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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 21 Oct 2022 06:30

Music Played

  • Henry Purcell

    Music for a While (Oedipus, Z.583, Act 3)

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • If.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 11.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Boris Giltburg. Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Supraphon.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Oboe Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Juliana Koch. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto no.2 in E major BWV.1053 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Francesco Corti. Ensemble: Il Pomo d鈥橭ro.
    • J.S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 201.
  • Clara Schumann

    Romance, Op 22 no.3

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Romance 鈥 The Piano Music of Clara Schumann.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 10.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Venezia

    Performer: Gary Matthewman. Singer: Alessandro Fisher.
    • 大象传媒 RECORDING.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581: I. Allegro

    Performer: Michael Collins. Ensemble: Wigmore Soloists.
    • Mozart & Birchall: Clarinet Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 201.
  • Julie London

    Cry Me a River

    • The Girl Can't Help It.
    • Fantastic Voyage.
    • 66.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat major (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor Op.18 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Muriel Herbert

    The Lake Isle of Innisfree

    Singer: James Gilchrist. Performer: David Owen Norris.
    • LINN.
  • FRIDAY POEM:

    "Stone", written and read by Nick Makoha

  • Geoffrey Oryema

    Lubanga

    Singer: Geoffrey Oryema.
    • Exile.
    • Realworld.
    • 9.
  • 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.
  • Miles Davis

    Generique

    Performer: Miles Davis.
    • Ascenseur pour l'茅chafaud.
    • Supreme Media.
    • 1.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    African Suite (Valse)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Chineke! Records.
  • POEM:

    "Answer to a Child's Question" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, read by Juliet Stevenson

  • Benjamin Britten

    Britten: Nocturne

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings - Les Illuminations - Nocturne.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 120.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Britten: Nocturne, Op. 60: No. 3, Encinctured with a Twine of Leaves

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings - Les Illuminations - Nocturne.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 121.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Britten: Nocturne

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings - Les Illuminations - Nocturne.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 122.
  • Howard Skempton

    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
    • Howard Skempton: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
    • NMC Recordings.
    • 101.
  • Antoine Forqueray

    Jupiter (Suite no. 5 in C minor)

    Performer: Thomas Dunford. Performer: Jean Rondeau.
    • ERATO.
  • Richard Strauss

    Also sprach Zarathustra (Introduction)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No 7 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • DECCA.
  • Carey Blyton

    Revenge of the Cybermen

    • Doctor Who - The 50th Anniversary Collection (Original Television Soundtrack).
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 3.
  • Dick Mills

    The Mandragora Helix (From "The Masque of Mandragora")

    Performer: Dick Mills.
    • Doctor Who - The 50th Anniversary Collection (Original Television Soundtrack).
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 11.
  • Geoffrey Burgon

    Antarctica - The First Pod (From "The Seeds of Doom")

    • Doctor Who - The 50th Anniversary Collection (Original Television Soundtrack).
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 9.
  • Geoffrey Burgon

    Get Dunbar! / Krynoid on the Loose (The Seeds of Doom)

    • Doctor Who - The 50th Anniversary Collection (Original Television Soundtrack).
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 10.
  • Ron Grainer

    Doctor Who Closing Titles

    Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire.
    • Doctor Who - The 50th Anniversary Collection (Original Television Soundtrack).
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 13.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in E flat major Op.18 'Grande valse brillante'

    Performer: Anna Fedorova.
    • Channel Classics.

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