Petroc Trelawny
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Presenter BBC Radio 3, author of Trelawny’s Cornwall.
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Trelawny's Cornwall ... in Cornwall. Join me Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery at Truro on Wednesday. A free talk for members at 3pm, and a celebration of Cornwall through objects in the museum's collection at 7pm, with the brilliant @daphneskinnard hosting. Ticket link below
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Some exciting news to share - Petroc Trelawny’s Classical Music Puzzle Book will be published in October. But you can pre-order a copy now from @Waterstones and enjoy a 25% discount. Search ‘Petroc Trelawny’ at
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Delius’s music on In Tune from Bradford today. This is his birthplace - 6 Claremont, and the nearby German Lutheran Church. Join us live from Bradford Live - 5-7pm on BBC Radio 3.
3 months ago
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a brilliant reinvention of a once cherished mega-cinema. The auditorium of Bradford Live is pretty impressive. In Tune comes live from here today between 5-7pm on BBC Radio 3.
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Yorkshire Calling ! In Tune live from Bradford this afternoon 1700-1900.
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Free tomorrow afternoon (Sunday) ? Join us at St Mark’s Regent’s Park for music by Elgar, Tomkins, Farnaby, Holst, Tippett, Lloyd and more, interspersed with readings from Trelawny’s Cornwall. 3pm. Admission Free. Maybe see you there ….
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Rebecca Evans is a fabulous singer, a real musical star and a lovely person. And she's coming to TRURO ! Hear her with Welsh National Opera & Tomáš Hanus at Hall for Cornwall on July 12th. With Beethoven's Eroica Symphony in the mix as well ! Will be a great concert.
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Are you in London next Sunday ? I’ll be reading from
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in a programme of words/music at St Mark’s Regent’s Park NW1 at 15h00 on 29/6. Free - just turn up. And books on sale too. Penzance, Buxton, Chiswick, Appledore and other appearances ahead.
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3 months ago
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Great concert tonight on BBC4 - Vienna Philharmonic at Palais Garnier with guest appearances from guests including Bryn Terrell, Yuja Wang and Rolando Villazon. I’ll be commentating. 7.30 - or later at BBC iPlayer.
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Lovely afternoon for a visit to Newquay to help open
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Trelawny's Cornwall ... in Cornwall. Join me Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery at Truro on Wednesday. A free talk for members at 3pm, and a celebration of Cornwall through objects in the museum's collection at 7pm, with the brilliant @daphneskinnard hosting. Ticket link below
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4 months ago
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spread the word - Trelawny’s Cornwall is out in paperback tomorrow. Order now from your local bookshop.
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Fancy a sultry evening of smooth summer classics ? I'll be at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester tomorrow evening to host The Hallé Orchestra in concert - Agata Zając will conduct and leader Roberto Ruisi will be soloist. It's going to be a very special night. Saturday 24th May 7.30pm
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Trelawny's Cornwall is out in paperback on May 29th. Pre-order now from your local bookshop. Meanwhile I'll be appearing at the du Maurier Fowey Festival this Saturday (May 17th) at 2pm and at the Bude Literary Festival this Sunday (May 18th) at 1pm. Maybe see you there ?
4 months ago
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another week of great guests BBC Radio 3 In Tune including Jivin' Miss Daisy, Her Ensemble, actor Anton Lesser & conductor David Le Page and violinist Randall Goosby & pianist Zhu Wang. With live music daily ... it's essential listening with Katie Derham & myself.
5 months ago
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Great to have Jacqui Dankworth with me on In Tune on BBC Radio 3 this evening. With pianist (and arranger) Charlie Wood, Oli Hayhurst on bass and Sebastian De Krom (drums). Her new album Windmills is out now. She sings Windmills of Your Mind next.
5 months ago
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A Good Friday cross above central London.
5 months ago
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we welcome Frances Madden and her band to In Tune this afternoon - Rob Updegraff (guitar), Phil Donnelly (bass), Mez Clough (drums) and Amy Sears (backing vocals). Listen live BBC Radio 3 or later BBC Sounds
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Laura and Sarah Ayoub play live on In Tune this afternoon and discuss Scottish/Egyptian musical connections. Already this week we have welcomed to the studio cellist Sterling Elliott & pianist Joseph Havlat and tenor James Way & pianist Natalie Burch. Join us @BBCRadio3
5 months ago
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great to be back here again as The Chaos Quartet rehearse ahead of today’s Wigmore Hall lunchtime concert. Early Schubert & Britten and a 1960’s masterwork by Ligeti. Live at 13h00 BBC Radio 3
5 months ago
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Inside the In Tune studio - Gemma Rosefield and Tim Horton soundcheck. They will play Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Casals just before 6.30 live on BBC Radio 3
6 months ago
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Martin Feinstein and his eponymous ensemble are rehearsing in the In Tune studio. They play Bach and Telemann on air today from five @BBCRadio3 Great guests already this week incl. Sir Mark Elder, Hayoung Choi & Alim Beisembayev and Freddie Ballentine & Kunal Lahiry.
6 months ago
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The new office … In Tune on air at 5pm at BBC Radio 3 with composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, conductor@Sir Mark Elder and pianist TianXu An
6 months ago
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Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today Anna Tilbrook asks us to sing along as we cross a rainbow, Bach writes a cantata for a new regime, Hannah Peel surveys a dusty nebula, Britten salutes Young Apollo, Brenda Wootton at Lamorna, Ned Rorem's breakfast & a hydrophone.
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Last early morning commute …
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Good Morning. BBC Radio 3 Breakfast is live - Wagner helps Thomas Hampson sing to an evening star, Steven Osborne takes on the challenge of Ravel’s Waltz, to the open water with Britten and gentler ripples as Mengyiyi Chen plays a Barcarolle by Mel Bonis.
6 months ago
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Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3. Today Richard Rodney Bennett eyes up a four piece suite, Khatia Buniatishvili plays Liszt, Trinity College Cambridge in a Motet by Cecelia McDowall and on the anniversary of Hans Christian Anderson’s birth, a Danish Little Match Girl.
6 months ago
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Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3. Today Herbert Howells at the end of his life writing a hymn to beauty, Boulez conducts Berlioz in sixties London, Nicholas Daniel and friends play a trio by Madeleine Dring and Rebecca Miller conducts a Symphony by CPE Bach.
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Good morning. BBC Radio 3 Breakfast is live. Today Mariss Jansons conducts Wagner’s Tannhauser overture, The Sixteen sing Tallis’s If Ye Love Me, Swedish sop. Johanna Wallroth takes us into the woods w/Stenhammer and Jess Gilham reinvents music for violin & piano by Lera Auerbach
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Good morning - Breakfast is live @BBCRadio3 Today cherry blossom represented in music by Joe Hisaishi, the mini piano concerto Shostakovich wrote for a film about civil war in Russia, Niamh O’ Sullivan hears birdsong at eventide and Fritz Wunderlich sings Mozart.
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Good Morning. BBC Radio 3 Breakfast is on air. Today Agnes Zimmerman, German born London piano star, works by Arthur Bliss, who died fifty years ago, Tasmin Little soars like a lark and R. Hahn’s music played by the Tchalik’s – a quartet of siblings (with another brother on piano).
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Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3. Pierre Boulez (born a century ago today) meets light music master Ernest Tomlinson at a party, Poulenc's Figure Humaine, Mitsuko Uchida plays Mozart and Jakub Józef Orliński sings Purcell with the King's Singers. Start the day well.
6 months ago
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maybe see you in OXFORD on Saturday ?? I’ll be talking all things Cornwall at the Oxford Literary Festival at 4pm. Be great to see you there.
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Petroc Trelawny talks to Suzi Feay - Trelawny’s Cornwall: A Journey through Western Lands
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Pictures pertinent to today’s BBC Radio 3 Breakfast - Lancelot the recumbent dog, Jan Davidsz de Heem’s ‘A Banquet’ on display at Fitzwilliam Museum, and Dame Darcey and myself at the ballet.
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Good morning Friday Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today Paul Tortelier plays Bach, Blossom Dearie and Ned Rorem on spring, Margaret Price sings Schubert and our poem is The Old Love by Irish poet Katharine Tynan. Best start to Friday ... guaranteed.
6 months ago
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the view from the Royal Opera House … looking forward to introducing
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with Dame Darcey Bussell to over a thousand cinemas this evening at 1915 GMT. See you on the silver screen.
6 months ago
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Today BBC Radio 3 the Four Seasons in one day. On Breakfast we mark the coming of spring. Théotime Langlois de Swarte play’s Vivaldi’s concerto, Spring music from Sibelius, Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith, Glazunov & Copland, and John Craven & Deborah Henson-Conant celebrate Nightingales
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Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today Elena Urioste plays the violin sonata by Mel Bonis, moonlit dancing to the song of crickets in a suite by Max Reger, Mozart on the euphonium with Black Dyke Band and David Childs and Dvorak from Mariam Batsashvili. Do tune in.
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Three composers painted by Thos. Gainsborough BBC Radio 3 Breakfast this morning - C F Abel & J C Bach (both in collection of NPG London) and Thos. Linley Jr (Dulwich Picture Gallery)
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Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski sings from Vivaldi’s Giustino, Walton takes us to Portsmouth Point, Elizabeth Wallfisch with music by Thomas Linley Jr - who was painted by Gainsborough, and Trio Wanderer's Schubert.
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Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today Ella Fitzgerald sings Gershwin, trombonist Peter Moore teams up with Tredegar Town Band, Amy Summers offers a contemporary setting of the Nunc dimittis and Mary Bevan sings Schubert with the CBSO. And it’s St Patrick’s Day ☘️
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Good Morning - Friday Breakfast is on air BBC Radio 3. Today James O'Donnell is soloist in Saint-Saën’s Organ Symphony, Ralph Fiennes celebrates Wordsworth's love of daffodils, Elim Chan conducts Chopin and a Beethoven Piano Sonata played by Andras Schiff. All for you ...
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This is the Jennifer Vyvyan site I mentioned a moment ago on Radio3 – a treasure trove.
www.jennifervyvyan.org
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The Jennifer Vyvyan Foundation
Jennifer Vyvyan, 1925-1974: a soprano of distinctive promise in the 1950s who became one of the best-loved English singers of her time.
https://www.jennifervyvyan.org/
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Good Morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3Today William Herschel visits Richmond and writes a symphony, Argerich & Freire play Rachmaninov, soprano Jennifer Vyvyan sings of love & apples and Bliss & Black Dyke take us to Kenilworth. Start your day the right way with Radio 3.
7 months ago
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Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3. Today Sir Mark Elder conducts the Halle in Wagner, Beatrice Rana takes Tchaikovsky to Rome, Pierre Boulez conducts Debussy’s impression of a spring morning and Gordon MacRae celebrates the new Oklahoman day. Start the new day with R3.
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Good morning - Breakfast is live @BBCRadio3 Today Uruguayan bandoneon master Hector Ulises Passarella, Felix Klieser plays Mozart’s second horn concerto Bobby McFerrin – on his 75th birthday and Amy Beach in pastoral mood on her last visit to the MacDowell Colony.
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Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today Pierre-Laurent Aimard searches for Debussy’s sunken cathedral, the Mullova Ensemble play Schubert, Menotti finds the telephone gets in the way of romance and an American quartet from 1960s by composer Julia Smith. Hope you can join us.
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Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today the Aronowitz Ensemble perform Vaughan Williams, Gershwin serenades Ravel on his birthday, Emily Dickinson’s poem Hope is the Thing with Feathers and every vase is filled with daffodils … starting w/Rebecca Dale setting Wordsworth. Come and join us.
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Good Morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Sabine Meyer & her wind ensemble play Dvorak, Nikolai Lugansky finds Rachmaninov reinventing Paganini, Soviet composer Vladimir Peskin writes for trumpet and piano and baritone Henk Neven with songs of Don Quichotte. Come and join us.
7 months ago
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Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Dutch Mezzo Christianne Stotijn considers love by the Rhine, Renaud Capuçon’s new recording of Sibelius, a new sonata for Baroque violins & harpsichord by Sicilian Salvatore Passantino and Lisa Lehmann finds R L Stevenson looking to the stars. Hope you can join us.
7 months ago
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Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today Alisa Weilerstein’s Bach, Walton conducts his Spitfire Prelude and Fugue, Paul Lincke’s Glow Worm – music written for the dancer Pavlova ... and is Pavlova (pudding) on the menu in Malipiero’s favourite Venetian coffee house ? Do join us.
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