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Friday - Petroc's classical picks

Petroc Trelawny presents Breakfast, including the Advent Calendar, the Friday Poem, an American Portrait and two carols from our competition shortlist. Email [email protected]

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring our musical Advent Calendar, the next of our American Portraits, music complementing Radio 3's series, ‘The Way I See It’. Also including our regular Friday Poem, listener requests and two carols from the Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition shortlist.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 13 Dec 201906:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    'My Love dwelt in a Northern Land (3 Part Songs, Op.18)

    Choir: Finzi Singers. Conductor: Paul Spicer.
    • Elgar: Part-Songs.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Ernest Chausson

    Andante and Scherzo

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op.27 no.1

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Nelson Freire: Chopin, The Nocturnes.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich will nur dir zu Ehren leben (Christmas Oratorio, BWV.248)

    Singer: Wolfram Lattke. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Bach: Weihnachts-Oratorium; Dresdner Kammerchor, Gewandhausorchester, Riccardo C.
    • Decca.
    • 6.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesus richte mein Beginnen (Christmas Oratorio, BWV.248)

    Choir: Dresden Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Bach: Weihnachts-Oratorium; Dresdner Kammerchor, Gewandhausorchester, Riccardo C.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Anon.

    Veni, veni, Emmanuel

    Music Arranger: Thomas Helmore. Music Arranger: James O’Donnell. Performer: Iain Simcock.
    • Adeste Fideles: Christmas music from Westminster Cathedral.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Hans Pfitzner

    Palestrina (Prelude to Act 1)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • ORFEO.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Kyrie (Missa Papae Marcelli)

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • Gimell.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Fantaisie, Op.79

    Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Performer: Roland Pöntinen.
    • Cafe au Lait: Sharon Bezaly/Roland Pontinen.
    • BIS.
    • 14.

  • Breakfast Carol Competition 2019, carol no.2

    • Tom Dobney

      Go to the Child

      Choir: BBC Singers. Performer: Richard Pearce. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
      • BBC recording.

  • Ēriks Ešenvalds

    Only In Sleep

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Northern Lights and other Choral works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.

  • Charles Williams

    Dream of Olwen

    Performer: Philip Fowke. Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Proinnsías Ó Duinn.
    • Naxos.

  • Franz Schubert

    The Hurdy Gurdy Man (Winterreise, D.911)

    Singer: Harry Plunket Greene. Performer: Unknown.
    • EMI.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op.20`4 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.
    • Haydn: 6 Popular Quartets.
    • ASV.
    • 4.

  • Friday Poem

    • "My Mother's hair" written and read by Mona Arshi

  • Claude Debussy

    La fille aux cheveux de lin

    Music Arranger: Vadim Borisovsky. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Ashley Wass.
    • Pavane: Maxim Rysanov.
    • BIS.
    • 10.

  • Horacio Salgán

    Don Agustin Bardi

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Performer: Rodolfo Mederos. Performer: Héctor Console.
    • Mi Buenos Aires querido: Barenboim/Mederos/Console.
    • Teldec.
    • 4.

  • Terry Riley

    The Book of Abbeyozzud (Francesco in Paraiso)

    Performer: Tracy Silverman. Performer: David Tanenbaum.
    • New Albion.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Les Vepres siciliennes (Merce, dilette amiche [Bolero])

    Singer: Anna Netrebko. Choir: Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino. Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Jean Sibelius

    2 Serenades Op.69 (no.1 in D major)

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: André Previn.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Brass Quintet no.1, Op.73 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. Conductor: Howard Snell.
    • Malcolm Arnold.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Laideronnette, impératrice des Pagodes (Ma mère l'oye)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Yannick Nezet-Seguin Ravel Rotterdam Phiharmonic Orchestra.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 15.

  • Claude Debussy

    Dr Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's Corner)

    Performer: Simon Trpceski.
    • Debussy: Images/Children's Corner etc: Simon Trpceski.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.

  • Breakfast Carol Competition 2019, carol no.1

    • Chris Black

      Go to the Child

      Choir: BBC Singers. Performer: Richard Pearce. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
      • BBC recording.

  • John (Johnny) Patterson

    The Garden Where The Praties Grow

    Composer: Trad.. Music Arranger: Samuel Liddle. Singer: Harry Plunket Greene. Performer: Unnamed pianist.
    • The Irish Songbook.
    • Moidart Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No.4 (4th mvt)

    Singer: Barbara Bonney. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.

  • George Gershwin

    Prelude no.1

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Fri 13 Dec 201906:30
    BBC Radio 3