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Thursday - Petroc's classical commute

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Judith Bingham

    The darkness is no darkness

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • DECCA.
  • Johannes Brahms

    String Quintet No 2 in G minor, Op 111 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Thomas Kakuska. Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • Brahms: String Quartet No.1 etc..
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • Giles Farnaby

    Giles Farnaby's Dreame

    Performer: Pierre Hantaï.
    • George Farnaby's Dreame.
    • Adda.
    • 27.
  • Stephen Foster

    Beautiful Dreamer

    Singer: Thomas Hampson. Performer: Jay Ungar. Performer: Molly Mason. Performer: David Alpher.
    • American Dreamer.
    • EMI.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F major, BWV.1047

    Performer: Gabriele Cassone. Performer: Giovanni Antonini. Performer: Paolo Grazzi. Performer: Enrico Onofri. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Il Giardino Armonico.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Introduction and polonaise in C major Op.3

    Performer: Guy Johnston. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Themes and Variations.
    • Orchid Classics.
  • Ned Rorem

    Early in the morning

    Singer: Susan Graham. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • The Art of Susan Graham.
    • Erato.
    • 3.
  • Pascal Bastia

    Je tire ma reverence

    Singer: Jean Sablon. Orchestra: Wal-Berg's Orchestra.
    • Je Tire Ma Reverence.
    • Conifer.
    • 23.
  • Louis‐Nicolas Clérambault

    Trio Sonata in G Major "La Félicité"

    Ensemble: Ensemble Diderot. Conductor: Johannes Pramsohler.
    • The Paris Album.
    • Audax Records.
    • 112.
  • Anthony Hedges

    Kingston Sketches, Op.36 (March "Ferensway")

    Ensemble: Humberside Sinfonia. Conductor: Anthony Hedges.
    • Scenes From The Humber.
    • Meridian.
    • 7.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Da tempeste il legno infranto (Giulio Cesare)

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Ensemble: London Early Opera. Conductor: Bridget Cunningham.
    • Handel's Queens.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 201.
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Intrada (String Quartet - as originally written for open strings)

    Ensemble: Kohon String Quartet.
    • Unknown String Quartets Vol. 1.
    • Vox.
    • 10-14.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio and rondo in C minor K.617

    Performer: Dennis James. Ensemble: Salzburg Soloists.
    • NAXOS.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Scherzo-valse (Suite pastorale)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • Paray Conducts Chabrier & Roussel.
    • Mercury.
    • 5.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    The President Jefferson Sunday Luncheon Party March

    Composer: Alan Jay Lerner. Singer: Davis Gaines. Singer: Tracey Miller. Singer: Linda Richardson. Ensemble: Ambrosian Singers. Ensemble: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: John McGlinn.
    • Broadway Showstoppers.
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • John Adams

    Rag The Bone (John's Book of Alleged Dances)

    Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • Gnarly Buttons; John's Book of Alleged Dances.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 5.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in B flat major Wq.182`2

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Christine Schornsheim.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Duke Ellington

    Warm Valley

    Performer: Johnny Hodges. Ensemble: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
    • The Orchard Enterprises.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Die Fledermaus (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bavarian State Orchestra. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Paul Harvey

    Where's the Sunshine

    Performer: Paul Harvey.
    • 鶹Լ recording.
  • Edward Elgar

    There Is Sweet Music (4 Choral songs Op.53)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Music Of The Spheres: Part Songs Of The British Isles.
    • SIGNUM.
    • 9.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in E minor, RV.133

    Performer: Adrian Chandler. Ensemble: La Serenissima.
    • Vivaldi: The French Connection 2.
    • Avie.
    • 1.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Tricotets (Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin)

    Performer: William Christie.
    • Rameau Nouvelles Suites.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 8.
  • Charles Ives

    The Things our Fathers Loved

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Gerald Finley.
    • Hyperion.

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