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Radio 3 Carol Competition 2022

Penny Gore with an afternoon of festive music, including live performance from the BBC Singers, with the six finalists in the BBC Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition.

Penny Gore presents an afternoon of festive music from BBC ensembles and around Europe. Today, including a live performance from the BBC Singers at Maida Vale Studios presented by Petroc Trelawny, during which we hear the six finalists in this year's BBC Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition.

Including:

Delius - Sleigh Ride
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

c. 2.15pm
Veracini - Overture for orchestra No.6 in G minor
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Maurice Steger (conductor)

2.30pm
LIVE
Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Singers live in Maida Vale studios for a festive concert featuring the six finalists in the 2021 Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition

c.3.45pm
Franck - Rédemption [Interlude Symphonique]
Orchestre Nationale de France
Andris Poga (conductor)

2 hours, 31 minutes

Last on

Mon 19 Dec 202214:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Frederick Delius

    Sleigh Ride

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.

  • Sammy Kahn

    Let it Snow

    Composer: Jule Styne. Performer: Louise Dearman. Performer: Matthew Ford. Music Arranger: Andrew Cottee. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Andrew Cottee.

  • Francesco Maria Veracini

    Overture for orchestra No.6 in G minor

    Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Maurice Steger.

  • Frank Bridge

    Valse intermezzo

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Bridge: Orchestral works vol.5: BBC NOW/Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 14.

  • Janet Wheeler

    Ding dong diggety!

    Ensemble: BBC Singers. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.

  • Janet Wheeler

    Ding Dong diggety!

    Ensemble: BBC Singers. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.

  • Hilary Ashworth

    Carol No.1: Winter's Brightening

    Performer: Richard Pearce. Ensemble: BBC Singers. Ensemble: New Young Voice Collective. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.

  • Helen Neeves

    Cradle Song

    Performer: Kathy Nicholson. Performer: Richard Pearce.

  • David Bentley

    Carol No.2: Winter's Brightening

    Performer: Richard Pearce. Ensemble: BBC Singers. Ensemble: New Young Voice Collective. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.

  • Bob Chilcott

    Winter [Times and Seasons]

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

  • Franz Liszt

    Weihnachtsbaum No.3

    Performer: Richard Pearce.

  • Donna Deam

    Carol No.3: Winter's Brightening

    Performer: Richard Pearce. Ensemble: BBC Singers. Ensemble: New Young Voice Collective. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.

  • Trad. South African

    Indodana

    Music Arranger: Michael Barrett. Music Arranger: Ralf Schmitt. Ensemble: New Young Voices Collective. Conductor: Naveen Arles.

  • Sarah Hutchinson

    Carol No.4: Winter's Brightening

    Performer: Richard Pearce. Ensemble: BBC Singers. Ensemble: New Young Voice Collective. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Blow, blow thou winter wind

    Performer: Edward Price. Performer: Richard Pearce.

  • Kristina Arakelyan

    Ave Maris Stella

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

  • Fraser Sharp

    Carol No.5: Winter's Brightening

    Performer: Richard Pearce. Ensemble: BBC Singers. Ensemble: New Young Voice Collective. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.

  • June Collin

    The Quiet Heart

    Ensemble: BBC Singers. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.

  • Maurice Walters

    Carol No.6: Winter's Brightening

    Performer: Richard Pearce. Ensemble: BBC Singers. Ensemble: New Young Voice Collective. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.

  • Thomas Hewitt Jones

    Carol of the Shepherds

    Ensemble: BBC Singers. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.

  • César Franck

    Rédemption [Interlude Symphonique]

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Andris Poga.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G major, K 525, 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik'

    Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Concentus Musicus Wien/Harnoncourt.
    • Teldec.
    • 1.

  • Franz Liszt

    Adestes fideles (Weihnachtsbaum)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Franz Liszt: The Christmas Tree: Alfred Brendel.
    • Philips.
    • 4.

  • Andrew Cottee

    Swingin' Christmas Overture

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Andrew Cottee.

Broadcast

  • Mon 19 Dec 202214:00
    BBC Radio 3