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Tuesday - Petroc Trelawny

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and suggestions for the annual musical advent calendar.

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and your suggestions for our annual musical Advent Calendar.

Back in August, amateur composers were invited to set a specially commissioned poem by Roger McGough called "Comes the Light". Listeners have been invited to vote for the overall winner and to vote for your favourite carol, go to bbc.co.uk/radio3. Voting closes today at 5pm.

Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 22 Dec 2015 06:30

Music Played

  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin (Prelude Act 1)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DG.
  • Carl Nielsen

    My Heart Roams Forever

    Music Arranger: Paul Hellmuth. Choir: Musica Ficta. Conductor: Bo Holten.
    • A Danish Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 12.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Much Ado About Nothing (Garden scene)

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: J茅r么me Ducros.
    • Capriccio - Violin Pieces.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 15.
  • Lars-Erik Larsson

    Chorus "Where gods have passed over, will blessing be spread"

    Author: Hjalmar Gullberg. Choir: Radiok枚ren. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846

    Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva.
    • OLYMPIA.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Football (Russian River Suite, Op 66)

    Performer: Rustem Hayroudinoff.
    • Chandos.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Homage March (Sigurd Jorsalfar)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.
    • Grieg: Symphonic Dances, etc.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 013.
  • Martin Carling

    Comes the Light

    Performer: Richard Pearce. Choir: 成人快手 Singers. Conductor: David Hill.
    • 成人快手 recording.
  • Jean Coulthard

    Bicycle Parade; The Departure (Excursion Ballet Suite)

    Orchestra: Symphony Nova Scotia. Conductor: Georg Tintner.
    • CBC.
  • Heikki Sarmanto

    Hanget soi (Singing Snow)

    Performer: Uki Ovaskainen. Choir: Tapiolan kuoro. Conductor: Kari Ala-P枚ll盲nen.
    • Ala Palana: Rainbow Sounds.
    • ONDINE.
    • 2.
  • Claude Debussy

    The Snow is Dancing (Children's Corner)

    Music Arranger: Isao Tomita. Performer: Isao Tomita.
    • Tomita: Snowflakes are dancing.
    • RCA.
    • 1.
  • Reginald Spofforth

    Hail, Smiling Morn

    Performer: Darius Battiwalla. Choir: Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Music Arranger: Darius Battiwalla.
    • Doyen.
  • Jakub Jan Ryba

    Agnus Dei; Zevera (Hail Master! Christmas Mass)

    Singer: Jaroslava Vymazalov谩. Singer: Marie Mr谩zov谩. Singer: Beno Blachut. Singer: Zden臎k Kroupa. Choir: Prague Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: V谩clav Smet谩膷ek.
    • FIDELIO.
  • Bernhard Crusell

    Introduction and Variations on a Swedish song Op.12

    Performer: Anne-Marja Korimaa. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • Ylesradio.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Helios Op.17

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Nielsen: Aladdin Suite etc: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Hostkvall [Autumn Evening] (Op.38 No.1) for voice and orchestra

    Singer: Soile Isokoski. Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leif Segerstam.
    • ONDINE.
  • Trad.

    Je elsker dae

    Singer: Sinikka Langeland.
  • Wilhelm Peterson鈥怋erger

    Gratulation (Frosoblomster, Op 16)

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • BIS.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Apres un reve, Op. 7 No. 1

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Fantasie.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Gustav Holst

    In the bleak midwinter

    Orchestra: Sellers Engineering Band. Conductor: Phillip McCann.
  • Diana Hamilton

    Comes the Light

    Performer: Richard Pearce. Choir: 成人快手 Singers. Conductor: David Hill.
    • 成人快手 recording.
  • Michel Corrette

    Les six symphonies de No毛l (Sinfonia No 1)

    Ensemble: La Fantasia. Director: Rien Voskuilen.
    • Corrette: Le Six SYmphonies de Noel.
    • BRILLIANT.
    • 1-4.
  • Mykola Leontovych

    Carol of the Bells; The Sleigh 脿 la Russe'

    Composer: Richard Kountz. Performer: Judy Loman. Music Arranger: Howard Cable. Choir: Toronto Children鈥檚 Chorus. Ensemble: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jean Ashworth Bartle.
    • CBC.
  • Tor Aulin

    1st Movement (Moderato marcato) from Swedish Dances for Orchestra (Op.32)

    Orchestra: G盲vle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Niklas Will茅n.
    • STERLING.

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