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Your classical alarm call

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of the morning.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

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Wed 13 Dec 202306:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Trad.

    I Saw Three Ships

    Music Arranger: James Morgan. Music Arranger: Juliette Pochin. Choir: BBC Singers. Performer: Piano Hands. Conductor: James Morgan.
    • Carols Revisited - Christmas with the BBC Singers.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    In the Bottoms: Barcarolle (Morning)

    Performer: Rochelle Sennet.
    • Bach to Black: Suites for Piano.
    • Albany Records.
    • 27.

  • Dorothy Howell

    2 Pieces for Muted Strings

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Teresa Riveiro Böhm.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto in G Minor, BWV.1056R

    Performer: Thibault Noally. Ensemble: Les Accents.
    • Bach & Co.
    • Aparté.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Tarentelle Op.6

    Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Synergy.
    • BIS.
    • 201.

  • Trad.

    In dulci jubilo

    Music Arranger: Robert Lucas Pearsall. Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Nativitas, A celebration of peace: Choir of New College, Oxford/Higginbottom.
    • Erato.
    • 14.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Piano Quartet in A flat major (1st mvt: Allegro moderato)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet; Piano Quartet; Piano Trio.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • Frantizek Prochazka

    Valse Revee

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Václav Neumann.
    • Supraphon.

  • John Gardner

    Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

    Choir: The Sixteen. Performer: Ben Hoffnung. Performer: William Lockhart. Performer: Margaret Phillips. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Hodie - An English Christmas Collection.
    • Coro.
    • 25.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Seal Lullaby

    Performer: Zoe Hancock. Performer: Black Dyke Band. Music Arranger: Paul Sharman. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • Black Dyke Gold Volume VII.
    • Doyen.

  • Mykola Leontovych

    The Grey Cuckoo

    Performer: William Spaulding. Choir: Songs for Ukraine Choir.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

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

    Performer: Dmitri Maximovich Shostakovich. Orchestra: I Musici de Montréal. Conductor: Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • The Wilderness Yet

    Old Jacky Frost

    Performer: The Wilderness Yet.
    • Scribe Records.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    10 Preludes Op.23 (no.10 in G flat major)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance no.6 in B flat major

    Orchestrator: Albert Parlow. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Brahms: Hungarian Dances &Dvorak: Slavonic Dances: Haitink.
    • Philips.
    • 6.

  • Trad.

    Sankta Lucia

    • En Klassisk Jul, Vol. 2.
    • Blank.
    • 15.

  • Hugo Alfvén

    Herdmaiden's Dance (The Mountain King)

    Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Alfven: Symhony no.5: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra/Jarvi.
    • BIS.
    • 4.

  • Traditional Swedish

    Nu tändas tusen juleljus

    Orchestra: Göteborgs symfonietta. Choir: Leif Strands Damkör. Conductor: Jerker Johansson.
    • When You Wish Upon a Star (GöteborgsMusiken).
    • Naxos Sweden.
    • 7.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker Suite (Russian Dance, 'Trepak')

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Serenade For Strings; Neville Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 4.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker Suite (Arabian Dance)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Serenade For Strings; Neville Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 5.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker Suite (Chinese Dance)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Serenade For Strings; Neville Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 6.

  • François Couperin

    Second livre de pièces de clavecin, Ordre 7: No. 3, La Basque

    Performer: Jory Vinikour.
    • L'unique.
    • Cedille.
    • 206.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto No.2 in D major - 3rd mvt Rondo (Allegro)

    Performer: Maximilian Hornung. Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Conductor: Antonello Manacorda.
    • Sony.

  • Catrin Finch

    Wish

    Composer: Trad.. Performer: Aoife Ní Bhriain. Performer: Catrin Finch.
    • Double You.
    • ARC Music Productions International Ltd.
    • 9.

  • Franz Xaver Gruber

    Tawel nos [ Silent Night ]

    Lyricist: Josef Mohr. Music Arranger: Chris Hazell. Conductor: Tecwyn Evans. Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra.
    • Carols & Christmas Songs.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata no.21 in C major Op.53 'Waldstein' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Locus Iste

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: David Hill.

Broadcast

  • Wed 13 Dec 202306:30
    BBC Radio 3