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Friday - Petroc's classical alternative

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 1 May 2020 06:30

Music Played

  • William Byrd

    This sweet and merry month of May

    Singer: Clare Wilkinson. Ensemble: Rose Consort of Viols.
    • Four Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal.
    • Deux-Elles.
    • 16.
  • Antonio Bertali

    Ciacona

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Daniele Caminiti. Performer: Marcin 艢wi膮tkiewicz.
    • Perla Barocca.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in C major H.16.48

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • Haydn: Piano Works.
    • Teldec.
    • 8-9.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French Suite no.5 in G major BWV.816 (Gigue)

    Music Arranger: Peter Hurford. Performer: Peter Hurford. Performer: John Williams.
    • John Williams and Peter Hurford play Bach.
    • SONY.
    • 13.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio in D minor, Op.11 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Clara Schumann & Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Trios & String Quartet.
    • HYPERION.
    • 6.
  • Trad.

    Shepherd's Hey

    Performer: Richard Stapledon. Performer: Matt Stapledon.
    • Private recording.
  • James Hook

    The Lass of Richmond Hill

    Singer: Robert Tear. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • ARGO.
  • Claude Debussy

    Rondes de printemps (Images)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Debussy: Images etc..
    • EMI.
    • 8.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Viola da Gamba Sonata in G minor HWV.364b

    Performer: Aziz Ibrahim. Performer: Masumi Yamamoto.
    • Free Hands Records.
  • Trad.

    March of the King of Laois

    Music Arranger: Paddy Moloney. Ensemble: The Chieftains.
    • The Wide World Over.
    • RCA VICTOR.
    • 1.
  • Duke Ellington

    Azalea

    Performer: Louis Armstrong. Performer: Duke Ellington. Performer: Mort Herbert. Performer: Danny Barcelona.
    • The Great Summit: The Master Takes.
    • Roulette Jazz.
    • 17.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Kynance Cove

    Choir: Truro Cathedral Choir. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
    • Dobrinka Tabakova: Kynance Cove, On the South Downs, and Works for Choir.
    • Regent Records.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance no.21 in E minor

    Music Arranger: Joseph Joachim. Performer: Aaron Rosand. Performer: Hugh Sung.
    • Brahms/Joachim: 21 Hungarian Dances: Aaron Rosand.
    • Biddulph.
    • 21.
  • Friday Poem

    • 'Spring Quiet' by Christina Rossetti, read by Kerry Elkins

  • Edvard Grieg

    To the Spring (Lyric Pieces, Op.43)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.
  • Thomas Weelkes

    All people clap your hands

    Choir: Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum. Director: Benjamin Nicholas.
    • Weelkes - Sacred Choral Music.
    • Delphian.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and fugue in F BWV.856 (Well-Tempered Clavier, bk.1)

    Performer: Richard Egarr.
    • The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Jerome Kern

    The Folks Who live on the Hill

    Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II. Singer: Dave Fullerton. Performer: Roy Marsh. Ensemble: St茅phane Grappelli Quintet.
    • A Froggy Plays in London Town.
    • Saga.
  • Maurice Ravel

    La Valse

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Ravel: La Valse - Mussorgsky: Les Tableaux d'une exposition (Orch. Ravel).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 116.
  • Postcard from a Composer

    • Kuljit Bhamra

      It Rains Diamonds on Saturn

      Performer: Stephen Whibley.
  • Various Artists

    Sports Medley

    Music Arranger: Peter Willmott. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic.
    • 大象传媒 recording.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano concerto no.4 in G (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • Beethoven: The Piano Concertos.
    • HYPERION.
    • 6.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon duodecimi toni 脿 10, C.179

    Ensemble: Empire Brass Quintet and friends. Conductor: Rolf Smedvig.
    • Gabrieli: Empire brass quintet/Smedvig.
    • TELARC.
    • 001.
  • Radio 3 Breakfast Singalong

    • Trad.

      Scarborough Fair

      Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Music Arranger: Anna Tilbrook.

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