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Thursday - Petroc's classical picks

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and music to celebrate twilight.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

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Thu 28 Oct 202106:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mass in C minor K.427 'Great' (Et incarnatus est)

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Impromptu in B minor, Op.5 no.5

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.

  • Heino Eller

    Videvik (Twilight) - Tone Poem

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Music from Estonia vol.2.
    • Chandos.
    • 006.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto, BWV.978 (after Vivaldi's Violin Concerto RV.310)

    Performer: Nicanor Zabaleta. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Luis Antonio García Navarro.
    • DG.

  • William Boyce

    Symphony No.1 in B flat major

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • William Boyce: 8 Symphonies: The English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 4-6.

  • Tan Dun

    Eight Memories in Watercolour, Op.1: No.7 Floating Clouds; No.3 Herdboy's Song

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Lang Lang - Live at Carnegie Hall.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Khovanshchina (Prelude [Dawn over the Moscow River])

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Accentus Music.

  • Michael Tippett

    Concerto for Double String Orchestra (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Orchestra: Bath Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Rudolf Barshai.
    • EMI.

  • Hariprasad Chaurasia

    Raga Lalit

    Performer: Hariprasad Chaurasia. Performer: Shafaat Ahmed Khan.
    • Golden Raga Collection.
    • TIMES MUSIC.
    • 1.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    La boutique fantasque (Tarantella)

    Orchestra: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Rossini-Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque - Davis.
    • CBS.
    • 2.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Deux Poemes de Louis Aragon

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Laurence Kilsby.
    • STONE RECORDS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in F major, Op 33 No 3

    Performer: John Lill.
    • Beethoven: Complete Bagatelles.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Love unrequited... When you're lying awake (Iolanthe)

    Performer: Richard Suart. Librettist: W. S. Gilbert. Orchestra: D’Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: John Pryce‐Jones.
    • That's Entertainment.

  • Hans Christian Lumbye

    Champagne Galop Op.14

    Orchestra: Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Giordano Bellincampi.
    • MARCO POLO.

  • Robert Schumann

    Carnaval: Arlequin - Valse noble - Eusebius

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Harry Lauder

    Roamin' in the Gloamin'

    Singer: Harry Lauder. Ensemble: Band.

  • Richard Wagner

    Das Liebesverbot (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Wagner: Overtures and Preludes.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Take o Take Those Lips Away (7 Shakespeare Songs)

    Singer: Wanda Brister. Performer: Timothy Hoekman.
    • Songs of Madeleine Dring.
    • Cambria.
    • 8.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Concerto in A minor Op.40 for cello and orchestra: 3rd mvt; Adagio - rondo..

    Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Lennox Berkeley

    Nelson (excerpt)

    Singer: David Johnston. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Elgar Howarth.
    • LYRITA.

  • Robert Russell Bennett

    Rag (Suite of Old American Dances)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Bennett: Works for Wind Orchestra.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Dance of Gaditanae, Victory of Spartacus (Spartacus Suite No 1)

    Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.
    • Khachaturian/Ravel: Orchestral Suites: St Petersburg Philharmonic Orch/Temirkano.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Thu 28 Oct 202106:30
    BBC Radio 3

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