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Wednesday - Petroc's classical picks

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

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Wed 1 Sep 202106:30
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Music Played

  • Gustav Holst

    A Fugal Concerto, Op 40 No 2

    Performer: Richard Adeney. Performer: Peter Graeme. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Imogen Holst.
    • BBC LEGENDS.

  • Tarik O’Regan

    Locus iste

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Director: Timothy Brown.
    • Tarik O'Regan - Voices.
    • Collegium Records.
    • 13.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Sailing at dawn (Songs of the Fleet, Op.117)

    Singer: Gerald Finley. Choir: BBC National Chorus of Wales. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Stanford: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and fugue in G major BWV.541 for organ

    Performer: Peter Hurford.
    • EMI.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade, Op 35 (The Young Prince and Princess)

    Performer: Maria Larionoff. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz. Orchestra: Seattle Symphony.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Unsent love letters

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quartet in E flat, Op.47 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov. Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Franz Schubert

    Die Post (Winterreise)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Performer: Helmut Deutsch.
    • Schubert Winterreise.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
    • 13.

  • Josef Strauss

    The Dragonfly Op.204

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Margaret Hubicki

    From the Isles of the Sea

    Performer: Daniel Pailthorpe. Performer: James Kirby.
    • Hubicki: Chamber Music.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.

  • John Tavener

    Mother and Child

    Music Arranger: Matthew Barley. Performer: Matthew Barley. Orchestra: Sinfonietta Rīga.
    • Tavener: The Protecting Veil.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 401.

  • Richard Wagner

    Tristan und Isolde Act III (excerpt)

    Singer: Neal Cooper. Singer: Miina-Liisa Värelä. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    L'Italiana in Algeri: Overture

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Rossini: Complete Overtures: Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 9.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    An die ferne Geliebte, Op.98: no.5 Es kehret der Maien; no.6 Nimm sie hin denn

    Singer: Christian Gerhaher. Performer: Gerold Huber.
    • Christian Gerhaher Ferner Geliebte Beethoven Berg Haydn Schonberg.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Leos Janáček

    String Quartet No 2, 'Intimate Letters' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Newton Classics.

  • Leroy Anderson

    The Typewriter

    Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • Mercury Living Presence - The Collector's Edition 2.
    • MERCURY.
    • 7.

  • James P. Johnson

    Victory Stride

    Orchestra: The Concordia Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Nimbus.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    The Bells, Op.35 (1st mvt)

    Singer: Dmytro Popov. Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Rachmaninov: The Bells. Symphonic Dances.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Night Mail (end sequence)

    Author: W. H. Auden. Narrator: Nigel Hawthorne. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble. Conductor: Lionel Friend.
    • Britten: Night Mail etc..
    • Hyperion.
    • 28.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sull' aria...Che soave zefiretto (The Marriage of Figaro)

    Singer: Gundula Janowitz. Singer: Edith Mathis. Orchestra: Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin. Conductor: Karl Böhm.
    • SONY.

  • Jean‐Joseph de Mondonville

    Sonate en symphonie in F major Op.3 no.2

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.

Broadcast

  • Wed 1 Sep 202106:30
    BBC Radio 3