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Start the day with classical music

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and two shortlisted entries from the Carol Competition.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 20 Dec 2023 06:30

Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Kinderszenen, Op. 15

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: 7. Tr盲umerei.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    O Clavis David

    Ensemble: Ensemble Correspondances. Director: S茅bastien Dauc茅.
    • Charpentier: Pastorale de No毛l.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 28.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Double Concerto in A minor, Op 102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Performer: Daniel M眉ller鈥怱chott. Orchestra: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • Pentatone.
  • Judith Weir

    Drop down, ye heavens, from above

    Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.
    • Advent at Merton.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Oboe Concerto in G minor BWV.1056R

    Performer: Xenia L枚ffler. Ensemble: Collegium 1704. Director: V谩clav Luks.
    • JS Bach: Oboe Concertos & Cantatas.
    • ACCENT.
    • 1-3.
  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque no.1 in E major

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • Philips.
  • Jean de Br茅beuf

    Iesous Ahatonnia - the Huron Carol

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien. Director: Fran莽ois Lazarevitch. Choir: Ma卯trise de Radio France. Director: Sofi Jeannin.
    • ALPHA.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Violin Sonata in E, Op. 5 No 11

    Performer: Lina Tur Bonet. Ensemble: Musica Alchemica.
    • PAN CLASSICS.
  • Harold Edwin Darke

    In the Bleak Midwinter

    Performer: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Performer: Simon Bell. Conductor: Andrew Lumsden.
    • REGENT.
  • Gustav Holst

    In the Bleak Midwinter

    Music Arranger: Graham Fitkin. Performer: Ruth Wall.
    • GFR.
  • POEM

    Extract from Love鈥檚 Labour鈥檚 Lost, Act 5, scene 2, by Shakespeare, Read by Robert Donat

  • Cosmo Sheldrake

    Owl Song

    Performer: Cosmo Sheldrake.
    • TARDIGRADE RECORDS.
  • 叠箩枚谤办

    Frosti

    Performer: 叠箩枚谤办.
    • ELEKTRA.
  • Becky McGlade

    In the Bleak Midwinter

    Choir: Truro Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
    • REGENT.
  • George Gershwin

    Girl Crazy: I got rhythm

    Music Arranger: Iain Farrington. Ensemble: Art Deco Trio.
    • SOMM.
  • JUNIOR Carol 4 - Isabelle

    Polaris

    Performer: Iain Farrington. Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Nicholas Chalmers.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Op.27

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Winterreise D911 - Der Leiermann

    Performer: Nata拧a Mirkovi膰-De Ro.
    • Raumklang.
  • Matthias Loibner

    Augenblick

    • Lichtungen.
    • TRAUMTON.
    • 6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude (Suite No. 1 in G, BWV 1007)

    Performer: Lynn Harrell.
    • On Chesil Beach.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 20.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis and Chloe (extract)

    Performer: Adam Walker. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Ravel: Daphnis et Chlo茅 (Complete Ballet).
    • Chandos.
    • 112.
  • Richard Rodgers

    Surrey with the fringe on top (Oklahoma)

    Composer: Oscar Hammerstein II. Singer: Marlene Dietrich.
    • The Very Best Of Marlene Dietrich.
    • Disconforme.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.25 in C major K.503 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos nos. 24 & 25, Uchida, English Chamber Orchestra, Tate.
    • Philips.
  • Peter Warlock

    Bethlehem Down

    Author: Bruce Blunt. Conductor: Harry Christophers. Ensemble: The Sixteen.
    • Song of the Nativity.
    • CORO.
    • 5.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz, Op 64 No 1, 'Minute'

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Chopin: Waltzes: Tharaud.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 12.
  • SENIOR Carol 4 - Clare Welfare

    Polaris

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Performer: Iain Farrington. Conductor: Nicholas Chalmers.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.4 in B flat major Op.60 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Trad.

    Hollyberry song (Sans Day Carol)

    Music Arranger: Kerry Andrew. Choir: Juice Vocal Ensemble.
    • RESONUS.
  • Trad.

    Sans Day Carol

    Music Arranger: Graham Fitkin. Performer: Ruth Wall.
    • GFR.
  • Trad.

    The Holly And The Ivy

    Music Arranger: Henry Walford Davies. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • KINGS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE.
  • Trad.

    The Holly And The Ivy

    Music Arranger: Graham Fitkin. Performer: Ruth Wall.
    • GFR.
  • King Henry VIII of England

    Green grow'th the holly, so doth the Ivy

    Performer: Charles Daniels. Ensemble: Capella de la Torre. Performer: Katharina B盲uml.
    • CARPE DIEM.
  • Henry Mancini

    Moon River

    Lyricist: Johnny Mercer. Performer: Audrey Hepburn.
    • BIG SCREEN.
  • Duke Ellington

    It don鈥檛 mean a thing (if it ain鈥檛 got that swing)

    Performer: Ivie Anderson. Orchestra: The Duke Ellington Orchestra.
    • ASV.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Nocturne

    Performer: Brandon Patrick George. Performer: Simon Lepper.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Go from my window

    Performer: Susanna Pell. Performer: Asako Morikawa. Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Gibbons: Consorts for Viols.
    • Avie.
    • 21.

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