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Monday - Petroc's classical alternative

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

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 22 May 2023 06:30

Music Played

  • Max Bruch

    Die Loreley Op.16 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Trevino.
    • Bruch: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 & Overtures.
    • CPO.
    • 401.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    How lovely are the messengers (St Paul Op.36)

    Choir: 大象传媒 National Chorus of Wales. Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    In The Bottoms (Barcarolle)

    Performer: William Chapman Nyaho.
    • MSR Classics.
  • Gustav Holst

    Mercury, the Winged Messenger (The Planets, Op 32)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Sir Simon Rattle - Gustav Holst.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite for Cello No.4 in E flat major, BWV1010; Bourrees & Gigue

    Performer: Pierre Fournier.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Frederick Delius

    On hearing the first cuckoo in spring

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Karen Tanaka

    Water Dance (Very lightly, like a harp)

    Performer: Signe Bakke.
    • Crystalline.
    • 2L.
    • 4.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    When your sweet glances fall on me (Cypresses)

    Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.
    • Old World - New World.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.
  • Franz Schubert

    The Shepherd on the Rock, D 965

    Singer: Elly Ameling. Performer: Hans Deinzer. Performer: J枚rg Demus.
    • Schubert: Songs: Ameling.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker - Suite)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet, Nutcracker Suite; Maazel, the Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Telarc.
    • 9.
  • Valentin Silvestrov

    3 Bagatelles Op. 1; No. 1 Allegretto

    Performer: H茅l猫ne Grimaud.
  • Frederic Hymen Cowen

    Reverie

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Cuckoo! (Friday afternoons Op.7)

    Singer: Cosmo Sheldrake.
    • Wake Up Calls.
    • Tardigrade Records.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in B flat major, K 361, 'Gran Partita' (7th mvt)

    Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Mozart: Serenades: Academy of St Martin in the fields/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 8.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto in C major RV.425

    Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette. Performer: Roy Goodman. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.
    • Vivaldi: Music for Lute and Mandolin; Paul O'Dette, The Parley of Instruments.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Job: A Masque For Dancing - Scene VII: Elihu's Dance Of Youth And Beauty - Pavane Of The Sons Of The Morning

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Job - A Masque For Dancing / Partita For Double String Orchestra.
    • EMI.
    • 07.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Poor Wand'Ring One (Pirates of Penzance, Act 1)

    Composer: William Gilbert. Ensemble: Dr. Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket.
    • EMI Comedy.
    • Parlophone UK.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Cello Sonata in G minor Op.19 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Anastasia Kobekina. Performer: Tom Poster.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Director: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Carl Nielsen

    String Quintet in G major (4th mvt)

    Performer: Tim Frederiksen. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Carl Nielsen: String Quartets Vol.1.
    • Da Capo.
    • 12.
  • Franz Liszt

    Au bord d'une source (Ann茅es de p猫lerinage I)

    Performer: Lazar Berman.
    • DG.
  • Grace Williams

    Penillion (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Ray Allan. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • Grace Williams: Sea Sketches; Fantasia; Carillons; Penillion.
    • Lyrita.
    • 6.
  • Ivor Gurney

    Captain Stratton's Fancy

    Performer: Susie Allan. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • Somm.
  • Richard Wagner

    Magic Fire Music (Die Walk眉re)

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.
    • RCA.

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