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Friday - Petroc's classical picks

The BBC Singers join Petroc Trelawny as he announces the winner of the Breakfast Carol Competition. Also featuring listener requests and Bach Before Seven for Christmas.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

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Fri 23 Dec 202206:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Cecilia McDowall

    O Antiphon Sequence: VII. O Emmanuel

    Performer: William Fox.
    • Cecilia McDowall: Organ Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 307.

  • Anon.

    Veni, veni, Emmanuel

    Performer: The Sixteen.
    • A Renaissance Christmas.
    • CORO.
    • 5.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in G Op.3`3

    Ensemble: Combattimento. Conductor: Jan Willem de Vriend.
    • Challenge Classics.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Carnival Waltz, Op.73

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Peter Jablonski.
    • Mots D' Amour.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 29.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata no. 62 BWV.62; 1. Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Chorus)

    Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Director: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Edward Elgar

    La capricieuse Op.17

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Elizabeth Poston

    Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

    Choir: The Finzi Singers. Conductor: Paul Spicer.
    • Abacus.

  • Traditional Irish

    Apples in Winter - Frost Is All Over - A Merry Christmas (Jigs)

    Performer: Eileen Ivers.
    • An Nollaig – An Irish Christmas.
    • Compass.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in D major K.250 'Haffner' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Gordan Nikolitch. Orchestra: Nederlands Kamerorkest.
    • Mozart: Famous Pieces.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 1701.

  • Felix Bernard

    Winter Wonderland

    Performer: Chet Baker. Performer: Russ Freeman. Performer: Joe Mondragon. Performer: Shelly Manne.
    • Vogue Records.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    St Paul, Op.3 (Overture)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

    Quære Reliqua Hujus Materiei Inter Secretiora, KSS 62 [extract]

    Performer: Donna Amato.
    • Sorabji: Piano Music.
    • Altarus Records.
    • 1.

  • Alan Jay Lerner

    On The Street Where You Live

    Composer: Frederick Loewe. Performer: Geoff Gascoyne. Featured Artist: Claire Martin.
    • Voices Of Spring.
    • Jazzizit Records.
    • 7.

  • FRIDAY POEM

    "Christmas" by John Betjeman. read by Andrew Sachs

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Fantasy on Christmas Carols (from the film "The Holly and the Ivy")

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Arnold: Film Music, Volume 2: Dyson, BBC Phil, Gamba.
    • Chandos.
    • 23.

  • Johann Strauss II

    The Blue Danube

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • New Year's Concert 2004: Wiener Philharmoniker/Muti.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 14.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Out of your sleep arise and wake

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

  • Matthew Curtis

    Christmas Rush

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Another Night Before Christmas.
    • NAXOS.
    • 9.

  • Philip Ledger

    Still, still, still

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

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Hänsel und Gretel (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • German Operetta Overtures: Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 5.

  • Maurice Walters

    The Winter's Brightening

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

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No 1 in D major, Op 25, 'Classical' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Prokofiev: Symphonies nos. 5 & 1: Tilson Thomas.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor, BWV 1052 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sir András Schiff. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Director: Sir András Schiff.
    • Piano Masterworks The World's Favourite Piano Classics.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Trad.

    Ding! Dong! Merrily on High (arr Wood)

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

Broadcast

  • Fri 23 Dec 202206:30
    BBC Radio 3