
Thursday - Petroc's classical picks
Join Petroc and the team for a special Christmas Eve edition of the Radio 3 Breakfast show, with listener requests.
Join Petroc and the team for a special Christmas Eve edition of the Radio 3 Breakfast show, with listener requests, a Bach cantata in our regular Bach Before 7 slot and Light in the Darkness: specially chosen pieces to greet the sunrise and to reflect on the special quality of light that’s associated with this time of year as part of Radio 3’s Light in the Darkness season, illuminating winter.
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The Radio 3 Breakfast Singalong: Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'
Duration: 03:36
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The Radio 3 Breakfast Singalong: Over The Rainbow
Duration: 03:36
Music Played
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Phil Cunningham
The Gentle Light that Wakes Me
Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Aly Bain. Performer: Phil Cunningham.- ѿýcoming: A Scottish Fantasy.
- Decca.
- 12.
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Clara Schumann
Am Strande
Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov. Singer: Benjamin Appl.Recorded 2 March 2016 at ѿý Maida Vale Studio 1
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata BWV132 'Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn'
Singer: Brigitte Geller. Singer: Michael Chance. Singer: Jan Kobow. Singer: Dietrich Henschel. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Bach Cantatas.
- SOLI DEO GLORIA.
- 12-17.
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Trad.
Silent Night
Composer: Graham Fitkin. Performer: Ruth Wall.- GFR.
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Errollyn Wallen
Peace on earth
Performer: Dónal McCann. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Singer: George Hill. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.- Errollyn Wallen: Peace on Earth.
- Kings College Cambridge.
- 1.
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Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata No 40 in E flat major, H XVI 25
Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.- Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
- Hyperion.
- 16.
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Geraldine Mucha
String Quartet No.1 - II. Dumka
Performer: Stamicovo kvarteto.- BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
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Michael Praetorius
Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern
Singer: Dorothee Mields. Singer: Paul Agnew. Ensemble: Lautten Compagney. Director: Wolfgang Katschner.- Wie Schon Leuchtet Der Morgenstern.
- DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
- 16.
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Philip Lane
Overture on French Carols
Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.- The Night Before Christmas.
- Naxos.
- 4.
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto grosso in C major HWV.318 'Alexander's Feast'
Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.- Concerto Grosso 'Alexander's Feast'.
- ARCHIV.
- 1-4.
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Arvo Pärt
Bogoróditse Dyevo
Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.- A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary Service.
- Kings College Cambridge.
- 18.
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Trad.
Away in a manger
Music Arranger: Graham Fitkin. Performer: Ruth Wall.- GFR.
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Claude Debussy
Feux d'artifice (Preludes, Book 2)
Performer: Pascal Rogé.- ONYX.
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Francis Poulenc
O magnum mysterium (4 Motets pour le temps de Noël)
Choir: Cadenza. Director: Jenny Sumerling.- Voices of Joy: Cadenza.
- Cadenza.
- 1.
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Alun Hoddinott
Love Song (Folk-Song Suite)
Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Andrew Penny.- Welsh Classical Favourites: Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Penny.
- Marco Polo.
- 7.
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Libby Larsen
Aubade
Performer: Eugenia Zukerman.- DELOS.
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Bohuslav Martinů
Serenade No. 2 for strings
Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.- MUSIQUE D'ABORD.
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Trad.
The Holly & the Ivy
Composer: Graham Fitkin. Performer: Ruth Wall.- GFR.
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Deborah Cheetham
Christmas With You
Performer: ABC Classic Choir. Choir: Adelaide Chamber Singers. Orchestra: Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Northey. Conductor: Carl Crossin. Conductor: Nathan Aspinall. -
Alexander Glazunov
From Darkness to Light, Op 53
Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Tadaaki Otaka.- BIS.
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Traditional
Jesus Christ the apple tree
Music Arranger: Elizabeth Poston. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Director: Sir David Willcocks.- Christmas at King's.
- EMI.
- 13.
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Harold Arlen
Over the Rainbow
Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Music Arranger: Anna Tilbrook.
Broadcast
- Christmas Eve 2020 06:30ѿý Radio 3