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Sunday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Breakfast.

3 hours

Last on

Sun 1 May 2011 07:00

Music Played

  • Anon.

    O lusty May

    Performer: The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford Performer: Grayston Ives (director)

    • CANTORIS CRCD2366.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Once Upon A Time (Lyric Pieces Op.43 No 6)

    Performer: Andrei Gavrilov (piano)

    • DG 437 522-2.
  • Maurice Ravel

    2nd movement of String Quartet in F

    Performer: Borodin String Quartet

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS VJ 7 91569-2.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    5 Variants on Dives & Lazarus

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Leonard Slatkin, conductor Performer: Classic Fm Records

    • CFM CD50.
  • Henry Lawes

    Loves Sweet Repose: Admist the myrtles as I walk

    Performer: Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) Performer: Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo) Performer: William Carter (lute) Performer: Frances Kelly (double harp)

    • HYPERION CDA67589.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Rondeau from Les Biches (Ballet Suite)

    Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Performer: Louis Fremaux (conductor)

    • EMI STUDIO CDM 7 69644 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for two violins and strings in D minor BWV 1043

    Performer: Catherine Mackintosh & Elizabeth Wallfisch (violins) Performer: The King鈥檚 Consort Performer: Robert King (director)

    • HYPERION CDA66380.
  • Bernard Herrmann

    Psycho Suite for String Quartet (Extract) Transcribed and arranged by Richard Birchall

    Performer: Tippett Quartet

    • SIGNUM RECORDS SIGCD 234.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Dum transisset Sabbatum from Cantiones Sacrae (1575)

    Performer: The Choir of New College Oxford Performer: Edward Higginbottom (director)

    • CRD CRD 3429.
  • Frederick Delius

    On hearing the first cuckoo in spring

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Sir Thomas Beecham

    • EMI CLASSICS 9 09915 2.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Andante from Octet for Strings in E flat Major Op.20

    Performer: Soloists of The Chamber Orchestra of Europe Performer: Daniel Hope (violin/director)

    • DG 477 6634.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Fountains of Rome

    Performer: The Philadelphia Orchestra Performer: Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

    • RCA VICTOR VD 60486.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Overture to Les Indes Galantes

    Performer: Orchestre de la Chapelle Royale Performer: Philippe Herreweghe (director)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI 2901130.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Polovtsian dances from 'Prince Igor'

    Performer: Bavarian Radio Chorus & Orchestra Performer: Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 412 552-2.
  • Sir Hamilton Harty

    In Ireland

    Performer: Emily Beynon (flute) Performer: Catherine Beynon (harp)

    • METIER MSVCD92006.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Giunse alfin il momento鈥 Al desio di chi t'adora K 577

    Performer: Danielle de Niese, soprano Performer: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Performer: Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

    • DECCA 478 1511.
  • Aaron Copland

    Suite from Billy the Kid

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Aaron Copland (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 422 307-2.

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