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Friday - Petroc's classical alternative

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

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 12 Feb 2021 06:30

Music Played

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Intermezzo (Suor Angelica)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • The Italian Intermezzo: Music Without Words: 大象传媒 Phil, Noseda.
    • Chandos.
  • Rebecca Clarke

    Daybreak

    Performer: Florence Cooke. Performer: Louise Craigie. Performer: Andrew Griffiths. Performer: James Hopkins. Singer: Alexandra Kidgell.
    • Clarke: Choral Music.
    • ASV.
    • 7.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Eternal Father, Op.135 no.2

    Choir: St Paul's Cathedral Choir. Director: John Scott.
    • Remembrance: The Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, John Scott.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Ernest Chausson

    Quartet in A major Op. 30 ; Mvt 2 Tres calme

    Performer: The Schubert Ensemble.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bereite dir, Jesu, noch itzo die Bahn (Cantata No 147)

    Singer: Ruth Holton. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J.S. Bach: Cantatas nos. 147 & 140: Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/Ga.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 012.
  • Chick Corea

    Children's Songs (No 6)

    Performer: Chick Corea.
    • Chick Corea: Children's Songs: Chick Corea.
    • ECM.
    • 6.
  • Josef Myslivecek

    Overture in A major for 2 horns, 2 oboes and strings (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Concerto K枚ln.
    • Archiv.
  • Ennio Morricone

    Cinema Paradiso (Love Theme - extract)

    Music Arranger: Nikoloz Rachveli. Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Maximilian Hornung. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Nikoloz Rachveli.
    • DG.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Dolly Suite

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • HYPERION.
  • Toby Young

    Seven Trumpets

    Singer: Elizabeth Nurse. Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford. Performer: David Bednall. Director: Owen Rees.
    • A New Heaven.
    • SIGNUM RECORDS.
    • 07.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Courante, from Keyboard Suite in A major, HWV 426

    Performer: Laurence Cummings.
    • Handel: 8 'Great' Suites for Keyboard.
    • Somm.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D 965

    Singer: Nancy Argenta. Performer: Eric Hoeprich. Performer: Melvyn Tan.
    • Schubert: Songs: Nancy Argenta/Melvyn Tan.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 23.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe, read by Harry Livingstone

  • Taraf de Ha茂douks

    Moldavian Shepherd's Dance

    Ensemble: Taraf de Ha茂douks.
    • Crammed Discs.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op.28

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • EMI.
  • Charles Williams

    Rhythm on the rails for orchestra

    Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
  • Earl Wild

    I got Rhythm (no.1 from 7 Virtuoso etudes after Gershwin)

    Performer: Earl Wild.
  • Anonymous

    Saltarello No.1

    Ensemble: Ensemble Unicorn.
    • NAXOS.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Advance Democracy

    Choir: Truro Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
    • REGENT.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major, Op 73, 'Emperor' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Carl Czerny

    Symphony no.6 in G minor (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Grzegorz Nowak.
    • SWR Musik.
  • Chick Corea

    The Gardens

    Performer: Chick Corea.
  • Lilian Elkington

    Out of the Mist

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Elgar - The Spirit of England etc..
    • Dutton Laboratories.
    • 7.

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