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Wednesday - Petroc's classical alternative

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring Countdown to Spring and listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 10 Mar 2021 06:30

Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet (Le tombeau de Couperin)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in A major, Op 20 No 6 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Chandos.
  • Judith Bingham

    The Drowned lovers for mezzo-soprano and chorus

    Performer: Martha McLorinan. Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Like to the Lark.
    • Chandos.
    • 06.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue Bird (8 Partsongs Op.119)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 15.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fantasia 'Komm, heiliger Geist', BWV 651

    Performer: Ton Koopman.
    • Teldec.
  • Louis Spohr

    Spring (Symphony No 9 in B minor, Op 143, 'Die Jahreszeiten')

    Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Hyperion.
  • Patricia Barber

    Romanesque

    Singer: Patricia Barber. Performer: John McLean.
    • Cafe Blue.
    • Premonition.
    • 4.
  • Patricia Barber

    Wood is a Pleasant Thing to Think About

    Singer: Patricia Barber.
    • Blue Note.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 27 In E Minor Op. 90

    Performer: Charles Rosen.
    • The Complete Columbia And Epic Album Collection.
    • 1-2.
  • Gustav Holst

    Uranus, the Magician (The Planets, Op 32)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: London Philharmonic Choir. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra - Holst The Planets - Vladimir Jurowski Conductor.
    • LPO.
  • Robert Schumann

    Mondnacht, Op 39 No 5

    Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau.
    • Grosse Stimmen: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 16.
  • Frederick Delius

    The March of Spring (North Country Sketches, No 4)

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Frederick Delius: Orchestral Music.
    • HALLE.
    • 7.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No.10 in F major

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • DECCA.
  • SPRING POEM

    'Wild Garlic' from Tongues of Fire (Cape) by Sean Hewitt, read by Colin Tierney

  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    As Tres Marias

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Madamina, il catalogo 猫 questo (Don Giovanni)

    Singer: Ildebrando d鈥橝rcangelo. Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Mozart: Arias: Ildebrando D'Arcangelo.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in E major, Op.116 no.4

    Performer: Barry Douglas.
    • Brahms: Works for Solo Piano, Volume 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Concert Fantasy on Carmen, Op 18

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.
    • Sarasate/Falla/Granados/Halffter/Albeniz: Itzhak Perlman.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Heinrich Bach

    Sonata no. 2 in F major

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Bachiana: Music by the Bach Family.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 8.
  • Dorothy Rudd Moore

    A Little Whimsy

    Performer: Maria Corley.
    • SOULSCAPES: PIANO MUSIC BY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN.
    • Albany.
    • 14.
  • Irving Mills

    Moonlight Fiesta

    Composer: Juan Tizol. Performer: Clark Terry. Performer: Thelonious Monk. Ensemble: Clark Terry Quartet.
    • In Orbit.
    • RIVERSIDE.
    • 7.
  • Jean Fran莽aix

    Octet (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: The Gaudier Ensemble.
    • Francaix - A Huit; Divertissement; Clarinet Quintet.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Giulio Caccini

    Amarilli mia bella

    Singer: Beniamino Gigli. Orchestra: Unnamed Orchestra. Conductor: Lawrance Collingwood.
    • NIMBUS.
  • Claude Debussy

    Rondes de printemps (Images)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

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