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Tuesday - Petroc's classical picks

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, including two shortlisted carols from the Carol Competition and 'Light in the Darkness'.

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, including listener requests, two shortlisted carols from the Carol Competition and Light in the Darkness: a guest from a country that lies close to the Arctic reflects on the special quality of light that鈥檚 associated with this time of year as part of Radio 3鈥檚 Light in the Darkness season, illuminating winter.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 15 Dec 2020 06:30

Music Played

  • Thomas Weelkes

    O care thou wilt dispatch mee

    Music Arranger: Mark Kroll. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • Canadian Brass: English Renaissance Music.
    • CBS.
    • 18.
  • Friedrich der Gro脽e

    Sonata in E minor

    Performer: Barthold Kuijken. Performer: Bob van Asperen.
    • From the Court of Frederick the Great.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10-12.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D Major, Op.20 No.4 II. Un poco adagio e affettuoso

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 20 Nos. 4-6.
    • BIS.
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV61: Recitative: Siehe, ich stehe; Aria: Offne dich; Amen

    Singer: Dietrich Henschel. Singer: Joanne Lunn. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SDG.
  • Edward Elgar

    Sun Dance (The Wand of Youth Suite no.1)

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Elgar: Wand of Youth Suites No.1 & 2: New Zealand SO/Judd.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Michel鈥怰ichard de Lalande

    Miserator et misericors

    Singer: No茅mi Rime. Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Director: William Christie.
    • Petits Motets.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 13.
  • Georges Bizet

    Petite Suite 'Jeux d'enfants'

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Bizet: Symphony in C etc.: Concertgebouw Orchestra/Haitink.
    • Philips.
    • 5.
  • LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS

    Inge Thomson on Light in the Darkness on Fair Isle

  • Trad.

    Christmas Day I`Da Mornin

    Performer: Kevin Henderson. Performer: Mattias Perez. Performer: Nina perez.
    • Kevin Henderson Music.
  • Margaret Hubicki

    Serenade (Goladon Suite for piano duet)

    Performer: James Kirby. Performer: Frederick Stocken.
    • Chandos.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Jennifer Pike. Performer: Martin Roscoe.
  • Franz Schubert

    Allegretto in C Minor, D. 915

    Performer: Ll欧r Williams.
    • Ll欧r Williams: Schubert, Vol. 7.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 9.
  • Chris Westbrook

    Christmas Carol

    Performer: Richard Pearce. Music Arranger: Clare Wheeler. Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker Suite: Overture

    Performer: Duke Ellington. Music Arranger: Duke Ellington. Ensemble: Duke Ellington Orchestra.
    • Columbia.
  • Michael Ernst Heinsius

    Sinfonia in F major, Op.2 no.5

    Orchestra: Orchestra "Van Wassenaer". Director: Makoto Akatsu.
    • Heinsius/Lentz: Orchestra Van Wassenaer.
    • BIS.
    • 19-21.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Fair moon to thee I sing (H.M.S. Pinafore)

    Librettist: W. S. Gilbert. Singer: Thomas Allen. Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Sullivan, A: HMS Pinafore.
    • Telarc.
    • 18-19.
  • Emilie Mayer

    Piano Concerto in B flat - 3rd mvt: Allegro

    Performer: Ewa Kupiec. Orchestra: Neubrandenburger Philharmonie. Conductor: Sebastian Tewinkel.
    • Capriccio.
  • James Walton

    Christmas Carol

    Music Arranger: Clare Wheeler. Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Helios Overture

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • DACAPO.
  • Charles Ives

    Those evening bells

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Gerald Finley.
    • Romanzo di Central Park, songs by Charles Ives.
    • HYPERION.
    • 22.
  • Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

    Quis audivit unquam tale

    Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia.
    • I Vespri Natalizi (1650).
    • Tactus.
    • 004.

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