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Saturday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Breakfast.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 30 Apr 2011 07:00

Music Played

  • Benjamin Britten

    Boisterous Bour茅e from Simple Symphony

    Performer: Bournemouth Sinfonietta Performer: Ronald Thomas (conductor)

    • CHANDOS 6592.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Sonata No. 3 in F major Hob XVI:9

    Performer: Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano)

    • BIS CD 1731/33.
  • Henry Purcell

    If music be the food of love

    Performer: James Bowman (countertenor) Performer: The King鈥檚 Consort Performer: Robert King (director)

    • HYPERION CDA 66288.
  • Gustav Holst

    Mercury from The Planets

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Simon Rattle (conductor)

    • EMI EMINENCE CD EMX 9513.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento from Cosi fan tutte

    Performer: Gundula Janowitz, soprano (Fiordiligi) Performer: Brigitte Fassbaender, mezzo-soprano (Dorabella) Performer: Rolando Panerei, baritone (Don Alfonso)

    • DG 469 612-2.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Sonata No.1 in F major from Sonatas Op.1

    Performer: Manfredo Kraemer (violin) Performer: Juan Manuel Quintana (viola de gamba) Performer: Dane Roberts (violone) Performer: Dirk B枚rner (harpsichord)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901746.
  • Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse

    Sonatine bureaucratique

    Performer: Angela Brownridge (piano)

    • Classics for Pleasure 5 75147.
  • George Gershwin

    An American Paris

    Performer: The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra Performer: Felix Slatkin (conductor)

    • EMI CDM 7 63736 2.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Di quella pira from Il Trovatore

    Performer: Marcello Alvarez, tenor (Manrico) Performer: Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of Milan Performer: Daniel Oren (conductor)

    • DECCA 478 1442.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu No. 4 in A flat major from 4 Impromptus D.899

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim (piano)

    • DG 415 849-2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso Op. 3 No. 1

    Performer: Pamela Thorby & Rebecca Austen-Brown (flutes) Performer: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Performer: Iona Brown (director)

    • HANSSLER CLASSIC CD 98.918.
  • Franz Leh谩r

    Merry Widow: Opening Act II 鈥 Introduction, Dance and Vilia

    Performer: Catherine Wilson, soprano (Hanna Glawari) Performer: Scottish Opera Chorus Performer: Scottish Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Alexander Gibson (conductor)

    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE CDCFPSD 4742.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Allegretto from Sinfonietta (Crown Court Theme!)

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Charles Mackerras, conductor

    • DECCA 410 138-2.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Psalm: Laudate Pueri Domine from Vespers of the Blessed Virgin 1610

    Performer: Soloists, Choir and Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment Performer: Robert Howarth (director)

    • SIGNUM CLASSICS SIGCD 237.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition: The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba Yaga) and The Great Gate of Kiev

    Orchestrator: Henry Wood Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Nicholas Braithewaite (conductor)

    • LYRITA SRCD.216.

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  • Sat 30 Apr 2011 07:00

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