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Wednesday - Petroc's classical picks

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

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 15 Mar 2023 06:30

Music Played

  • Henry Purcell

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

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • If.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 11.
  • Ernest John Moeran

    Stalham River

    Performer: Eric Parkin.
    • William Baines / E J Moeran – Piano Music.
    • Lyrita.
    • 22.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quintet in F minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Boris Giltburg. Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sanctus... Osanna in excelsis (Mass in B minor, BWV 232)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • J. S. Bach, Mass in B minor: Dunedin Consort and Players.
    • Linn.
    • 22.
  • Robert Schumann

    Humoreske, Op. 20: I. Einfach

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein.
    • Kirill Gerstein plays Liszt, Schumann and Knussen.
    • Myrios Classics.
    • 1.
  • Henry Lawes

    The Angler's Song: Man's life is but vain, for 'tis subject to pain

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Robin Blaze.
    • Songs by Henry and William Lawes.
    • HYPERION.
    • 25.
  • Franz Schubert

    Die Forelle

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Ian Bostridge.
    • Schubert: Lieder: Bostridge, Drake.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Richard Strauss

    Capriccio (Sextet)

    Ensemble: The Raphael Ensemble.
    • HELIOS.
  • Irving Berlin

    Waiting at the End of the Road

    Performer: Richard Rodney Bennett. Singer: Claire Martin.
    • Say it Isn't So.
    • LINN.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet in E flat major K.452 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble 360.
    • Mozart: Chamber Works.
    • ASV.
    • 7.
  • Trad.

    Unst Boat Song

    Singer: Karine Polwart. Singer: Eliza Carthy. Singer: Hannah James. Singer: Hannah Read. Singer: Hazel Askew. Singer: Jenn Butterworth. Singer: Jenny Hill. Singer: Kate Young. Singer: Mary MacMaster. Singer: Rowan Rheingans.
    • NAVIGATOR RECORDS.
  • Trad.

    Unst Boat Song

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • ECM.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Op.26

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 \"Italian\", Symphony No. 5 \"Reformation\" & Th.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Klokkeklang [Bell-ringing] (Lyric Pieces Bk.5)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Va tacito (Giulio Cesare)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Handel: Ombra mai fu: Andreas Scholl, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.
  • Edward Ward

    Edward Ward, marooned on Bishop Rock Lighthouse, 2nd January 1947

    • ´óÏó´«Ã½ ARCHIVE.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Bishop Rock

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Les roses d'Ispahan (4 Songs Op.39)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • BIS.
  • Billy Strayhorn

    Take the "A" Train

    Performer: Duke Ellington Orchestra.
    • Duke Ellington: The Blanton-Webster Band.
    • Bluebird.
    • 10.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    String Quartet No. 2 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Korngold: String Quartets Nos. 1-3.
    • Naxos.
    • 204.
  • Jake Thackray

    La Di Da

    • Jake In A Box (The EMI Recordings 1967-1976).
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 1.
  • Jake Thackray

    Tra La La (La Di Da)

    • Jake In A Box (The EMI Recordings 1967-1976).
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 14.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Rapsodie Espagnole: IV. Feria

    Ensemble: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Escales.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Mazurka in B major, Op 56 No 1

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050 - 3rd movement, Allegro

    Performer: Enrico Onofri. Performer: Giovanni Antonini. Performer: Michele Barchi. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.

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