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International Women's Day

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with the Friday poem and music that captures the mood of the morning.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Dora PejačeviΔ‡

    Snowdrop & Red Carnation (The Life of Flowers)

    Performer: Ida Gamulin.
    • Dora Pejacevic: Ida Gamulin: piano music.
    • CROATIA RECORDS.
    • 1 & 6.
  • Laura Mvula

    Sing to the Moon

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Director: Anna Lapwood.
    • Signum.
  • Γ‰lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Trio Sonata No.3 in D

    Performer: Frances Conover Fitch. Performer: Jane Hershey. Performer: Dana Maiben. Performer: Robert Mealy.
    • CENTAUR.
  • Anna Clyne

    Cello Concerto 'Dance' (When You're Broken Up)

    Performer: Inbal Segev. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Avie.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    No. 6 in E Maj (rΓ©)inventions Γ  deux pianos (arr. for two pianos by Chiahu Lee)

    Music Arranger: Chiahu Lee. Performer: Yulia Vershinina-Mukhopadhyay. Performer: Chiahu Lee.
    • (rΓ©)inventions Γ  Deux Pianos.
    • Divine Art.
    • 6.
  • CΓ©cile Chaminade

    Flute Concertino Op.107

    Performer: Susan Milan. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • La Flute Enchantee.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Ella Jarman-Pinto

    This Little Rose

    Author: Emily Dickinson. Singer: Nadine Benjamin. Performer: Nicole Panizza.
    • Emergence - Emily Dickinson.
    • Stone Records.
    • 30.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Harp Sonata (Perpetuum Mobile)

    Performer: Sarah Schuster Ericsson.
    • DORIAN SONO LUMINUS.
  • Nicola LeFanu

    Catalunya! (Songs without words, No 3)

    Ensemble: Gemini Ensemble. Director: Ian Mitchell.
    • For Clarinet and Strings.
    • Metier.
    • 4.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony no.3 in C minor (Juba)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick NΓ©zet‐SΓ©guin.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Eliza's Aria (Wild Swans)

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Jacques Ammon.
    • Spheres: Daniel Hope.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Dolce Cantavi

    Performer: TENET.
    • The Secret Lovers.
    • Avie.
    • 13.
  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor Op.17 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.
  • Sally Beamish

    Seavaigers (Haven)

    Performer: Catriona McKay. Performer: Chris Stout. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: James Lowe.
  • Teresa CarreΓ±o

    Florence (Deux esquisses italiennes, Op 33)

    Performer: Alexandra Oehler.
    • Teresa Carreno: Klavierwerke (Piano works).
    • ARS MUSICI.
    • 008.
  • FRIDAY POEM

    Earth Cries, written and read by Jean "Binta" Breeze

  • Emilie Mayer

    Children's World, Op. 48, No. 6: No. 2

    Performer: Annette Kruisbrink.
    • Women Composers: Guitar Transcriptions.
    • Soundset.
    • 9.
  • Anne Dudley

    Jeeves and Wooster (Theme)

    Ensemble: Dover Street Jazzomaniacs.
    • The World of Jeeves and Wooster.
    • EMI.
    • 001.
  • Grace Williams

    Penillion (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Ray Allan. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • Grace Williams: Sea Sketches; Fantasia; Carillons; Penillion.
    • Lyrita.
    • 6.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat major

    Ensemble: Chaos String Quartet.
  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Heyr ΓΎΓΊ oss himnum Γ‘ [Hear us in the heavens]

    Choir: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis. Conductor: Hârður Áskelsson.
    • Meditatio: Music for Mixed Choir.
    • BIS.
    • 10.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no.3 in G minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • Erato.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O Euchari in leta via

    Singer: Rebecca Lea. Choir: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers Women's Voices. Conductor: Benjamin Goodson.
  • Dani Howard

    Trombone Concerto: III. Illumination

    Performer: Peter Moore. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Seal.
    • Rubicon.
  • Isabella Leonarda

    Sonata prima, Op. 16 No. 1

    Ensemble: La Cigale. Director: Madeleine Owen.
    • ANALEKTA.
  • Laura Karpman

    Bookstore (From "American Fiction" original soundtrack)

    • Masterworks.
    • G010005189635B.
    • 3.
  • Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria

    Telestri Regina delle Amazzoni (Sinfonia)

    Ensemble: Batzdorfer Hofkapelle. Director: Daniel Deuter.
    • Talestri - Commedia per Musica.
    • KammerTon.
    • 1-3.

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