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Monday - Petroc's classical picks

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

Mon 21 Dec 2020 06:30

Music Played

  • Kenneth Leighton

    Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child

    Choir: Polyphony. Singer: Emma Preston Dunlop. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • O magnum mysterium - 20th century carols and sarum chant.
    • Hyperion.
    • 28.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata in D major for two pianos, K 448 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Radu Lupu. Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Mozart, Schubert: Piano Works.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata no.62 BWV.62 Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland

    Ensemble: Chorus Musicus KΓΆln. Ensemble: Das Neue Orchester. Conductor: Christoph Spering.
    • Luther Kantaten Vol. 1.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1-6.
  • Γ‰mile Waldteufel

    Les Patineurs, Op.183

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
  • Sir James MacMillan

    O Radiant Dawn

    Choir: Apollo5.
    • VCM RECORDS.
  • William Grant Still

    3 Visions (Radiant pinnacle)

    Performer: Monica Gaylord.
    • Black Piano, A Treasury of Works for Solo Piano by Black Composers.
    • MUSIC & ARTS.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 85 in B-Flat Major, Hob. I:85 "The Queen": I. Adagio. Vivace

    Performer: Paris Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • Nomad.
    • NMM078D.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Sonata no.2 in A major, Op.100 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: CΓ©dric Tiberghien.
    • HYPERION.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for Flautino, Strings & Continuo in D Major, Op. 10 / 3, RV 428, "Il Ga

    Performer: Maurice Steger. Performer: I Barocchisti. Performer: Diego Fasolis.
    • Claves.
  • Anon.

    The Bird's Dance

    Performer: Passamezzo.
    • Resonus.
    • RES10263.
  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    Legend, Op 59 No 6

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SFS MEDIA.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in G flat, D899 No.3

    Performer: Eric Lu.
    • Late Works by Mozart, Schubert & Brahms.
    • Genuin.
    • 4.
  • John Rutter

    Blow, blow, thou winter wind (When icicles hang)

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Collegium.
  • Lars‐Erik Larsson

    A Winter's Tale, Op 18 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Stockholm Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jan‐Olav Wedin.
    • A Swedish Pastorale.
    • BIS.
    • 11.
  • John Dankworth

    When icicles hang by the wall

    Author: William Shakespeare. Singer: Cleo Laine. Performer: John Dankworth. Performer: Paul Hart.
    • Wordsongs.
    • Philips.
    • 03.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no.1 in C minor, Op.32 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: European Soloists, Luxembourg. Conductor: Christoph KΓΆnig.
    • Naxos.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets Op.32. IV Jupiter (The Bringer of Jollity)

    Performer: Anthony Goldstone. Performer: Caroline Clemmow.
    • Divine Art.
  • George Maltby

    Marshall

    Composer: Henry Kirke White. Ensemble: Foolow Carrollers.
    • English Village Carols.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.
    • 16.
  • James Oswald

    Sonata on Scots Tunes

    Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia. Director: David McGuinness.
    • James Oswald: Colin's Kisses: Concerto Caledonia.
    • Linn.
    • 014.
  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasy in C major, Op 17 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Schumann: Davidsbundlertanze / Fantasie : Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Decca.
    • 20.

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