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Friday - Petroc's classical alarm call

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 20 Mar 2020 06:30

Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Spring Op.33 no.6

    Music Arranger: Elena Urioste. Music Arranger: Tom Poster. Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • To the Spring.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 401.
  • Frederick Delius

    On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • Sony.
  • Henry Purcell

    A Bird's Prelude (The Fairy Queen)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Anonymous

    Kyrie, Cuthbert prece

    Ensemble: Liber Unusualis.
    • Flyleaves, Medieval Music in English Manuscripts.
    • Passacaille.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata in E minor from BWV.526

    Ensemble: Florilegium. Director: Ashley Solomon.
    • J.S. Bach: Organ trio sonatas: Florilegium.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 16-18.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Hush, ye pretty warbling quire! (Acis and Galatea)

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Orchestra: Early Opera Company. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.
    • Chandos.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in G major D.894 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Shai Wosner.
    • ONYX.
  • Giovanni Croce

    Ove tra l'herba

    Ensemble: English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble.
    • RESONUS.
  • Trad.

    Sparrow

    Performer: Fu Ren-chang.
    • Yellow River.
  • J贸hann J贸hannsson

    A Sparrow Alighted Upon Our Shoulder

    Orchestra: Air Lyndhurst String Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Weeden.
    • DG.
  • Moondog

    Sparrow

    Performer: Moondog.
    • CBS.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Humoresque No.5 in E flat major

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd.
    • Prokofiev & Sibelius - Violin Concertos.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the dance

    Orchestrator: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • HYPERION.
  • Granville Bantock

    Song To The Seals

    Singer: Robert White. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Bird Songs At Eventide.
    • HELIOS.
    • 5.
  • Friday Poem

    • 'The Lamb' by William Blake read by Jill Balcon

  • John Tavener

    The Lamb

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Signum.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in A, BWV.864

    Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • LINN.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G minor, Op.23 no.5

    Performer: Sviatoslav Richter.
    • Sviatoslac Richter Vol. 7 - Rachmaninov.
    • Olympia.
    • 13.
  • Traditional American Spiritual

    Down by the riverside

    Singer: Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Ensemble: Sam Price Trio. Ensemble: The Dependable Boys.
    • Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
    • BIG3.
    • 03.
  • Richard Strauss

    Capriccio (Sextet)

    Ensemble: The Raphael Ensemble.
    • HELIOS.
  • Poldowski

    L'heure exquise

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Performer: J茅r么me Ducros.
    • Green - M茅lodies fran莽aises.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 128.
  • Gustav Holst

    March (A Moorside Suite)

    Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Garry Cutt.
    • Brass From The Masters Vol. 2:.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Reginald Connelly

    Up The Wooden Hill To Bedfordshire

    Composer: nixon grey. Singer: Vera Lynn. Performer: Arthur Young.
    • Vera Lynn - The Early Years, Vol. 1 (1936-1939).
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Spring, RV.269 [The Four Seasons]

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • CHANNEL.
  • Ned Rorem

    Rain in Spring

    Performer: Alisdair Hogarth. Singer: Tim Mead.
    • LINN.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet no.3 in D, Op.18`3 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Beethoven: Inventions 1.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 108.

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