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Wednesday - Petroc's classical rise and shine

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 9 Dec 2020 06:30

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.6 Op.74 'Pathetique' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • The Tchaikovsky Project Vol. 1.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Jean Mouton

    Celeste beneficium

    Choir: Alamire. Director: David Skinner. Ensemble: English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble.
    • OBSIDIAN RECORDS.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Princesses' Khorovod (The Firebird)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Channel.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Partita no.4 in D major BWV.828 (Allemande)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Ole Bull

    Saeterjantans Sondag [Herd girl's Sunday]

    Music Arranger: 脴yvind Westby. Performer: Ole Edvard Antonsen. Ensemble: Kongelige norske marines musikkorps. Conductor: Ingar Bergby.
    • BIS.
  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Shepherd Girl's Dance (The Mountain King Op.37)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • World Encores: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Jansons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • Grace Williams

    Two Welsh Folk Songs: ii. Hwian hwi, Fy Mhlentyn Tlws (Hushaby My Pretty One)

    Singer: Jeremy Huw Williams.
    • My Last Duchess.
    • LORELT.
    • 12.
  • Grace Williams

    Y Bore Glas (The Early Dawn)

    Singer: Jeremy Huw Williams. Performer: Paula Fan.
    • My Last Duchess.
    • LORELT.
    • 24.
  • Peter Benoit

    Symphonic poem Op.45 (Song of the Bard)

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen. Director: Howard Shelley.
    • Dupont; Benoit: Piano Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 05.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56 'Scottish' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Pentatone.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    When all night long (Iolanthe)

    Librettist: W. S. Gilbert. Singer: Owen Brannigan. Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.
    • Gilbert and Sullivan: Iolanthe.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Herbert Chappell

    The Pallisers: Main Title

    Orchestra: United Kingdom Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Harry Rabinowitz.
    • BMG CLASSICS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Waft her, Angels (Jephtha)

    Singer: Mark Padmore. Ensemble: The English Concert. Director: Andrew Manze.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Sir George Macfarren

    Chevy Chace

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Victorian Concert Overtures.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    O Immanuel (7 Advent Antiphons)

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • GIMELL.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Sony.
  • Mort Dixon

    Pink Elephants

    Lyricist: Harry Woods. Performer: Joe Venuti. Ensemble: Joe Venuti-Eddie Lang Blue Five.
    • JSP RECORDS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet in E flat major, K 614 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Philip Dukes. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Mozart: String Quintets; Nash Ensemble, Philip Dukes.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Clarae stellae, scintillate, RV 625: Aria 'Clarae stellae, scintillate'

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Ensemble: Ensemble Artaserse.
    • Antonio Vivaldi - Piet脿.
    • Erato.
    • 1.
  • William Grant Still

    Land of romance (Africa)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony/In Memoriam/Africa (Symphonic Poem).
    • NAXOS.
    • 3.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Africa Fantasy Op.89

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chandos.
  • David Kellner

    Fantasia in A minor

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Romance (The Gadfly)

    Performer: Peter Thomas. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich.
    • Collins.

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