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Three Hours of Classical Sparkle

Join Petroc Trelawny for three hours of classical masterpieces, the perfect start to your Sunday.

Petroc Trelawny brings you three hours of classical music to reflect, restore, and refresh.

On today's show, Petroc has treats aplenty for your Sunday morning, including orchestral gems, magical piano music and a choral reflection to mark Palm Sunday by the Italian composer Felice Anerio.

The complete set of Brahms symphonies by Yannick Nezet-Seguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe was released in 2024 to rave reviews; we'll hear the meaty first movement of Symphony No.2.

Also, Petroc's Sunday Sequence has a distinctly regal feel to it.

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Music Played

  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Colas Breugnon, Op 24 (Overture)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D major, BWV.1050 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Michele Barchi. Performer: Enrico Onofri. Performer: Giovanni Antonini. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Grace Williams

    Calm sea in summer (Sea Sketches: No 5)

    Conductor: Malin Broman. Orchestra: Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Breaking Waves.
    • BIS.
    • 105.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Sonata in G major for Flute and Violin, TWV 40:111

    Performer: Ashley Solomon. Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Florilegium.
    • Ino Cantata and Double Concertos.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 18-21.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.27 in B flat K.595 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Piotr Anderszewski.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Granville Bantock

    Two Heroic Ballads - II. Kishmul's Galley

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Hyperion.

  • Felice Anerio

    Christus factus est pro nobis

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • The Sacred Flame.
    • Collegium.
    • 7.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Mélancolie, FP 105

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's French Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • Richard Wagner

    Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Prelude)

    Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Franz Schubert

    Sechs Moments Musicaux, Op. 94, D. 780: I. Moderato

    Performer: Llŷr Williams.
    • A Schubert Journey.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 201.

  • Traditional Scottish

    Over the sea to Skye

    Music Arranger: Michael Tippett. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Choral Images.
    • SIGNUM.
    • 011.

  • Henry Wood

    Fantasia on British Sea Songs (complete)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Choir: Leeds Festival Chorus. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Rule Britannia: Last Night of the Proms.
    • Naxos.

  • Nadia Boulanger

    La Mer

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Merci.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.

  • Lennox Berkeley

    Serenade for strings Op.12

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    3 Nocturnes Op.9 (no.2 in E flat major)

    Performer: Nelson Goerner.
    • Alpha Classics.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 73 (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • George Frideric Handel

    The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon, HWV 67, Act 3)

    Conductor: Laurence Equilbey. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Leos Janáček

    Piano Sonata 1 X 1905, 'From the Street'

    Performer: Samson Tsoy.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La forza del destino (Overture)

    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: West–Eastern Divan Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.

  • James MacMillan

    Lux aeterna (Strathclyde Motets)

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.

  • Béla Bartók

    Stick Dance (Romanian Folk Dances)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Andrew Armstrong. Music Arranger: Zoltán Székely.
    • CHANDOS CHAN.

  • Jennifer Higdon

    Summer Shimmers Across the Glass of Green Ponds (Scenes from the Poets Dreams: 2nd mvt)

    Performer: Gary Graffman. Ensemble: Lark Quartet.
    • An Exaltation of Larks.
    • BRIDGE.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Sunday09:00
    BBC Radio 3