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Breakfast Carol Competition shortlist

Live from 成人快手 Maida Vale, Petroc Trelawny presents the 成人快手 Singers performing the shortlisted entries in this year鈥檚 Breakfast Carol Competition. Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk

Live from the 成人快手 Maida Vale Studios in London, Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, announcing the six shortlisted entries in the 2018 Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition. This year, we challenged amateur composers to create new music for The Bee Carol, a poem by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. The 成人快手 Singers directed by Bob Chilcott perform the shortlisted carols live in the studio, and listeners are invited to vote for the overall winner. To vote for your favourite carol go to bbc.co.uk/radio3. Voting opens at 9am today and closes at 5pm on December 20th, with the winner being announced in Breakfast on Friday December 21st.

Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Wed 12 Dec 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    脡l茅gie Op.24

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Pascal Devoyon.
    • RCA.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Sinfonia in F major TWV.50:3

    Performer: Peter Holtslag. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Telemann: Recorder Concertos: Peter Holtslag, The Parley of Instruments.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.

  • Franz Schubert

    Entr'acte in B fjat major (Rosamunde, D 797)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Pierre Monteux.
    • DECCA.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor, BWV 863 (Book 1, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Till Fellner.
    • J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Till Fellner.
    • ECM.
    • 11-12.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Norwegian Dance Op.35 no.1

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • NAXOS.

  • Philip Ledger

    The voice of the angel Gabriel (first recording)

    Performer: Jonathan Vaughn. Ensemble: Wells Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Matthew Owens.
    • Jingle Wells.
    • REGENT.
    • 3.

  • Gillian Whitehead

    Torua

    Performer: Jind艡ich Pazdera. Performer: Patricia Goodson.
    • RATTLE.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Sextet in D minor

    Performer: Louise Williams. Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.
    • ASV.

  • Kenneth Leighton

    Missa De Gloria - VI. Ite, Missa Est

    Performer: Stephen Farr.
    • Resonus Classics : RES10178.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 14.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Rose Adagio (The Sleeping Beauty Op.66)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake; Sleeping Beauty; The Nutcracker - Highlights.
    • EMI.
    • 7.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in C major, Op.10 no.1

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    A Night on the Bare Mountain

    Orchestrator: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition etc.: Jansons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 16.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Cantata No 140)

    Music Arranger: Andreas N. Tarkmann. Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Choir: Trinity Baroque. Orchestra: The English Concert.
    • Voices of Bach: Albrecht Meyer.
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • Claude Debussy

    Tarantelle styrienne

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • Debussy: Preludes Books I & II: Zoltan Kocsis.
    • Philips.
    • 21.

  • Richard Galloway

    The Bee Carol

    Choir: 成人快手 Singers. Performer: Richard Pearce. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
    • Live performance.

  • David Hughes

    The Bee Carol

    Choir: 成人快手 Singers. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
    • Live performance.

  • 脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Gigue in G major (Pi猫ces de clavecin, 1707)

    Performer: Karen Flint.
    • Jacquet de la Guerre: Complete Works for Harpsichord.
    • Plectra.
    • 12.

  • 脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Menuet in G major (Pi猫ces de clavecin, 1707)

    Performer: Karen Flint.
    • Jacquet de la Guerre: Complete Works for Harpsichord.
    • Plectra.
    • 13.

  • Aaron Copland

    Fanfare for the Common Man

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • The Copland Collection.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Matthew Jackson

    The Bee Carol

    Choir: 成人快手 Singers. Conductor: Bob Chilcott. Performer: Richard Pearce.
    • Live performance.

  • John Merrick

    The Bee Carol

    Choir: 成人快手 Singers. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
    • Live performance.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 19 in E flat major, K 132 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: 8 Bit.
    • Dacapo.

  • Joy Williams

    The Bee Carol

    Choir: 成人快手 Singers. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
    • Live performance.

  • Andrew Woodward

    The Bee Carol

    Choir: 成人快手 Singers. Performer: Richard Pearce. Conductor: Bob Chilcott.
    • Live performance.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in C major, Op 33 No 5

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Philips.

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  • Wed 12 Dec 2018 06:30
    成人快手 Radio 3

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