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Friday - Petroc's classical picks

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 13 May 2022 06:30

Music Played

  • Trad.

    Early in the Spring

    Music Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Choir: London Madrigal Players. Director: Christopher Bishop.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Trad.

    An Acre of Land

    Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Choir: Deller Consort. Director: Alfred Deller.
    • VANGUARD CLASSICS.
  • Thomas Linley the Elder

    Violin Concerto in F major: iii. Rondeau

    Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Orchestra: Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.
    • HELIOS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Trio for violin, horn and piano in E flat major, Op 40 (3rd mvt, Adagio Mesto)

    Performer: David Guerrier. Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Nicholas Angelich.
    • Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2016.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 119.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sinfonia (Cantata No 146, 'Wir m眉ssen durch viel Tr眉bsal')

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Cantatas, Vol. 44.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Quintet, Op.34 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Richard Hosford. Ensemble: The Gaudier Ensemble.
    • Weber: Clarinet Quintet/Piano Quartet/Trio: The Gaudier Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • Arvo Part: Fratres; Tabula Rasa; Spiegel im Spiegel; Summa; Festina Lente; Cantu.
    • EMI.
    • 4.
  • Pete Seeger

    Where have all the flowers gone?

    Singer: Marlene Dietrich. Performer: Pete Seeger. Orchestra: Orchestra.
    • Liberty.
  • Alexander Arutunyan

    Armenian Rhapsody

    Music Arranger: Arno Babadjanyan. Ensemble: Cadence Ensemble.
    • Expressia: Armenian Metamorphoses.
    • Signum Records.
    • 006.
  • Georges Bizet

    Jeux d'enfants (Le bal)

    Performer: John Ogdon. Performer: Brenda Lucas.
    • EMI.
  • Trad.

    Robin Hood and the Pedlar

    Music Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Derek Welton.
    • ALBION RECORDS.
  • Ernest John Moeran

    Lonely Waters

    Singer: Rebekah Coffey. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat major, Op 42

    Performer: Nelly Ben-Or.
    • Chopin Dances: Nelly Ben-Or.
    • Meridian.
    • 14.
  • Dag Wir茅n

    Annorst盲des vals

    Lyricist: Alf Henrikson. Singer: Ingvar Wixell. Orchestra: Orchestra.
    • Festivalfavoriter 1.
    • Parlophone Sweden.
    • 10.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    Mother to Son by Langston Hughes, read by Langston Hughes

  • Trad.

    We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace

    Music Arranger: Undine Smith Moore. Choir: VocalEssence. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • CLARION.
  • Jean Coulthard

    Bicycle Parade (Excursion)

    Orchestra: Symphony Nova Scotia. Conductor: Georg Tintner.
    • Colonial Diversions: Orchestral Miniatures by Grainger, Lilburn, Benjamin and Co.
    • Naxos.
    • 26.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quintet in E flat major Op.97 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet. Performer: Pavel Nikl.
    • Dvorak - Quintets Op.81 & 97.
    • Supraphon.
    • 8.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Lumberjacks' chorus (Paul Bunyan)

    Singer: Francis Egerton. Singer: Graeme Broadbent. Singer: Roderick Earle. Choir: Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Ferde Grof茅

    Sunrise (Grand Canyon Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique B谩tiz.
    • EMI.
  • Robert Schumann

    Vom fremden Landern, Traumerei, Am Camin (Kinderszenen Op.15 Nos 1, 7 and 8)

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • Sony.
  • Trad.

    Five English Folk Songs: Wassail Song

    Music Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Choir: Colne Orpheus Glee Union. Director: Luther Underwood.
    • ALBION RECORDS.
  • Trad.

    The Jolly Waggoners

    Performer: The Watersons.
    • Early Days.
    • Topic Records.
    • 10.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No.4 in A major, Op.90, 'Italian' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph von Dohn谩nyi.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos.3 - 5; THe Hebrides, etc. - Wiener Philharmoniker, D.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Von ewiger Liebe, Op 43 No 1

    Singer: Kitty Whately. Performer: James Baillieu.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in A minor RV.356, Op.3`6

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • L'Estro Armonico.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
    • 16-18.

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