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Thursday - Petroc's classical alternative

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

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 9 Dec 2021 06:30

Music Played

  • Richard Strauss

    Im Abendrot (Four Last Songs)

    Singer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: George Szell.
    • EMI.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in B flat major, Op.76`4 'Sunrise' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Mosaïques.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op.76 etc.
    • Naive.
    • 10.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Nocturne

    Performer: Andrew Matthews-Owen.
    • Halo, Music for Piano.
    • NIMBUS ALLIANCE.
    • 20.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Magnificat in D major BWV 243; Quia respexit humilitatem & Omnes generationes

    Singer: Nancy Argenta. Singer: Charles Brett. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Singer: David Thomas. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Josef Myslivecek

    Symphony in C major

    Orchestra: Concerto Köln. Conductor: Werner Ehrhardt.
    • Archiv.
  • César Franck

    Sonata in A major, M8 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Jeremy Denk.
    • French Impressions: Joshua Bell, Jeremy Denk.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Aaron King

    A Spotless Rose

    Choir: Luceat. Director: James Fellows.
    • Vidimus Gloriam Eius: A festival of Nine Lessons and Carols.
    • HYMNUS.
    • 11.
  • Louis Spohr

    Variations on a theme from 'Alruna'

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Robin O’Neill.
    • Spohr: Clarinet Concertos 1&2: Collins/Swedish Chamber Orchestra/O'Neill.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    4 Characteristic waltzes Op.22 (Valse de la reine)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Lyrita.
  • Anna Meredith

    Blackfriars

    Performer: Anna Meredith.
    • Moshi Moshi.
    • MOSHICD67.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin; Prelude

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Signum Classics.
    • SIGCD688.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Nymph (from ‘2 Songs’)

    Performer: Anna Netrebko. Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4778589.
  • George Frideric Handel

    But oh! Sad virgin that thy power (L'allegro, il penseroso, ed il moderato)

    Singer: Lynne Dawson. Orchestra: Ensemble orchestral de Paris. Conductor: John Nelson.
    • Erato.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Danse espagnole)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Monteux.
    • Philips.
  • Richard Rodgers

    Manhattan

    Lyricist: Lorenz Hart. Singer: Ella Fitzgerald.
    • Forever Ella.
    • Polydor.
  • Hamish MacCunn

    The Ship o' the Fiend

    Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • MacCunn: Land of the Mountain & the Flood: ´óÏó´«Ã½SSO, Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Thomas Adès

    Eight Songs from Isolation; Gyökér (Roots)

    Performer: Ricardo Gallardo. Singer: Katalin Károlyi. Conductor: Oliver Zeffman.
    • OLIVER ZEFFMAN LTD.
  • Pancho Vladigerov

    10 Impressions; No.2 Embrace

    Performer: Nadejda Vlaeva.
    • Hyperion.
  • Traditional English

    The Bellman's Song

    Performer: Dolly Collins. Singer: Shirley Collins.
    • The Classic Collection.
    • Highpoint Recordings.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Piano Concerto in G minor Op.33 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Dvořák / Schumann - Piano Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Antonio Bertali

    Sonata a 6 in E minor

    Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Himmelsmusik.
    • ERATO.
  • Émile Waldteufel

    L'Estudiantina, Op 191

    Conductor: Alfred Walter. Orchestra: Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • The Great Waltzes.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.

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