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Friday - Petroc's classical commute

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

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 12 Mar 2021 06:30

Music Played

  • Michael Tippett

    Dance, clarion air (A Garland for the Queen)

    Choir: Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford. Director: Stephen Darlington.
    • Tippett: Choral Works.
    • Nimbus.
    • 1.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Monteux.
    • BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Simple and Flowing (5 Postcards)

    Performer: Anton Miller. Performer: Rita Porfiris.
    • Five Postcards.
    • CD Baby.
    • 9.
  • Anon.

    惭补谤颈锄谩辫补濒辞蝉

    Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar. Singer: B茅atrice Mayo-Felip.
    • NAIVE.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Valet will ich dir geben BWV 736

    Performer: Gustav Leonhardt.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Carl Heinrich Graun

    Concerto in D major for horn, oboe d'amore and continuo

    Performer: Ursula Paludan Monberg. Performer: Katharina Spreckelsen. Performer: Andrew Skidmore. Performer: Jonathan Cohen. Director: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Hyperion.
  • Mieczyslaw Weinberg

    The Rocking Child, Op.110: iv. Rocking the Cradle

    Singer: Channa Malkin. Performer: Artem Belogurov.
    • TRPTK.
  • Antonio Restucci

    Coihues

    Performer: Jos茅 Antonio Escobar.
    • Guitar Music of Chile.
    • Naxos.
    • 004.
  • Pedro El铆as Guti茅rrez

    Alma Llanera

    Performer: John Williams. Performer: Alfonso Montes.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin (Waltz)

    Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • EMI.
  • Alba Tressina

    Anima mea liquefacta est

    Choir: Cappella Artemisia. Director: Candace Smith.
    • TACTUS.
  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Farnham Festival Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • British Light Overtures 2: RBS, Sutherland.
    • White Line.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E major, RV 269, 'Spring'

    Ensemble: Europa Galante. Performer: Fabio Biondi.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 1.
  • Tom Lehrer

    Poisoning Pigeons in the Park (1959 live performance)

    • Warner Archives Rhino.
  • William Byrd

    The March before the Battle [The Earl of Oxford's march]

    Music Arranger: Elgar Howarth. Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • La Battaglia: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • Decca.
    • 24.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    The Trees by Philip Larkin, ready by Colin Tierney

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    When thy sweet glances fall on me (Cypresses)

    Ensemble: Prague String Quartet.
    • DG.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Polonaise in A flat major, Op.53 'Eroica'

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin.
    • RCA.
  • Jonathan Dove

    In beauty may I walk

    Choir: Wells Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Matthew Owens.
    • HYPERION.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.92 in G major 'Oxford' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 91 & 92: Rene Jacobs.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.
  • Franz Schubert

    Der Neugierige, D 795, No 6 (Die sch枚ne M眉llerin)

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Singer: Mark Padmore.
    • Franz Schubert, Die Schone Mullerin: Padmore/Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 6.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Spring (3 Botticelli Pictures)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • William Lloyd Webber

    Frensham Pond

    Performer: Antony Pay. Performer: Ian Brown.
    • William Lloyd Webber - Piano music, chamber music and songs.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Cole Porter

    C'est Magnifique

    Singer: Eartha Kitt. Orchestra: Orchestra.
    • Columbia.
  • Claude Debussy

    Preludes - book 2: no.12; Feux d'artifice

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Debussy: Preludes II.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 12.
  • 脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Sonata No.5 for violin and continuo in G major

    Performer: David Plantier. Performer: Daniela Dolci.
    • PAN CLASSICS.

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