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Thursday - Petroc Trelawny

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with the Best of British Music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Plus neglected composers and amateur music groups.

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 6 Mar 2014 06:30

Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    An die Musik D.547

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Schubert: 25 Lieder: Ian Bostridge.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 14.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Suite in A major Op.98b 'American' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Janacek: Lachian Dances/Dvorak: Suite in A major.
    • Teldec.
    • 7.
  • Carl Friedrich Abel

    27 Pieces K.186-212 for viola da gamba solo: Allegro WKO 207

    Performer: Wieland Kuijken.
    • Music for Viola Da Gamba.
    • Regis.
    • 3.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Quintet in D major (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Vaughan Williams: Early Chamber Music: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
    • 8.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der soll erniedriget werden (Cantata No 47)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Cantatas - Gardiner: 9.
    • SDG.
    • 14.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude op.23 no.5 in G minor

    Performer: Sviatoslav Richter.
    • Sviatoslac Richter Vol. 7 - Rachmaninov.
    • Olympia.
    • 13.
  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto grosso in B flat major Op.3`5

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Performer: Jaap Schroeder. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Geminiani: Six Concerti Grossi, op.3.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 16-19.
  • Niccolò Paganini

    Concerto no. 2 in B minor Op.7 for violin and orchestra: 3rd mvt; Rondo..

    Performer: Laurent Korcia. Performer: Haruko Ueda.
    • Mister Paganini - Laurent Korcia.
    • Naive.
    • 5.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis et Chloe - suite no. 2: Lever du jour

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Debussy/Ravel/Scriabin.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • François Couperin

    Piece de Clavecin Book 11 - Les Notables

    Performer: Christophe Rousset.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • HMX 2901885.86.
    • 19.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Sibelius: Symphony No.5/Karelia Suite etc: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • Erato.
    • 4.
  • Peter Philips

    Salve Regina for 8 voices (1613)

    Choir: Worcester Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Motets by Peter Philips.
    • Helios.
    • 9.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    12 Studies Op.10 for piano: no.4 in C sharp minor

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • Chopin: Favourite Chopin.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Sheherazade - The Sea and Sinbad's Ship

    Conductor: Lorin Maazel. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic.
    • Scheherazade.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Le Printemps

    Performer: Susan Graham. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • SONY.
    • SK 60168.
    • 15.
  • William Walton

    Orb and sceptre - coronation march

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Elgar & Walton: Marches & Orchestral Music: LPO/Boult.
    • EMI.
    • 13.
  • Henry Purcell

    Dido and Aeneas - opera in 3 acts Z.626: Act 1, no.2a; no.2b and no.3

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: Lynne Dawson. Choir: The Choir of The English Consort. Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 2-3.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka

    Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade (K.388) in C minor for wind octet (K.384a), 4th movement; Allegro

    Orchestra: Consortium Classicum.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Since we met (Waltz Suite for Orchestra)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Prokofiev: Waltz Suite: Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Neeme Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Madama Butterfly - Act 2; Un Bel di vedremo [Butterfly]

    Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Orchestra: Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Puccini's Heroines: The Power of Love.
    • Warner.
    • 14.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quintet in E flat major Op.44 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov. Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Schumann: Piano Quinete and Quartet: Melnikov, Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    24 Preludes in Jazz Style, Op.53: no.17 Ab major

    Performer: Catherine Gordeladze.
    • NAXOS.
    • 8.572272.
    • 25.
  • Louis Vierne

    Carillon de Westminster (Pieces de fantaisie - suite no. 3)

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • Vierne: Carillon de Westminster, Widor: Orgelsymphonie No. 5: Simon Preston.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

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