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Friday - Petroc's classical commute

Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Friday poem and continuing our celebration of the Commonwealth Games. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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

Also, every day this week on Breakfast we celebrate the Commonwealth Games 2022 taking place in Birmingham, with a piece by a composer from the Commonwealth. Ranging from Africa to the Caribbean and North America, from Malta in the Mediterranean to New Zealand, we explore the rich musical heritage of the Commonwealth nations.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 5 Aug 2022 06:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Guillaume Dufay

    In medeo ecclesiae (Mass for St Anthony of Padua)

    Performer: The Binchois Consort. Conductor: Andrew Kirkman.
    • Helios.

  • Donald Tovey

    Sonata for 2 Cellos in G Major - II Andante Maestoso e sostenuto

    Performer: Alice Neary. Performer: Kate Gould.
    • Toccata Classics.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Concerto no.1 in E major for 2 pianos (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Marielle Labèque. Performer: Katia Labèque. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Mendelssohn: Concerto for 2 Pianos & Orchestra: Katia & Marielle Labeque / Bychk.
    • Philips.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Cantata no.140)

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: Cantatas 52: Bach Collegium Japan/Suzuki.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F D.803 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Anne Katharina Schreiber. Performer: Danusha Waskiewicz. Performer: Kristin von der Goltz. Performer: Lorenzo Coppola. Performer: Javier Zafra. Performer: Teunis van der Zwart. Performer: James Munro.
    • Schubert: Oktett.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 105.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Duo seraphim (Vespro della Beata Vergine)

    Director: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata.
    • C. Monteverdi : Vespro della Beata Vergine - 1610: Christina Pluhar/L'Arpeggiata.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 7.

  • Franz Schubert

    Ständchen (Schwanengesang)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Elegiac Melody No 1, Op 34, 'Herzwunden'

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique Bátiz.
    • Orchestral Lollipops: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Enrique Batiz.
    • RPO.
    • 12.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Ondine (Gaspard de la nuit)

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Singer: Renée Fleming. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Renee Fleming: By Request.
    • Decca.
    • 9.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Septet in E flat major Op.65 (Preambule)

    Performer: David Guerrier. Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Frank Braley. Performer: Béatrice Muthelet. Performer: Esther Hoppe. Performer: Janne Saksala.
    • Saint-Saens: Carnaval des Animaux: Capucon/Pahud/Meyer/Dalberto/Braley.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 19.

  • Franz Schubert

    Eifersucht und Stolz, D 795 No 15 (Die schöne Müllerin)

    Performer: Helmut Deutsch. Singer: Jonas Kaufmann.
    • Jonas Kaufman Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin.
    • Decca.
    • 15.

  • FRIDAY POEM

    Afternoons, written and recited by Philip Larkin

  • Imogen Holst

    The Fall of the Leaf

    Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • Hyperion.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Overture)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Vincent d’Indy

    Clarinet Trio in B-Flat Major, Op. 29 - II. Divertissement. Vif et animé

    Performer: Daniel Ottensamer. Performer: Stephan Koncz. Performer: Christoph Traxler.
    • The Clarinet Trio Anthology.
    • Universal Music GmbH.
    • 41.

  • Alfred Schnittke

    Choral Concerto (4th mvt)

    Choir: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Conductor: Kaspars Putniņš.
    • Schnittke & Pärt: Choral Works (2).
    • BIS.
    • 104.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    String Quartet No. 1 in E minor 'From My Life' - IV. Vivace

    Ensemble: Wihan Quartet.
    • Nimbus.

  • Stewart Goodyear

    Callaloo (Panorama)

    Performer: Stewart Goodyear. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Wayne Marshall.
    • Gershwin & Goodyear.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 1.

  • Percy Whitlock

    Spade and Bucket Polka (Holiday Suite)

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Marco Polo.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Young Apollo Op.16

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Fünf Lieder (5), Op. 47 - 1. Botschaft

    Performer: Bruno Walter. Singer: Kathleen Ferrier.
    • Decca.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance Op.46 no.4 in F major

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Brahms: Hungarian Dances &Dvorak: Slavonic Dances: Haitink.
    • Philips.
    • 14.

Broadcast

  • Fri 5 Aug 2022 06:30
    BBC Radio 3