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Wednesday - Petroc's classical Christmas

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

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2 hours, 30 minutes

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Christmas Day 2019 06:30

Music Played

  • Trad.

    O come all ye faithful

    Performer: Music Box of Magdalen College, Oxford.
    • Carols for a Victorian Christmas.
    • The Gift of Music.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Vom Himmel hoch - canonic variations BWV.769 (Variation 1)

    Performer: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Breakfast Carol Competition 2019 winner

    • Chris Black

      Go to the Child

      Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Performer: Richard Pearce. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
      • 大象传媒 recording.
  • Nicolas Gombert

    La rose

    Ensemble: Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ - Cantata no. 91

    Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Singer: Katharine Fuge. Singer: Robin Tyson. Singer: James Gilchrist. Singer: Peter Harvey. Ensemble: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists.
    • Bach: Cantatas Vol.14: New York.
    • SDG.
    • 01.
  • Rued Langgaard

    String Quartet no.2, BVN 145 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nightingale String Quartet.
    • Langgaard: Works for String Quartet.
    • Dacapo.
    • 103.
  • Franz Xaver Gruber

    Silent Night

    Music Arranger: Graham Ross. Choir: DR Vocal Ensemble. Conductor: Graham Ross.
    • MANY THANKS TO OUR COLLEAGUES IN DANISH RADIO FOR THIS RECORDING..
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Barcarolle, Op.60

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
  • Anonymous Dutch 15th C

    Ons is een Kyndekyn gheboren

    Music Arranger: Philippe Malfeyt. Ensemble: Paul Rans Ensemble.
    • BRT.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Fantasia a 6 MB.48.35

    Performer: Susanna Pell. Performer: Asako Morikawa. Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Gibbons: Sonsorts for Viols: Phantasm.
    • Avie.
    • 01.
  • Trad.

    Sussex Carol

    Music Arranger: Sir David Willcocks. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Performer: Simon Preston. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.
    • DECCA.
  • Judith Weir

    Illuminare Jerusalem

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Performer: Peter Stevens. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • A Festival Of Nine Lessons and Carols.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in E flat major, D.929 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Alan Charlton

    Gaudete! Gaudete! Christus est natus

    Choir: Brussels Chamber Choir. Conductor: Helen Cassano.
    • Cloud and Mirrors.
    • Etcetera.
    • 08.
  • Richard Pearce

    Christmas Flourish

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Beatlecracker Suite (Miniature Overture [Help!])

    Composer: John Lennon. Composer: Paul McCartney. Music Arranger: Arthur Wilkinson. Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • British By Arrangement.
    • ASV.
    • 01.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Beatlecracker Suite (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy [Can't buy me love])

    Composer: John Lennon. Composer: Paul McCartney. Music Arranger: Arthur Wilkinson. Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • British By Arrangement.
    • ASV.
    • 03.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Beatlecracker Suite (Dance of the Reed Flutes [She loves you])

    Composer: John Lennon. Composer: Paul McCartney. Music Arranger: Arthur Wilkinson. Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • British By Arrangement.
    • ASV.
    • 06.
  • Trad.

    Von Himmel Hoch

    Singer: Dorothee Mields. Ensemble: Lautten Compagney. Director: Wolfgang Katschner.
    • Wie Schon Leuchtet Der Morgenstern.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 19.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C major, Op.33`3 'The Bird' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Donovan

    Catch The Wind

    Performer: Donovan.
    • Global Television.
  • Trad.

    Lamorna

    Music Arranger: Brenda Wootton. Singer: Brenda Wootton.
    • Way Down To Lamorna.
    • Sentinel.
    • 1.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Straussiana

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Korngold - Symphony in F sharp.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Breakfast Carol Competition 2019 winner

    • Chris Black

      Go to the Child

      Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Performer: Richard Pearce. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
      • 大象传媒 recording.
  • Alessandro Marcello

    Oboe Concerto in D minor

    Performer: Paolo Grazzi. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • TELDEC.
  • Martin Luther

    Fr氓n himlens h枚jd

    Music Arranger: Gunnar Idenstam. Singer: Ulrika Bod茅n. Performer: Gunnar Idenstam. Performer: Sandra Marteleur. Choir: S:t Jacobs kammark枚r. Conductor: Gary Graden.
    • Folkjul II: A Swedish Folk Christmas.
    • BIS.
    • 1701.
  • John Dowland

    Come again, sweet love doth now invite

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Xuefei Yang.
    • Songs from Our Ancestors.
    • GLOBE MUSIC.
    • 2.

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