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Boost your Boxing Day morning with classical

Petroc Trelawny presents a Boxing Day edition of Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Boxing Day 2023 06:30

Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    La fille aux cheveux de lin (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.1: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    O sacrum convivium

    Choir: Danish National Vocal Ensemble. Choir: Danish National Concert Choir. Conductor: Marcus Creed.
    • OUR Recordings.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in A major, Op 20 No 6 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Chandos.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 / Part Two - For The Second Day Of Christmas

    Singer: Olaf Bär. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • ARCHIV PRODUKTION.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Romance (The Gadfly, Op.97)

    Music Arranger: Lev Atovmian. Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Ö÷²¥´óÐã Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich.
    • Warner.
  • Johann Georg Pisendel

    Allegro [concerto movement] in A minor

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • The Godfather: Masters of the German & Italian Baroque.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 3.
  • Amy Beach

    Piano Quintet in F sharp minor, Op 67 - 2nd movement, Adagio espressivo

    Performer: Martin Roscoe. Ensemble: Endellion Quartet.
    • ASV.
  • Donald Swann

    Christmas

    Lyricist: John Betjeman. Performer: Donald Swann.
    • Sing Around the Year.
    • Galliard UK.
    • 7.
  • Pietro Mascagni

    Cavalleria rusticana (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • Trad.

    The Snow Waltz

    Music Arranger: Goff Richards. Ensemble: Thoresby RJB Band. Conductor: Stan Lippeatt.
    • Brass Band Christmas.
    • Classic Fox Records.
    • 15.
  • Traditional Scottish

    Rorate Coeli Desuper

    Lyricist: William Dunbar. Singer: Custer LaRue. Ensemble: The Baltimore Consort.
    • Bright Day Star (Music For The Yuletide Season).
    • Dorian Recordings.
    • 14.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures from an exhibition: Cum mortuis in lingua mortua; The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaga); The Great Gate of Kyiv

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • LSO LIVE.
    • LSO0810.
    • 17.
  • Kevin Conneff

    The Wren in the Furze

    Ensemble: The Chieftains.
    • The Bells Of Dublin.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 17.
  • Édouard Lalo

    Symphonie espagnole Op.21 (5th mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • ERATO.
  • Donald Swann

    Casos Sonnet 1

    Performer: Donald Swann.
    • Donald Swann: The Isles of Greece.
    • Divine Art.
    • 21.
  • Traditional Greek

    Pes Mou ti (Just Tell Me)

    Music Arranger: Donald Swann. Orchestrator: John Jansson. Singer: Jeffrey Creswell. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: John Jansson.
    • Donald Swann: The Isles of Greece.
    • Divine Art.
    • 4.
  • Dimitris Fampas

    Waltz I

    Performer: Eva Fampas.
    • Greek Guitar Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Céphale et Procris - Overture

    Orchestra: A Nocte Temporis. Conductor: Reinoud Van Mechelen.
    • Céphale et Procris.
    • Chateau de Versailles Spectacles.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Key

    As shepherds watched their fleecy care

    Choir: Psalmody. Ensemble: Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.
    • Helios.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata no.5 in F major, Op.24 'Spring' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Volume 2: Alina Ibragimova/ Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • 1.
  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the shore

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Within A Dream: A celebration of the Artistry of Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Dilorom Saidaminova

    The Walls of Ancient Bukhara: I. Mosque Kalon

    Performer: Behzod Abduraimov.
    • Shadows of My Ancestors.
    • Alpha.
    • 11.
  • Babur Sharipov

    Improvisation on Uzbek Melody

  • George Gershwin

    Fascinating Rhythm

    Composer: Ira Gershwin. Ensemble: The Julian Bliss Septet.
    • I Got Rhythm.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 107.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes BWV 40 (V-VIII)

    Singer: Bogna Bartosz. Singer: Jörg Dürmüller. Choir: Amsterdam Baroque Chorus. Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • Bach: Christmas Cantatas - Weihnachtskantate.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 24-27.

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