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Friday - Petroc's classical alternative

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 10 May 2019 06:30

Music Played

  • Georges Bizet

    Intermezzo (Carmen suite no.1)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Trio Sonata No 4 in B flat major

    Ensemble: Aura Musicale. Director: Balázs Máté.
    • CHR. W. Gluck The Seven Trio Sonatas Aura Musicale.
    • Hungaroton Classic.
    • 10.
  • Béla Bartók

    4 Old Hungarian folk songs

    Choir: Male Chorus of the Hungarian People's Army. Conductor: Zoltán Vásárhelyi.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Sonata No.3 in E major BWV.1016 (3rd & 4th mvts)

    Performer: Jaime Laredo. Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • SONY.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Souvenir de Florence, Op.70 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Camerata de Lausanne.
    • Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings; Souvenir de Florence.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Heitor Villaâ€Lobos

    Saudades des Selvas Brasilieras

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Brasileiro: Villa-Lobos and Friends.
    • Decca.
    • 11.
  • Gustav Holst

    Nunc dimittis

    Choir: Holst Singers. Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton.
    • Holst: The Evening Watch: Holst Singers & Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 17.
  • Edmund Rubbra

    Symphony No 5 in B flat major, Op 63 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Rubbra: Complete Symphonies.
    • Chandos.
    • 002.
  • Henry Purcell

    Sound the trumpet (Come ye sons of art)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Singer: Christophe Dumaux. Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Stefano Montanari.
    • Henry Purcell, O Solitude: Andreas Scholl/Accademia Bizantina.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Skride Piano Quartet.
    • ORFEO.
    • 5.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Exultet iam angelica turba

    Singer: Jeremy Budd. Singer: Samuel Boden. Singer: Greg Skidmore. Choir: Ex Cathedra Choir. Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Ensemble: Concerto Palatino. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • HYPERION.
  • Friday Poem

    • "After-Thought (Sonnets from The River Duddon)" by William Wordsworth, read by Raymond Fearon

  • Ian Venables

    At Malvern, Op. 24

    Performer: Richard Jenkinson. Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • EM RECORDS.
    • 4.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive overture Op.96

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • DG.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Trio sonata no. 3 in D major

    Ensemble: The Bach Players.
    • Coviello.
  • Irving Berlin

    Top hat, white tie and tails (Top Hat)

    Singer: Fred Astaire. Performer: Ray Brown. Performer: Alvin Stoller. Performer: Barney Kessel. Performer: Oscar Peterson. Performer: Flip Phillips. Performer: Charlie Shavers.
    • VERVE.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No.3 in B flat major, K.281 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lars Vogt.
    • ONDINE.
    • 6.
  • Enoch Mankayi Sontonga

    Nkosi Sikelel 'IAfrica

    Ensemble: Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
    • Tip-Toe Guys.
    • NASCENTE.
    • 18.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Chant des chemins de fer Op.19`3

    Singer: Rolando Villazón. Choir: Les Éléments. Orchestra: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse.
    • ERATO.
    • 12.
  • Alexander Borodin

    String Sextet in D minor

    Performer: Louise Williams. Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.
    • ASV.
  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Norwegian Dances Op.35 (no. 1)

    Performer: Claire Chevallier. Performer: Jos van Immerseel.
    • Alpha : 282.
    • Alpha.
    • 12.

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