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Thursday - Petroc's classical picks

Join Petroc and the team for a special Christmas Eve edition of the Radio 3 Breakfast show, with listener requests.

Join Petroc and the team for a special Christmas Eve edition of the Radio 3 Breakfast show, with listener requests, a Bach cantata in our regular Bach Before 7 slot and Light in the Darkness: specially chosen pieces to greet the sunrise and to reflect 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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Christmas Eve 2020 06:30
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Music Played

  • Phil Cunningham

    The Gentle Light that Wakes Me

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Aly Bain. Performer: Phil Cunningham.
    • Homecoming: A Scottish Fantasy.
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • Clara Schumann

    Am Strande

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov. Singer: Benjamin Appl.

    Recorded 2 March 2016 at 大象传媒 Maida Vale Studio 1

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV132 'Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn'

    Singer: Brigitte Geller. Singer: Michael Chance. Singer: Jan Kobow. Singer: Dietrich Henschel. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Cantatas.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.
    • 12-17.

  • Trad.

    Silent Night

    Composer: Graham Fitkin. Performer: Ruth Wall.
    • GFR.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Peace on earth

    Performer: D贸nal McCann. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Singer: George Hill. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Errollyn Wallen: Peace on Earth.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No 40 in E flat major, H XVI 25

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.

  • Geraldine Mucha

    String Quartet No.1 - II. Dumka

    Performer: Stamicovo kvarteto.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.

  • Michael Praetorius

    Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern

    Singer: Dorothee Mields. Singer: Paul Agnew. Ensemble: Lautten Compagney. Director: Wolfgang Katschner.
    • Wie Schon Leuchtet Der Morgenstern.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 16.

  • Philip Lane

    Overture on French Carols

    Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra.
    • The Night Before Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in C major HWV.318 'Alexander's Feast'

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Concerto Grosso 'Alexander's Feast'.
    • ARCHIV.
    • 1-4.

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Bogoro虂ditse Dyevo

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary Service.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 18.

  • Trad.

    Away in a manger

    Music Arranger: Graham Fitkin. Performer: Ruth Wall.
    • GFR.

  • Claude Debussy

    Feux d'artifice (Preludes, Book 2)

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅.
    • ONYX.

  • Francis Poulenc

    O magnum mysterium (4 Motets pour le temps de No毛l)

    Choir: Cadenza. Director: Jenny Sumerling.
    • Voices of Joy: Cadenza.
    • Cadenza.
    • 1.

  • Alun Hoddinott

    Love Song (Folk-Song Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Welsh Classical Favourites: Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Penny.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 7.

  • Libby Larsen

    Aubade

    Performer: Eugenia Zukerman.
    • DELOS.

  • Bohuslav Martin暖

    Serenade No. 2 for strings

    Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • MUSIQUE D'ABORD.

  • Trad.

    The Holly & the Ivy

    Composer: Graham Fitkin. Performer: Ruth Wall.
    • GFR.

  • Deborah Cheetham

    Christmas With You

    Performer: ABC Classic Choir. Choir: Adelaide Chamber Singers. Orchestra: Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Northey. Conductor: Carl Crossin. Conductor: Nathan Aspinall.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    From Darkness to Light, Op 53

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Tadaaki Otaka.
    • BIS.

  • Traditional

    Jesus Christ the apple tree

    Music Arranger: Elizabeth Poston. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Director: Sir David Willcocks.
    • Christmas at King's.
    • EMI.
    • 13.

  • Harold Arlen

    Over the Rainbow

    Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Music Arranger: Anna Tilbrook.

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