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Friday - Petroc's classical picks

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

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Fri 21 Aug 202006:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Sunrise Mass [The Spheres] (Kyrie Eleison)

    Choir: Phoenix Chorale. Conductor: Charles Bruffy.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Catriona McKay

    Swan LK243

    Performer: Catriona McKay. Performer: Donald Grant. Ensemble: Red Skies string ensemble.
    • Glimster.

  • Josef Myslivecek

    Wind Octet no.2 in E flat major

    Ensemble: Budapest Wind Ensemble.
    • Hungaroton.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Erbarme dich (St Matthew Passion BWV.244)

    Singer: Daniel Taylor. Ensemble: Theatre of Early Music. Director: Daniel Taylor.
    • RCA.

  • Ferenc Farkas

    Aria e Rondo all'ungherese

    Performer: János Rolla. Orchestra: Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra. Director: János Rolla.
    • Farkas - Orchestral Music, Vol 3.
    • Toccata Classics.
    • 027.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto no.2 in F major Op.102 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hugh Wolff.
    • Warsaw Concerto: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Will Todd

    The Birthday Quartet (In God My Hope)

    Ensemble: Santiago Quartet. Performer: Julian Rowlands.
    • Language Of The Heart.
    • Arrastre.
    • 10.

  • Trad. Northumbrian

    Ca' Hawkie Through the Watter

    Music Arranger: David Haslam. Singer: Sir Thomas Allen. Choir: Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: David Haslam.
    • Songs of Northumbria Vol. 1.
    • MWM.
    • 3.

  • Trad. Northumbrian

    O' Aa Hae Seen the Roses Blaa

    Music Arranger: David Haslam. Singer: Sir Thomas Allen. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: David Haslam.
    • Songs of Northumbria Volume 1.
    • MWM.
    • 5.

  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March in G major, Op.39 no.4

    Conductor: Georg Solti. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Elgar: Enigma variations/Pomp and circumstance marches: Solti.
    • Decca.

  • Proms Time Capsule

    • Ira Sankey

      Only Remembered (War Horse)

      Music Arranger: Adrian Sutton. Music Arranger: John Tams. Music Arranger: Harvey Brough. Singer: Tim van Eyken. Choir: Proms Military Wives Choir. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: David Charles Abell.
      • BBC Proms recording from 3rd August 2014.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion (Messiah)

    Singer: Susan Hamilton. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort & Players. Director: John Butt.
    • Handel: Messiah: Dunedin Consort & Players.
    • Linn.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Mazurka In B flat minor, Op.24 no.4

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Chopin: Mazurkas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 010.

  • Friday Poem

    • 'Unrest' written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, read by Bonnie Hurren

  • Duke Ellington

    Solitude in Transblucency

    Composer: Eddie DeLange. Music Arranger: Lawrence Brown. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • American Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 310.

  • Josef Strauss

    Music of the Spheres, Op.235

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • 1992 New Year's Concert.
    • SONY Classical.
    • 10.

  • Richard Addinsell

    March of the United Nations

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn.
    • WHITE LINE.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Dumbarton Oaks (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Igor Stravinsky.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Edward MacDowell

    To a wild rose (10 Woodland Sketches Op.51)

    Performer: Dame Moura Lympany.
    • Best-Loved Piano Classics: Lympany.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Joseph Haydn

    The heavens are telling (The Creation)

    Singer: Sarah Tynan. Singer: Jeremy Ovenden. Singer: Matthew Brook. Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    String Quartet no.6 in A minor, Op.122 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Dante Quartet.
    • Stanford: String Quartets.
    • SOMM RECORDINGS.

  • Craig Armstrong

    The Martyrdom Variations (Mvts 1-3)

    Composer: Calum Martin. Performer: Daniel Pioro. Singer: Isobel Ann Martin. Orchestra: Scottish Ensemble. Conductor: Cecilia Weston.
    • The Edge of the Sea.
    • BMG.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    On Wings of Song, Op.34 no.2

    Singer: Janet Baker. Performer: Geoffrey Parsons.
    • The Very Best Of: Janet Baker.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 17.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Sabre Dance; Ayesha's Dance; Lezghinka (Gayane)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.
    • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Fri 21 Aug 202006:30
    BBC Radio 3