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Friday - Petroc's classical commute

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 3 Mar 2023 06:30

Music Played

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Turn our captivity, O Lord

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Granville Bantock

    Song to the Seals

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.
  • Josef Rheinberger

    Nonet in E flat major Op.139 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Stuttgart Nonet.
    • SWR Digital.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826: Sinfonia; Sarabande

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Bach, J.S.: Toccata BWV 911; Partita No. 2; English Suite No. 2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.
  • Edward Elgar

    Aubade (Nursery Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • Elgar: Nursery Suite etc.: Groves.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Paul Mealor

    She walks in beauty

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Paul Mealor: A Tender Light: Tenebrae/RPO/Short.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Harold in Italy, Op.16 (Serenade)

    Performer: Lise Berthaud. Orchestra: Op茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Berlioz: Harold en Italie.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 5 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mischa Maisky. Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Martha Argerich and Friends Live from The Lugano Festival 2013.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Franz Leh谩r

    Vilja's Lied (The Merry Widow)

    Singer: Lesley Garrett. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: Crouch End Festival Chorus. Conductor: James Holmes.
    • Lesley Garrett - Soprano in Red.
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 14.
  • Georges Bizet

    A la bohemienne (Carmen)

    Performer: Ksenija Sidorova. Ensemble: Nuevo Mundo.
  • Heino Eller

    Dawn [Zarya] - symphonic poem

    Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Olari Elts.
    • Baltic Sounds.
    • Ondine.
    • 101.
  • Thomas Campion

    Faire if you expect admiring

    Singer: Hugh Cutting. Performer: George Ireland.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    Love after Love by Derek Walcott, read by Stephen Tompkinson

  • Florence Price

    String Quartet No.2 in A minor (3rd mvt: Juba)

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered Vol 2: Florence B Price.
    • Azica Records.
    • 11.
  • Richard Wagner

    Pilgrims' Chorus (Tannh盲user)

    Choir: Treorchy Male Voice Choir. Performer: John Cynan Jones.
    • EMI.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in A minor, Op 59 No 1

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 7.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op.50`6 'The Frog' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Tokyo String Quartet.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony in D minor, 'Youth'

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Rachmaninoff: Symphony no.1 etc: 大象传媒 Philharmonic/Noseda.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Juliette Folville

    Songe [ Dream ]

    Singer: Laetitia Grimaldi. Performer: Ammiel Bushakevitz.
    • BIS.
  • Henry Wood

    Bugle Calls, The Saucy Arethusa, Tom Bowling, Jack's the Lad hornpipe (Fantasia on British Sea Songs)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Land of Hope and Glory, The Ultimate Classical Celebration.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Ruy Blas - Overture Op.95

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • John Dowland

    The Frog Galliard

    Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • My Favourite Dowland.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 008.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio sonata in G major Op.3`6

    Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.
    • Linn.

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