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Three hours of classical sparkle

Petroc Trelawny sits in for Sarah Walker with a Sunday mix featuring Renaissance choral music, operatic drama, and a colourful orchestral journey to the world of Aladdin.

This week, Petroc Trelawny sits in for Sarah Walker with a playlist full of stories and surprises, travelling from Renaissance Spain and operatic Italy to the magical world of Aladdin.

There’s the exuberance of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro Overture, the lyrical slow movement from Bruch’s First Violin Concerto, and chamber music from Dvořák and Schubert.

Petroc also heads to 16th-century Spain for this week’s Choral Reflection, with music from Cristóbal de Morales’s beautiful Mass for the Armed Man, sung by De Profundis.

The programme also includes new releases, featuring music by Karl Weigl and the early recording pioneers Justin Ring and Frederick Hager. And for the morning’s chance to put down the to-do list and settle in for something a little longer, Petroc opens the pages of Nielsen’s colourful Aladdin Suite, a musical adventure inspired by the tales of One Thousand and One Nights.

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3.

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Music Played

  • Johan Joachim Agrell

    Violin Concerto in G major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir. Ensemble: Barokkbandio Brak.
    • Two Sides.
    • Sono Luminus.
    • 1.

  • Jean Sibelius

    13 Pieces for Piano Op. 76 No. 2 - Etude in A minor

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.

  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 26 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Conductor: Kurt Masur. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.
    • Warner Classics International.

  • Franz Liszt

    Paraphrase de concert sur Rigoletto, S 434 (after Verdi)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Rudy Wiedoeft

    Dans l'orient (arr for alto saxophone & harp)

    Composer: Domenico Savino. Performer: Chad Smith. Music Arranger: Lynette Wardle. Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London.
    • Saxophobia: Celebrating the Sax Craze of the 1920s.
    • Chandos.
    • 104.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music, Suite No 2, HWV 349 (1st & 2nd mvts)

    Conductor: Dmitry Sinkovsky. Orchestra: B’Rock Orchestra.
    • Water & Fire.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 1-2.

  • Arthur Bliss

    Clarinet Quintet, F 20 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Ensemble: Wigmore Soloists.
    • BIS.

  • Cristóbal de Morales

    Missa L'homme armé a5 (No 6, Agnus Dei)

    Choir: De Profundis. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • CORO.

  • Hania Rani

    Preludium c-moll

    Performer: Dobrawa Czocher. Performer: Hania Rani.
    • Biała flaga.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 1 in D major, 'Titan' (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Ecco di dolci raggi il sol armato

    Ensemble: La Venexiana.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Tosca (Act III: 'E lucevan le stelle')

    Singer: Freddie De Tommaso. Conductor: Paolo Arrivabeni. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Il Tenore.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
    • 6.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    6 Moments musicaux, Op 16 (No 4 in E minor)

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • Hyperion.

  • Adolphe Adam

    Giselle (Act I: 'Pas de seul - Variation de Giselle')

    Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Jacques Ibert

    Escales

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

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Piano Quintet No 2 in A major, Op 81, B 155 (3rd mvt, Scherzo)

    Performer: Menahem Pressler. Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Susan Spain-Dunk

    Verses from Psalm 43

    Performer: Libby Burgess. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Grace Rossiter.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in C sharp major BWV 848 (The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1)

    Performer: Ryan Corbett.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Aladdin, Op 34 (concert suite)

    Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    3 Valses, Op 64 (No 2 in C sharp minor)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 95 in C minor, Hob I:95 (1st mvt)

    Conductor: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana.
    • Hyperion.

  • Frederic Cliffe

    Violin Concerto in D minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Philippe Graffin. Conductor: David Lloyd‐Jones. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
    • Hyperion.

  • Arnold Bax

    A Hill Tune, GP 232

    Performer: Eric Parkin.
    • Chandos.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Les chemins de l'amour, FP 106

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Lyricist: Jean Anouilh. Singer: Felicity Lott.
    • Hyperion.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 38: VI. Duetto

    Ensemble: Onyx Brass.
    • On an Overgrown Path.
    • Meridian Records.
    • 25.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Le nozze di Figaro, K 492 (Overture)

    Conductor: Georg Solti. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Famous Overtures.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
    • 6.

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