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Thursday - Petroc's classical rise and shine

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and continuing our celebration of the Commonwealth Games. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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

Plus every day this week on Breakfast we celebrate the Commonwealth Games 2022 taking place in Birmingham, with a piece by a composer from the Commonwealth. Ranging from Africa to the Caribbean and North America, from Malta in the Mediterranean to New Zealand, we explore the rich musical heritage of the Commonwealth nations.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 4 Aug 2022 06:30

Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    Jeux d'eau

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • DECCA.
  • Ludwig Senfl

    2 Marian Motets: No. 2, Ave rosa sine spina

    Ensemble: Singer Pur.
    • Ludwig Senfl: Motets & Songs.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 401.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Horn Trio in E flat, Op.40 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Nicholas Angelich. Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: David Guerrier.
    • Martha Argerich & Friends Live From The Lugano Festival 2016.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Trio Sonata No. 5 in C, BWV 529: Allegro

    Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: George Malcolm.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Ned Rorem

    Early in the morning

    Singer: Susan Graham. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Songs of Ned Rorem.
    • Erato.
    • 03.
  • Vincent Youmans

    Tea For Two

    Performer: Django Reinhardt. Performer: Michel Warlop. Lyricist: Irving Caesar.
    • Complete Jazz Series 1937 Vol. 2.
    • Complete Jazz Series.
    • 16.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Wolfgang Meyer. Ensemble: Quatuor Mosa茂ques.
    • NAIVE.
  • Comtessa de Dia

    A chantar m'er de so qu'eu non volria [Le Chansonnier du Roi]

    Ensemble: Apotropa茂k.
    • 大象传媒 RECORDING.
  • Bernart de Ventadorn

    Can l'erba fresch

    Ensemble: Apotropa茂k.
    • 大象传媒 RECORDING.
  • David Bedford

    Variation on Sumer Is Icumen In

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jac van Steen.
    • Themes & Variations: Variations by Nineteen British Composers.
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 307.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No. 62 in E flat (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 11.
    • Chandos.
  • Abel Selaocoe

    Lerato / Love

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Performer: Colin Alexander. Performer: Fred Thomas. Performer: Mamadou Sarr. Performer: Max Baillie. Performer: Sidiki Demb茅l茅. Performer: Simmy Singh. Singer: Alan Keary.
    • Lerato / Love.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Violin Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Orchestra: Norrk枚pings Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Daniel Blendulf.
    • Tchaikovsky; Barber: Violin Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 03.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    The Gadfly Suite Op.97a (Galop)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Shostakovich: Film Music Vol.2: 大象传媒 Philharmonic/Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Thomas Armstrong

    The Durham Strike

    Performer: Ewan MacColl. Performer: Peggy Seeger.
    • VANGUARD.
  • Kalevi Aho

    Laulu maasta [Song of the Earth]

    Performer: Jan Lehtola. Performer: Kaija Saarikettu. Performer: Anna-Kaisa Pippuri.
    • Ludus Solemnis.
    • BIS.
    • 09.
  • Carolina Eyck

    Elliptic Orbit

    Performer: Carolina Eyck.
    • Thetis 2086.
    • Neue Meister.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in B flat major Op.18`6 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets, Vol. III "Apotheosis".
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 5.
  • Charles Ives

    The World's Wanderers, 'Tell me, Star, whose wings of light'

    Performer: Julius Drake. Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Singer: Gerald Finley.
    • HYPERION.
  • Liza Lehmann

    A widow bird sate mourning

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson.
    • HELIOS.
  • Roger Quilter

    Love鈥檚 Philosophy

    Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Performer: Alice Coote. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • HYPERION.
  • Nardi Simpson

    Of Stars and Birds

    Ensemble: Ensemble Offspring.
    • Women of Note Vol 3.
    • ABC Classics.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

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

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin.
    • RCA.
  • David Raksin

    Theme from 'Laura'

    Performer: Andy Wood. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Hollywood Soundstage.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 2.
  • Edward Bairstow

    Music, When Soft Voices Die

    Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • The Best of King's Singers.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1501.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Orchestral Suite in D major HWV.341

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Performer: Alison Balsom. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Purcell, Handel: Sound the Trumpet: Alison Balsom, Trevor Pinnock.
    • EMI Classics.

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