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Start the day with classical music

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and two shortlisted entries from the Carol Competition.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

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Wed 20 Dec 202306:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Kinderszenen, Op. 15

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: 7. Träumerei.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Marc‐Antoine Charpentier

    O Clavis David

    Ensemble: Ensemble Correspondances. Director: Sébastien Daucé.
    • Charpentier: Pastorale de Noël.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 28.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Double Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Performer: Daniel Müller‐Schott. Orchestra: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • Pentatone.

  • Judith Weir

    Drop down, ye heavens, from above

    Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.
    • Advent at Merton.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 5.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Oboe Concerto in G minor BWV.1056R

    Performer: Xenia Löffler. Ensemble: Collegium 1704. Director: Václav Luks.
    • JS Bach: Oboe Concertos & Cantatas.
    • ACCENT.
    • 1-3.

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque no.1 in E major

    Performer: Zoltán Kocsis.
    • Philips.

  • Jean de Brébeuf

    Iesous Ahatonnia - the Huron Carol

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien. Director: François Lazarevitch. Choir: Maîtrise de Radio France. Director: Sofi Jeannin.
    • ALPHA.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Violin Sonata in E, Op. 5 No 11

    Performer: Lina Tur Bonet. Ensemble: Musica Alchemica.
    • PAN CLASSICS.

  • Harold Edwin Darke

    In the Bleak Midwinter

    Performer: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Performer: Simon Bell. Conductor: Andrew Lumsden.
    • REGENT.

  • Gustav Holst

    In the Bleak Midwinter

    Music Arranger: Graham Fitkin. Performer: Ruth Wall.
    • GFR.

  • POEM

    Extract from Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 5, scene 2, by Shakespeare, Read by Robert Donat

  • Cosmo Sheldrake

    Owl Song

    Performer: Cosmo Sheldrake.
    • TARDIGRADE RECORDS.

  • Björk

    Frosti

    Performer: Björk.
    • ELEKTRA.

  • Becky McGlade

    In the Bleak Midwinter

    Choir: Truro Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
    • REGENT.

  • George Gershwin

    Girl Crazy: I got rhythm

    Music Arranger: Iain Farrington. Ensemble: Art Deco Trio.
    • SOMM.

  • JUNIOR Carol 4 - Isabelle

    Polaris

    Performer: Iain Farrington. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Nicholas Chalmers.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Op.27

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

  • Franz Schubert

    Winterreise D911 - Der Leiermann

    Performer: Nataša Mirković-De Ro.
    • Raumklang.

  • Matthias Loibner

    Augenblick

    • Lichtungen.
    • TRAUMTON.
    • 6.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude (Suite No. 1 in G, BWV 1007)

    Performer: Lynn Harrell.
    • On Chesil Beach.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 20.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis and Chloe (extract)

    Performer: Adam Walker. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Complete Ballet).
    • Chandos.
    • 112.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Surrey with the fringe on top (Oklahoma)

    Composer: Oscar Hammerstein II. Singer: Marlene Dietrich.
    • The Very Best Of Marlene Dietrich.
    • Disconforme.
    • 7.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.25 in C major K.503 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos nos. 24 & 25, Uchida, English Chamber Orchestra, Tate.
    • Philips.

  • Peter Warlock

    Bethlehem Down

    Author: Bruce Blunt. Conductor: Harry Christophers. Ensemble: The Sixteen.
    • Song of the Nativity.
    • CORO.
    • 5.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz, Op 64 No 1, 'Minute'

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Chopin: Waltzes: Tharaud.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 12.

  • SENIOR Carol 4 - Clare Welfare

    Polaris

    Choir: BBC Singers. Performer: Iain Farrington. Conductor: Nicholas Chalmers.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.4 in B flat major Op.60 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 8.

  • Trad.

    Hollyberry song (Sans Day Carol)

    Music Arranger: Kerry Andrew. Choir: Juice Vocal Ensemble.
    • RESONUS.

  • Trad.

    Sans Day Carol

    Music Arranger: Graham Fitkin. Performer: Ruth Wall.
    • GFR.

  • Trad.

    The Holly And The Ivy

    Music Arranger: Henry Walford Davies. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • KINGS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE.

  • Trad.

    The Holly And The Ivy

    Music Arranger: Graham Fitkin. Performer: Ruth Wall.
    • GFR.

  • King Henry VIII of England

    Green grow'th the holly, so doth the Ivy

    Performer: Charles Daniels. Ensemble: Capella de la Torre. Performer: Katharina Bäuml.
    • CARPE DIEM.

  • Henry Mancini

    Moon River

    Lyricist: Johnny Mercer. Performer: Audrey Hepburn.
    • BIG SCREEN.

  • Duke Ellington

    It don’t mean a thing (if it ain’t got that swing)

    Performer: Ivie Anderson. Orchestra: The Duke Ellington Orchestra.
    • ASV.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Nocturne

    Performer: Brandon Patrick George. Performer: Simon Lepper.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    Go from my window

    Performer: Susanna Pell. Performer: Asako Morikawa. Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Gibbons: Consorts for Viols.
    • Avie.
    • 21.

Broadcast

  • Wed 20 Dec 202306:30
    BBC Radio 3