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Friday - 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

Fri 8 Feb 2019 06:30

Music Played

  • Giovanni Battista Fontana

    Sonata no. 4 [1641]

    Performer: Maurice Steger. Performer: Christian Beuse. Performer: Sergio Ciomei. Performer: Naoki Kitaya.
    • Venezia 1625.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E flat major, Op.38 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • Farrenc: Nonet & Clarinet Trio.
    • Divox.
    • 4.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 49 No. 2

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.
    • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Opp.26, 27 & 49.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 19.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen (Cantata No 215)

    Choir: Choir of the Age of Enlightenment. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Gustav Leonhardt.
    • Philips.
  • Owain Park

    Above the stars my Saviour dwells

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Park: Choral Works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 005.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in B minor, Wq. 182, No. 5

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • CPE Bach: Six Symphonies.
    • Oiseau Lyre.
    • 13-15.
  • Robert Schumann

    Der Nussbaum, Op.25 no.3

    Singer: Elly Ameling. Performer: Jörg Demus.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Dawn over the Moscow River (Khovanshchina)

    Orchestrator: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • Russian Overtures: Russian National Orchestra, Pletnev.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Abu Hassan (Overture)

    Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.
    • Weber: Overtures.
    • BIS.
    • 3.
  • Moslem Rahal

    Taqsim; Kevoque

    Performer: Moslem Rahal.
    • Ibn Battuta: Traveller of Islam.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 8.
  • Maurice Ravel

    La Flûte enchantée (Shéhérazade)

    Performer: Bernhard Krabatsch. Performer: Fazil Say. Singer: Marianne Crebassa.
    • Secrets.
    • Warner Classics/Erato.
    • 105.
  • Henry Purcell

    Sonata No 5 in G minor, Z 806 (3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th mvts)

    Ensemble: King's Consort. Director: Robert King.
    • Purcell - Ten Sonatas In Four Parts.
    • VIVAT.
    • 6.
  • Pedro Iturralde

    Pequena Czarda

    Music Arranger: John Harle. Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Andee Burkitt. Performer: Zeynep Özsuca. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.
  • Friday prose

    • The Stones of Venice (extract) by John Ruskin, read by Tom Durham

  • Cesario Gussago

    Sonata la Leona

    Performer: Jan Waterfield. Performer: William Whitehead.
    • A New Venetian Coronation 1595.
    • SIGNUM.
    • 26.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Omnes Gentes a 16

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Signum.
  • Harold Arlen

    Get Happy (Summer Stock)

    Composer: Ted Koehler. Singer: Kim Criswell. Orchestra: John Wilson Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • The Best Of The John Wilson Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.
  • John Ireland

    Chelsea Reach (3 London Pieces)

    Performer: John Lenehan.
    • NAXOS.
  • 鶹Լ Symphony Orchestra

    Sheherazade - symphonic suite Op.35: The Sea and Sinbad's ship

    Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • GB鶹Լ.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    La rose, Op. 51, No. 4

    • The Complete Songs of Fauré, Vol. 3.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1001.
  • Robert Schumann

    Concertstück in F major, Op.86 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • RCA.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Invention no. 13 in A minor, BWV 784

    Performer: Simone Dinnerstein.
  • Gene Pritsker

    Reinventions (2nd Movement) after J S Bach

    Performer: Simone Dinnerstein. Ensemble: Absolute Ensemble. Conductor: Kristjan Järvi.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Sheherazade, Op.35 (Festival at Baghdad)

    Music Arranger: Aleksandar Sedlar. Performer: Nemanja Radulović. Performer: Stephanie Fontanarosa. Ensemble: Double Sens.
  • Stephen Sondheim

    Sweeney Todd (By the Sea)

    Performer: Angela Lansbury. Performer: Len Cariou. Orchestra: Original Broadway Cast Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Gemignani.
    • Masterworks Broadway.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in C major, Op.33 no.5

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Alfred Brendel plays, vol.4.
    • Vox Box.
    • 13.

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