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Tuesday - Petroc's classical alarm call

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and a Bach cantata in our regular Bach Before 7 slot. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests, a Bach cantata in our regular Bach Before 7 slot and Light in the Darkness: specially chosen pieces to greet the sunrise and to reflect on the special quality of light that’s associated with this time of year as part of Radio 3’s Light in the Darkness season, illuminating winter.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 22 Dec 2020 06:30

Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in A flat major, Op 32 No 2

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Nelson Freire: Chopin, The Nocturnes.
    • Decca.
    • 10.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata 70: Wachet! Betet! Betet! Wachet!

    Singer: Brigitte Geller. Singer: Michael Chance. Singer: Jan Kobow. Singer: Dietrich Henschel. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.
  • Richard Blackford

    Christmas Dawn

    Performer: Simon Callaghan.
    • Nimbus Records.
  • Trad.

    Nåchtn spåt

    Music Arranger: ALMA. Ensemble: ALMA.
    • Cherubim.
    • Trikont.
    • 5.
  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Sonata in G for bassoon and piano, Op 168

    Performer: Ursula Leveaux. Performer: Ian Brown.
    • HYPERION.
  • Anoushka Shankar

    Lasya

    Performer: Manu Delago. Performer: Bernhard Schimpelsberger. Performer: Pirashanna Thevarajah. Performer: Kenji Ota.
    • DG.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern - How brightly shines the morning star

    Performer: Adrian Lenthall.
  • Aaron Copland

    Variations on a Shaker hymn (Appalachian Spring)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.
    • Copland: Appalachian Spring, Stravinsky: Apollon Musagete: Dorati.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Traditional Shaker

    Simple Gifts

    Composer: Joseph Brackett. Singer: Judy Collins.
    • BGO RECORDS.
  • Terry Riley

    One Earth, One People, One Love

    Performer: David Harrington. Performer: John Sherba. Performer: Hank Dutt. Performer: Sunny Yang. Performer: Joan Jeanrenaud. Performer: Jennifer Culp.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Eleanor Daley

    Grandmother Moon

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 11.
  • Richard Furness

    Peace o'er the World

    Composer: Alexander Pope. Composer: Len Capper. Ensemble: Little John Singers of Hathersage.
    • English Village Carols.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.
    • 11.
  • George Frideric Handel

    As steals the morn (L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)

    Singer: Mary Bevan. Singer: Allan Clayton. Orchestra: Orchestra of Classical Opera. Conductor: Ian Page.
    • 'Where're You Walk' - Aria's for Handel's Favourite Tenor.
    • Signum.
    • 10.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quartet in E Flat, K.428 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • ´¡±è²¹°ù³Ùé.
  • Frederick Delius

    A Song before sunrise

    Conductor: Thomas Beecham. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Sir Thomas Beecham: The English Collection.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 205.
  • Duke Ellington

    Don't get around much any more

    Performer: Duke Ellington. Singer: Louis Armstrong. Performer: Barney Bigard. Performer: Danny Barcelona. Performer: Mort Herbert. Performer: Trummy Young.
    • The Great Summit: The Master Takes.
    • Roulette Jazz.
    • 13.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Nutcracker, Act 1: March

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Rebecca Dale

    Winter

    Choir: VOCES8. Performer: HÃ¥kon Samuelsen. Performer: Mari Samuelsen. Performer: Huw Watkins.
    • Decca.
  • Franz Schubert

    Hungarian Melody in B minor D.817

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • Schubert/Andras Schiff.
    • ECM.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano concerto no.4 in G (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • Beethoven: The Piano Concertos.
    • HYPERION.
    • 6.
  • Joseph Brackett

    Simple Gifts

    Music Arranger: Anna Tilbrook. Performer: Anna Tilbrook.

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