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Thursday - Petroc's classical alarm call

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 18 Mar 2021 06:30

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Elegischer Gesang, Op.118

    Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Suite no.2 Op.17 (Romance)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Philips.
  • Jennifer Higdon

    Quiet Art (Impressions)

    Ensemble: Cypress String Quartet.
    • Naxos.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No 29, 'Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir'

    Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe. Singer: Mark Padmore.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Entr茅e de Polymnie (Les Bor茅ades)

    Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
    • Enfers.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 23.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Soupir (3 Poems of Stephane Mallarme)

    Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Ensemble: Unnamed ensemble.
    • ELEKTRA NONESUCH.
  • James Oswald

    Airs for the Seasons (Spring: Crocus)

    Performer: Matthew Dixon. Ensemble: Broadside Band. Director: Jeremy Barlow.
    • Airs for The Seasons.
    • Dorian.
    • 34-35.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • WARNER.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    In ecclesiis 脿 14

    Choir: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • 1612 Italian Vespers: I Fagiolini/Robert Hollingworth.
    • Decca.
    • 17.
  • Antoine Renard

    Le temps de cerises

    Performer: Charles Trenet.
    • The Extraordinary Garden: The Very Best Of Charles Trenet.
    • Parlophone.
    • 14.
  • George Frideric Handel

    O ruddier than the cherry (Acis and Galatea)

    Singer: Christopher Purves. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Handel's Finest Arias for Base Voice.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Franz Liszt

    Sonetto 123 del Petrarca (Anne虂es de pe虁lerinage - 2me annee, Italie)

    Performer: Ll欧r Williams.
    • LISZT: PIANO WORKS.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
    • 5.
  • Robert Browne Hall

    Death or Glory

    Orchestra: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: John Anderson.
    • Brassed Off: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 1.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Dance of the Tumblers (The Snow Maiden)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Orchestral Suites.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Vier Lieder, Op 92; No 3, 'Abendlied'

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Felicity Lott. Singer: Ann Murray. Singer: Antony Rolfe Johnson. Singer: Richard Jackson.
    • Voices of the Night.
    • Hyperion.
    • 21.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in D, Hob XV:24

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • HYPERION.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sinfonia (Cantata BWV.29)

    Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent. Performer: Herman Stinders. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Bird Circuit (Digital Bird Suite, Op 15)

    Performer: Manuela Wiesler. Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • BIS.
  • Clara Schumann

    Abendfeier in Venedig (3 Part-songs)

    Ensemble: Studio Vocale Karlsruhe. Conductor: Werner Pfaff.
    • Schumann - Die Chorwerke Vol. 2.
    • EBS.
    • 1.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in C minor, Op.23 No.7

    Performer: Dame Moura Lympany.
    • ERATO.
  • Arnold Bax

    Maenads (Spring Fire)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bax: Spring Fire etc.: RPO / Handley.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

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