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Christmas Morning Live with Petroc Trelawny

Bring extra sparkle to your festive celebrations by joining Petroc Trelawny, live from Broadcasting House, with his uplifting selection of seasonal music and star guests.

Whether you’re celebrating with family or spending time on your own, Petroc Trelawny provides the perfect accompaniment to your Christmas morning.

A host of names will be popping in to perform live from 80A - the historic studio at the top of Broadcasting House. Singer Claire Martin has been described as “one of the crown jewels of the jazz world”; she’ll be joined by award-winning Glasgow-born guitarist Jim Mullen. Pianist Martin James Bartlett, winner of BBC Young Musician in 2014, will play a magical Christmas medley, as well as music by Bach and Tchaikovsky. And rising stars of folk The Wilderness Yet will perform a selection of much-loved carols, their colourful combinations of voices and instruments adding a fresh twist to ancient Yuletide songs.

Petroc will play some personal favourites, as well as listener requests and festive music from around the UK; and as the BBC’s Centenary celebrations continue, he’ll be dipping into the archive to uncover gems of Christmas past.

And in the best traditions of Christmas Day, there will be delicious treats and surprises along the way.

4 hours

Last on

Christmas Day 2022 09:00
BBC Radio 3

Music Played

  • Thoinot Arbeau

    Ding Dong Merrily on High

    Music Arranger: Roger Harvey. Ensemble: London Brass.
    • London Brass.

  • Trad.

    Silent Night

    Composer: Graham Fitkin. Performer: Ruth Wall.
    • GFR.

  • Trad.

    O Come all ye Faithful

    Performer: Musical Box of Magdalen College, Oxford.
    • The Gift of Music.

  • Trad.

    Vom Himmel hoch, o Engel kommt

    Singer: Dorothee Mields. Ensemble: Lautten Compagney. Director: Wolfgang Katschner.
    • Deutsche HM.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Winter (The Four Seasons)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • VIVALDI: LE QUATTRO STAGIONI.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Trad.

    Drive the Cold Winter Away

    Ensemble: The Wilderness Yet.
    • BBC RECORDING.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    December (The Year)

    Performer: Lauma Skride.
    • SONY BMG.

  • Trad.

    Ar Gyfer Heddiw'r Bore

    Performer: Bryn Terfel.
    • GWYNFRYN CYMUNEDOL.

  • Trad.

    Alawon Môn - Anglesey Tune

    Music Arranger: Llio Rhydderch. Performer: Llio Rhydderch.
    • Melangell.
    • Fflach.
    • 5.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in E flat major, D.929 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • Virgin Classics.

  • Trad.

    The Holly and the Ivy

    Ensemble: The Wilderness Yet.
    • BBC RECORDING.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Surrey with the fringe on top (Oklahoma)

    Singer: Marlene Dietrich.
    • The Very Best Of Marlene Dietrich.
    • Disconforme.
    • 7.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Surrey With The Fringe On Top

    Music Arranger: Miles Davis. Performer: Miles Davis Quintet.
    • Steamin' With The Miles Davis Quintet.
    • Prestige.
    • 1.

  • Trad.

    Deck the Halls

    Ensemble: The Wilderness Yet.
    • BBC RECORDING.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Conversations of Beauty and the Beast (Mother Goose)

    Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth. Orchestra: Les Siècles.
    • Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye, Le tombeau de Couperin & Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 106.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F

    Orchestra: European Brandenburg Ensemble. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Avie.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

    Performer: Martin James Bartlett.
    • BBC RECORDING.

  • Trad.

    Sussex Carol

    Music Arranger: Sir David Willcocks. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Performer: Simon Preston. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.
    • DECCA.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Peace on Earth

    Performer: Huw Watkins. Lyricist: Errollyn Wallen. Singer: Ruby Hughes.
    • Echo.
    • BIS.
    • 119.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Carousel Waltz (Carousel)

    Music Arranger: Edward Benson Powell. Music Arranger: Gus Levene. Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II. Orchestra: John Wilson Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • The Best of The John Wilson Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring

    Music Arranger: Myra Hess. Performer: Martin James Bartlett.
    • BBC RECORDING.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons: December

    Performer: Ryan Corbett.

  • Trad.

    Taladh Chriosta

    Music Arranger: John Hearne. Choir: Cadenza. Director: Jenny Sumerling.
    • Bright Star.
    • Cadenza.
    • 21.

  • Trad.

    Da Day Dawn

    Performer: Catriona McKay & Chris Stout.
    • GREENTRAX.

  • George Frideric Handel

    March (Judas Maccabeus)

    Music Arranger: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Performer: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Orchestra: Armonico Consort.
    • Let The Bright Seraphim Works by J.S. Bach, Telemann, A.Scarlatti and Handel.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 18.

  • Harold Edwin Darke

    In the Bleak Midwinter

    Performer: Choir of Winchester Cathedral. Performer: Simon Bell. Performer: Andrew Lumsden.
    • REGENT.

  • Gustav Holst

    In the Bleak Midwinter

    Music Arranger: Graham Fitkin. Performer: Ruth Wall.
    • GFR.

  • William Shakespeare

    When Icicles Hang by the wall (Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act 5 scene 2), read by Robert Donat

  • Cosmo Sheldrake

    Owl Song

    Performer: Cosmo Sheldrake.
    • TARDIGRADE RECORDS.

  • Björk

    Frosti

    Performer: Björk.
    • ELEKTRA.

  • Becky McGlade

    In the Bleak Midwinter

    Choir: Truro Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
    • REGENT.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    Go from my window

    Performer: Susanna Pell. Performer: Asako Morikawa. Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Gibbons: Consorts for Viols.
    • Avie.
    • 21.

  • Trad.

    Liberace's Christmas Medley

    Music Arranger: Liberace. Performer: Martin James Bartlett.
    • BBC RECORDING.

  • Kenneth Leighton

    A Christmas Caroll

    Performer: Robert Quinney. Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: James O’Donnell.
    • A Christmas Caroll.
    • HYPERION.

  • William Mathias

    Sir Christemas

    Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: James O’Donnell.
    • A Christmas Caroll.
    • HYPERION.

  • Trad.

    I saw three ships

    Music Arranger: James O’Donnell. Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: James O’Donnell.
    • A Christmas Caroll.
    • HYPERION.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Roses from the South Op.388

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Linos Ensemble. Performer: Ryoko Morooka.
    • Capriccio.

  • Frank Loesser

    What are you doing New Year’s Eve?

    Performer: Claire Martin. Performer: Jim Mullen.
    • BBC RECORDING.

  • Johnny Mandel

    Close Enough for Love

    Composer: Paul Williams. Performer: Claire Martin. Performer: Jim Mullen.
    • BBC RECORDING.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Fantaisie-impromptu in C sharp minor, Op.66

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Chopin: Impromptus, Waltzes & Mazurkas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.

  • Valentin Silvestrov

    Songs for Vespers: Silent Night

    Choir: Kyiv Chamber Choir. Conductor: Mykola Hobdych.
    • VALENTIN SILVESTROV: SACRED SONGS.
    • ECM.

  • Alessandro Marcello

    Oboe Concerto in D minor

    Performer: Paolo Grazzi. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • TELDEC.

  • Trad.

    Arise and Hail

    Choir: Pendeen Tin Miners Choir.
    • BBC RECORDING.

  • Richard Glenhall

    Humphrey Davy

    Performer: Dave Penhale. Singer: Brenda Wootton.
    • PLANT LIFE BURLINGTON.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in C minor, Op.23 No.7

    Performer: Dame Moura Lympany.
    • ERATO.

  • Leslie Bricusse

    Pure Imagination

    Composer: Anthony Newley. Performer: Claire Martin. Performer: Jim Mullen.
    • BBC RECORDING.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Let's go and live in the country

    Performer: Richard Rodney Bennett.
    • BBC RECORDING.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    Murder on the Orient Express (Waltz)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.
    • 100 Greatest Film Themes, Take 2.
    • Silva Screen.
    • 11.

  • Hugh Martin

    Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas

    Composer: Ralph Blane. Performer: Claire Martin. Performer: Jim Mullen.
    • BBC RECORDING.

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Grande tarantelle, Op. 67

    Performer: Michael Gurt. Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Rosenberg.
    • NAXOS.

  • Maurice Walters

    The Winter's Brightening

    Performer: Richard Pearce. Music Arranger: Alexander L’Estrange. Music Arranger: Joanna Forbes. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Nicholas Chalmers.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in B flat, Op. 130, 'Cavatina'

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • Zig Zag.

  • Elaine Agnew

    Curoo Curoo

    Performer: Elaine Agnew. Conductor: Desmond Earley.
    • Be All Merry.
    • Signum Records.
    • 4.

  • Trad.

    My Lagan Love

    Performer: Tommy Makem.
    • SHANACHIE.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Italiana (Ancient Airs and Dances Suite no.3)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Pas de deux)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.

Broadcast

  • Christmas Day 2022 09:00
    BBC Radio 3