • Concertante!.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 116.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Sonatina, Op.19 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Judith Pearce. Performer: Ian Brown.
    • The Chamber Music of Malcolm Arnold, The Nash Ensemble, Judith Pearce....
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Arthur Bliss

    Antiphonal Fanfare

    Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • DECCA.

  • Breakfast Carol Competition 2019 commission

    • "Go to the Child", written and read by Imtiaz Dharker

  • Carol no.1

    • Chris Black

      Go to the Child

      Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Performer: Richard Pearce. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
      • Live performance.

  • Carol no.2

    • Tom Dobney

      Go to the Child

      Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Performer: Richard Pearce. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
      • Live performance.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.3`6

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Performer: Robert Woolley. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Handel: Concerti Grossi Op. 3 & Op.6.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 021.

  • Carol no.3

    • Paul Lewis Edwards

      Go to the Child

      Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Performer: Richard Pearce. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
      • Live performance.

  • Carol no.4

    • Anthony Gray

      Go to the Child

      Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
      • Live performance.

  • Eric Coates

    The Merrymakers

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Coates: Orchestral Works Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Childhood among the ferns (Before and After Summer, Op.16)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • NAXOS.

  • Carol no.5

    • Simon Hancock

      Go to the Child

      Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
      • Live performance.

  • Carol no.6

    • Dominic Veall

      Go to the Child

      Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
      • Live performance.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E minor, Op 44 No 2 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Arod.
    • Erato.

Broadcast

  • Thu 12 Dec 2019 06:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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