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Music on the Brink: Berlin

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show. For Radio 3's Music on the Brink Season, 鶹Լ foreign correspondents talk to Petroc about cultural life in Europe in early 1914.

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. As part of 鶹Լ Radio 3's Music on the Brink season, 鶹Լ Correspondents from across Europe shine a light on music making across the continent as it was in the period just before the outbreak of the First World War.

Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 8 Jan 2014 06:30

Music Played

  • Thomas Tallis

    Iam Christus astra ascenderat

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Ceremony and Devotion: Music for the Tudors.
    • Coro.
    • 8.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Die Marketenderin (The Canteen Woman): Prelude

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Fischer-Dieskau.
    • Humperdinck: Orchestral Works.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 10.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no. 5 (BWV.1050) in D major, 3rd movement; Allegro

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Bach: Brandenburg Concertos.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in E minor KK IV no.15

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • 477 8095.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 18.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Ancient airs and dances... - suite no.2 for small orchestra, no.3; Campanae...

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Hungarica. Conductor: Antal Doráti.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Philharmonia Hungarica/Dorati.
    • Mercury.
    • 7.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Humoresque (Op.101`7) in G flat major arr. Averay for wind trio

    Ensemble: The Vancouver Wind Trio. Music Arranger: Averay, Anthony.
    • Celebrated Classics: The Vancouver Wind Trio.
    • Sonrise Audio.
    • 8.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Much Ado about Nothing Suite, Op 11 (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
    • Korngold: Orchestral Works: London Symphony Orchestra/Previn.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Percy Grainger

    Mock Morris

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Grainger Edition Vol.6: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 12.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in A minor, D 804, 'Rosamunde' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
  • Claude Debussy

    Tarantelle styrienne orch Ravel

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Alberto Zedda.
    • Prokofiev/Debussy/Milhaud: Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne/Zedda.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 11.
  • Franz Liszt

    Unstern! - Sinistre - Disastro

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Liszt - Sonate en si mineur.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 6.
  • John Ireland

    Sonata no. 1 in D minor for violin and piano: 3rd movement; Rondo (Allegro..)

    Performer: Lydia Mordkovitch. Performer: Ian Brown.
    • Ireland: Chamber Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arlésienne Suite No 2 (Carillon)

    Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • Bizet: Carmen Suites/Ponchielli: Cance of the Hours - PO, Ormandy.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 14.
  • Amy Beach

    Concerto in C sharp minor Op.45 for piano and orchestra: 2nd mvt

    Performer: Mary-Louise Boehm. Orchestra: Westphalian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Siegfried Landau.
    • Edward Macdowell and Amy Beach.
    • Vox.
    • 5.
  • Henry Purcell

    If Music be the Food of Love

    Performer: Rogers Covey‐Crump. Ensemble: The King’s Consort. Conductor: Robert King.
    • CDA44161.
    • HYPERION.
    • CD1 T10.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps (Overture)

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphonies: 鶹ԼSO, Davies.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Erik Satie

    Le Piccadilly - march for piano

    Performer: Anne Queffélec.
    • Satie: Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes & Sports et Divertissements: Anne Queffelec.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music Suite in D major HWV.349 (Alla hornpipe)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • Handel: Water Music: The English Concert, Pinnock.
    • Archiv.
    • 11.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Jota aragonesa for violin and piano (Op.27)

    Performer: Ruggiero Ricci. Performer: Miguel Zanetti.
    • Sarasate: Obras Para Violin y Piano.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Heinrich Schütz

    Wohl dem, der den Herren furchtet [Psalm 128] (SWV.30)

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Director: Richard Marlow. Performer: James Morgan. Performer: Richard Pearce.
    • Schutz: Psalmen Davids: Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge.
    • Conifer.
    • 10.
  • Richard Wagner

    Das Rheingold..: sc.4; Schwules Gedunst schwebt in der Luft [Donner]

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Wagner: Das Rheingold.
    • Decca.
    • 11.
  • Walter und Willi Kollo

    Untern Linden, untern Linden

    Performer: Walter und Willi Kollo.
    • Walter und Willi Kollo - Wie einst im Mai.
    • RCA.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in B minor for 4 violins and cello, RV 580

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Stefano Barneschi. Performer: Marco Bianchi. Performer: Riccardo Minasi. Performer: Marco Testori. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Vivaldi: Violin Concertos: Viktoria Mullova.
    • Onyx.
    • 4-6.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance no.12 in D flat 'Dumka'

    Orchestra: Česká filharmonie. Conductor: Václav Neumann.
    • 0927 48999 2.
    • APEX.
    • 12.

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