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Wednesday - Petroc's classical alternative

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

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 23 Feb 2022 06:30

Music Played

  • Orlando Gibbons

    Fantasia a 6, MB.48.31

    Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Gibbons: Sonsorts for Viols: Phantasm.
    • Avie.
    • 4.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Oboe Sonata

    Performer: François Leleux. Performer: Emmanuel Strosser.
    • Bienvenue en France.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Romance Op.11

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 12.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Kommt, ihr angefochtnen Sünder (Cantata no.30)

    Singer: Magdalena Kožená. Ensemble: Musica Florea. Conductor: Marek Štryncl.
    • J.S. Bach: Arias.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 10.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in G major Op.18`2 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Elias String Quartet.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
  • Charles Burney

    Cornet Piece in D

    Performer: Ton Koopman.
    • CAPRICCIO.
  • Bo Holten

    Handel with Care - Variations on Darwin

    Author: Charles Darwin. Singer: Sarah Van Mol. Singer: Hilde Venken. Choir: Vlaams Radiokoor. Conductor: Bo Holten.
    • Dacapo.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Trio Sonata no. 1 in G minor, RV 73

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Performer: Sophie de Bardonnèche. Ensemble: Le Consort.
    • ALPHA.
  • Maurice Ravel

    La flûte enchantée (Shéhérazade)

    Singer: Régine Crespin. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.
    • A Tribute.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 33.
  • Fats Waller

    Ain't Misbehavin'

    Composer: Harry Brooks. Composer: Andy Razaf. Performer: Fats Waller.
    • Stormy Weather (The Soundtrack Factory).
    • Disconforme.
    • 8.
  • John Blow

    Chaconne in G

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Chaconnes by Blow, Corelli, Marini, Purcell: Musica Antique Koln, Reinhard Goebe.
    • Archiv.
    • 6.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony no. 7 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gurzenich Orchestra of Cologne. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • MYRIOS.
  • Henry Purcell

    Wondrous machine (Hail! Bright Cecilia)

    Singer: Peter Harvey. Orchestra: Collegium Vocale Orchestra. Director: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    WTC Book 1: Prelude and Fugue no 2 in C minor, BWV 847

    Performer: Wendy Carlos.
    • Switched On Bach.
    • CBS.
  • Edward German

    Valse Gracieuse

    Orchestra: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • German: Symphony No. 2 / Welsh Rhapsody.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 1.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    On Wenlock Edge

    Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Singer: James Gilchrist. Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet.
    • LINN.
  • Muriel Herbert

    Loveliest of trees

    Singer: James Gilchrist. Performer: David Owen Norris.
    • LINN.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    10 Preludes Op.23 (no.6 in E flat major)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Horseplay (Lively)

    Ensemble: Ensemble X.
    • AVIE.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue no. 6 in D minor, BWV851

    Performer: Colin Tilney.
    • HYPERION.
  • Mel Tormé & George Shearing

    It Might As Well Be Spring

    • An Evening With George Shearing and Mel Tormé.
    • Concord Records.
    • 9.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major K.364 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Warner.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    6 Melodies (Allegro molto vivace)

    Performer: Béatrice Rauchs.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Straussiana

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Korngold - Symphony in F sharp.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

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