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Friday - Petroc's classical alternative

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

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 22 Apr 2022 06:30

Music Played

  • Cheryl Frances-Hoad

    Invocatio

    Ensemble: Wihan Quartet.
    • Kol Nidrei: Elegy For Pamela.
    • Nimbus Alliance.
    • 2.
  • Benjamin Godard

    Suite de trois morceaux for flute and piano, Op 116

    Performer: Edward Beckett. Orchestra: London Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Ross Pople.
    • Fantasie: Romantic French flute music: Beckett/London Festival Orch/Pople.
    • Black Box.
    • 7.
  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major D.803 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Bruno Schneider. Performer: Dag Jensen. Performer: Knut Eric Sundquist. Ensemble: Modigliani Quartet.
    • Schubert: Octet.
    • Mirare.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    In meinem Gott bin ich erfreut (Cantata No 162)

    Singer: Sara Mingardo. Singer: Christoph Genz. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Cantatas: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 5.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Rondo in C minor, Op 1

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 6.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Rhapsody

    Ensemble: Endellion Quartet.
    • Britten: Chamber & Instrumental Works.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Gary Schocker

    Memory of Trees

    Performer: Yolanda Kondonassis.
    • Five Minutes for Earth.
    • Azica Records.
    • 7.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    The Yellow Cake Review: I. Farewell to Stromness

    Performer: David Le Page. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan. Conductor: Daniele Rosina.
    • Labyrinths.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1501.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 36. "How beautiful are the feet"

    Lyricist: Charles Jennens. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Handel: Messiah.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 36.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Sérénade mélancolique, Op.26

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • Pentatone.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Morgenblätter - Waltz Op.279

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • RCA LIVING STEREO.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    Primavera by Robin Robertson, read by Cian Murchu

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Minuetto I

    Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Puccini: Orchestral Music.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Berlioz: Te Deum, Op. 22 - Christe, rex gloriae

    Performer: Martin Haselböck. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Choir: London Philharmonic Choir. Choir: Wooburn Singers. Choir: St. Albans School Choir. Choir: Haberdasher's Aske's School Boy's Choir. Choir: Southend Boys’ Choir. Choir: Desborough School Choir. Choir: The Choir Of Forest School, Winnersh. Choir: Choirboys Of High Wycombe Parish Church. Orchestra: European Community Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Berlioz: Te Deum.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Borodin: String Quartet No.2 in D - 1. Allegro

    Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.
    • Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No.1 / Borodin: String Quartet No.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 11 in A major, K 331 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Ramah

    Performer: Ionel Manciu. Performer: Dominic Degavino.
    • ´óÏó´«Ã½ RECORDING.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Pieces, Book 1, Op. 12: No. 6, Norsk [Norwegian]

    Performer: Ragnhild Hemsing. Performer: Benedict Kloeckner.
    • Rota: Music By Grieg; Halvorsen; Bull; Svendsen.
    • Berlin Classics.
  • Édouard Lalo

    Norwegian rhapsody

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.
    • Ernest Ansermet L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
    • Decca.
    • 9.
  • Michael Tippett

    Spring (Crown of the Year): Prelude: Spring, Hush nightingale and Refrain

    Performer: Martin Jones. Choir: Christ Church Cathedral Choir. Director: Stephen Darlington.
    • Tippett: Choral Works.
    • Nimbus.
    • 5.
  • Trad.

    Come ye not from Newcastle

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Performer: Frederick Stone.
    • DECCA.
  • Richard Rodgers

    Carousel Waltz (Carousel)

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • American Light Music Classics.
    • Hyperion.
    • 22.

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