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Friday - Petroc's classical rise and shine

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring our musical Advent Calendar, the next of our American Portraits, music complementing Radio 3's series, ‘The Way I See It’. Also including our regular Friday Poem and listener requests.

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Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    Standchen [Leise Flehen]

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Mendelssohn etc: Songs without words: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Sonata in A minor, BuxWV.272

    Performer: William Dongois. Ensemble: Le Concert Brisé.
    • Sonatas with Cornett.
    • Accent.
    • 9.

  • St. Godric

    Sainte Nicholaes

    Music Arranger: Anonymous 4. Ensemble: Anonymous 4.
    • Legends of St. Nicholas.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 16.

  • Orlande de Lassus

    Beatus Nicolaus

    Ensemble: Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal. Conductor: Andrew McAnerney.
    • Laudate Dominum.
    • Atma Classique.
    • 09.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto movement for violin and 3 trumpets in D, BWV.1045

    Performer: Adrian Chandler. Ensemble: La Serenissima.
    • The Godfather.
    • Signum.
    • 07.

  • Lennox Berkeley

    Sonatina, Op.17 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Fenella Humphreys. Performer: Nicola Eimer.
    • So Many Stars.
    • Stone.
    • 03.

  • Francesca Caccini

    Non sò se quel sorriso

    Singer: Shannon Mercer. Performer: Sylvain Bergeron. Performer: Amanda Keesmaat. Performer: Luc Beauséjour.
    • Francesca Caccini: O Viva Rosa.
    • Analekta.
    • 2.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Oboe Sonata in D major

    Performer: Gareth Hulse. Performer: Ian Brown.
    • HYPERION.

  • Giorgio Mainerio

    Gagliarda, Schiarazula Marazula, Ungarescha & Saltarello

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • ALPHA.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Figaro - concert transcription of 'Largo al factotum' ('Il barbiere di Siviglia)

    Music Arranger: Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco. Performer: Aleksey Semenenko. Performer: Inna Firsova.
    • BBC New Generation Artists recording.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Saint Nicolas Op.42 (The Birth of Nicolas)

    Singer: Allan Clayton. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Choir: Holst Singers. Choir: Boys of the Temple Church Choir. Ensemble: City of London Sinfonia.
    • A Ceremony of Carols.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet for piano and winds K.452 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland. Ensemble: Oslo Kammerakademi.
    • LAWO.

  • Francisco Tárrega

    Etude in A major

    Performer: Julian Bream.
    • SONY.

  • Friday Poem

    • "The Galloping Cat" written and read by Stevie Smith

  • Leroy Anderson

    The Waltzing Cat

    Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • Fennell Conducts Leroy Anderson.
    • Mercury.
    • 03.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    On Wenlock Edge

    Performer: Huw Watkins. Singer: Mark Padmore. Ensemble: Members of Britten Sinfonia.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Solo Violin Sonata no.1 in G minor, BWV.1001 (Adagio)

    Performer: Zoë Beyers.
    • BBC Radio Shropshire recording.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.3 in E flat major, Op.55 'Eroica' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.
    • 8.

  • Andrew Wilson

    Caramelita (Suite of Sweets)

    Ensemble: Gelächter Trio.
    • OBOE CLASSICS.

  • Edgar Meyer

    Tarnation

    Composer: Chris Thile. Performer: Chris Thile. Performer: Edgar Meyer.
    • NONESUCH.

  • Elliott Carter

    Elegy

    Performer: Richard O'Neill. Performer: Anna Polonsky.
    • American Chamber Music - James Ehnes - SCMS.
    • Onyx.
    • 8.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto in B flat major, Op.4`2

    Performer: Richard Egarr. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • Handel: Organ Concertos Op.4: Academy of Ancient Music/Egarr.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5-8.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Lilacs Op.21`5

    Performer: Sergey Rachmaninov.
    • Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff - Solo Works and Transcriptions.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 13.

  • William Rimmer

    Punchinello

    Performer: Black Dyke Band.
    • World Famous Marches.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

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