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Breakfast

With Martin Handley. Including Purcell: Suite in C. Bizet: Gypsy Song (Carmen). Bach: Canons. Brahms: Gesang, Op 17.

Music for breakfast-time listening with Martin Handley

A musical mix for breakfast-time including the Gypsy Song from Carmen and a stunning instrumental work by Bach that sounds like twentieth century minimalism. And a Free Thought at 8.30.

ROSSINI arr. SEDLAK
Overture 鈥淟鈥橧taliana in Algiera鈥
Netherlands Wind Ensemble
PHILIPS 442 654 Tr 8

Henry PURCELL
Suite in C Major
Davitt Moroney (player virginals)
VIRGIN VC5451662 Tr 17-20

Gerald FINZI
God is gone up
Westminster Abbey Choir,
Robert Quinney (organ)
James O鈥橠onnell, conductor
HYPERION CDA 67680 Tr 12

Antonin REICHA
Introduction and Rondo for horn and orchestra
Karl-Otto Hartmann (horn)
Prague Chamber Orchestra
Milan Lajcik conductor
ORFEO C 170 021 Tr 5

PROKOFIEV
Toccata, Op.11
Cyprien Katsaris (piano)
WARNER CLASSICS 49637 CD4 Tr 24

BIZET
Gypsy Song, Carmen Act I Sc.II
Tatiana Troyanos (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti, conductor
DECCA 421 300 2 Tr 4

J.H.SCHMELZER
Sonata 鈥渁d tabulam鈥 in G major
Musica Antiqua Koln
Flanders Recorder Quartet
Reinhard Goebel, violin/director
ARCHIV 453 442 track 12

NIELSEN
An imaginary journey to the Faeroe Islands
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
SONY SK 5276 Tr 3

J.S.BACH
Canons BWV.1072-1078, 1086
Gottfried von der Goltz (violin)
Karl Kaiser (flute)
Ekkehard Weber (viola da gamba)
Michael Behringer (harpsichord)
HANSSLER CD.92.133 Tr 17-24

SCHUBERT
Ballet Music Die Zauberharfe: No.9 Andantino
Vienna Philharmonic
Riccardo Muti, conductor
EMI 5 74808 CD1 Tr 4

MILHAUD
Les Songes
Stephen Coombs, Artur Pizarro (pianos)
HYPERION CDA 67014 tracks 7-9

SZYMANOWSKI orch. Fittelberg
Etude in B flat minor, Op. 4, No. 3
Polish State Symphony Orchestra (Katowice)
Karol Stryja, conductor
NAXOS 8.553686 Tr 4

FREE THOUGHT
Gwilym Simcock - Getting children into music

SIMCOCK
Voices
Gwilym Simcock (piano)
BASHO Music SRCD 224-2 Tr 6

BRAHMS
4 Ges盲nge Op.17
Delyth Wynne (harp),
Anthony Halstead, Christian Rutherford (horns)
Monteverdi Choir
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
PHILIPS 432 152 2 Tr 19-22

BERLIOZ
Rakoczy March
London Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Monteux, conductor
大象传媒 LEGENDS 大象传媒L 4112 Tr 7

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Last on

Sat 9 Aug 2008 07:00

Broadcast

  • Sat 9 Aug 2008 07:00

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