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Friday - Petroc's classical picks

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring Bach's St John Passion for Good Friday, the Friday Poem and listeners' requests.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 10 Apr 2020 06:30

Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Sonata, Op.120`1 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestrator: Luciano Berio. Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Berio: Orchestral Realisations.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Frederick Delius

    The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.
    • EMI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    St John Passion (conclusion)

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Choir: Polyphony. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Gustav Holst

    Brook Green Suite H.190

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Emilia Giuliani-Guglielmi

    Prelude Op.46 no.1

    Performer: Jamie Akers.
    • dramaMUSICA.
  • Franz Liszt

    Liebestr盲ume (Notturno no.3 in A flat major)

    Performer: Clifford Curzon.
    • Decca.
  • Percy Grainger

    Shallow Brown

    Singer: Lynette Alc谩ntara. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Country Gardiner Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • The music of Percy Grainger: Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
    • 5.
  • Trad.

    Trumpet Hornpipe (Captain Pugwash Theme)

    Performer: Tom Edmondson.
    • 100 Greatest TV Themes Vol 2.
    • Silva Screen.
    • 19.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Rose Garden (The Sea Hawk)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • The Film Music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold: 大象传媒 Phil / Gamba.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    April 'Snowdrop' (The Seasons, Op.37b)

    Performer: Yefim Bronfman.
    • SONY.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no. 6 in F major, Op.68 'Pastoral' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Marek Janowski.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6, Opp. 67 & 68.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 2.
  • Duke Ellington

    The Giggling Rapids (The River - suite)

    Orchestrator: Ron Collier. Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Duke Ellington - Black, Brown and Beige.
    • Naxos.
    • 10.
  • Friday Poem

    • 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' by William Wordsworth, read by Ralph Fiennes

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Spring (3 Botticelli Pictures)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 14.
  • John Rutter

    O Clap Your Hands

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • COLLEGIUM RECORDS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Sonata in A minor D.821 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich. Performer: Benjamin Britten.
    • Cello Sonata.
    • DECCA.
    • 3.
  • John Foulds

    Sicilian Aubade

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • J Foulds, Keltic Suite: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra/Corp.
    • Epoch.
    • 5.
  • Charles Gounod

    To a Nightingale

    Singer: Susan Graham. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • ONYX.
  • Richard Rodgers

    Wedding Processional (The Sound of Music)

    Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II. Singer: Evadne Baker. Singer: Anna Lee. Singer: Portia Nelson. Singer: Marni Nixon. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Irwin Kostal.
    • RCA.
  • Gerard Schurmann

    The Gambler Suite (A New Beginning)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Antonio Lotti

    Crucifixus for 8 voices

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Director: Martin Baker.
    • AD FONTES.
  • Michel Corrette

    Le Phenix Concerto

    Performer: Kim Walker. Performer: Roger Birnstingl. Performer: Carlo Colombo. Performer: Cl茅na Stein. Performer: Darryl Nixon.
    • Sonates Baroques.
    • GALLO.
    • 5.
  • Robert Schumann

    Im wundersch枚nen Monat Mai (Dichterliebe)

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Performer: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Grosse Stimmen: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.

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