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Saturday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast Show.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Georges Bizet

    Carillon from L'Arlesienne (Suite No.1)

    Performer: Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux Performer: Igor Markevitch (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 4208632.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bourees 1&2 from Suite No.4 in B flat major (transcribed Nigel North)

    Performer: Nigel North (lute)

    • LINN RECORDS CKD 300.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Overture "Le corsaire", Op.21

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 4164302.
  • Alfred Schnittke

    Andante from Sonata 1955

    Performer: Daniel Hope (violin) Performer: Sebastian Knauer (piano)

    • WARNER 2564613292.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Te ergo quaesumus (Te Deum)

    Performer: Maria Stader Performer: Sieglinde Wagner Performer: Ernst Haefliger Performer: Peter Lagger Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Eugen Jochum (conductor)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4231272.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet antique

    Performer: Steven Osborne (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA677312.
  • Gustav Holst

    Jig from St Paul's Suite

    Performer: City of London Sinfonia Performer: Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHANDOS 241-28.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Notturno from String Quartet No.2 in D major

    Performer: Takacs Quartet

    • DECCA 4522392.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Klavierstucke, op.119, no.4 in E flat major

    Performer: Radu Lupu (piano)

    • DECCA 478 2340.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Brindisi "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" (La Traviata, Act I)

    Performer: Rolando Villazon (tenor) Performer: Anna Netrebko (soprano) Performer: Chorus of the Vienna State Opera Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Choir Performer: Carlo Rizzi (conductor)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 8854.
  • Johann Strauss

    Jugendfeuer-Galopp, Op.90

    Performer: The Guadier Ensemble

    • HYPERION CDA67169.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon in D major

    Performer: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 4293902.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Finale from Symphony No.104 in D major "London"

    Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

    • TELDEC 0630-18953-2.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laudate Dominum

    Performer: The Sixteen (8 members) Performer: Harry Christophers (conductor)

    • CORO COR16101.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Scherzo from Quartet, Op.18, no.2

    Performer: Tokyo String Quartet

    • RCA 09026612842.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    First movement from Piano Concerto No.1

    Performer: Cecile Ousset (piano) Performer: The London Philharmonic Performer: Kurt Masur (conductor)

    • EMI CDC7541572.
  • Johann Strauss

    Cachucha-Galopp, Op.97

    Performer: The Gaudier Ensemble

    • HYPERION CDA67169.

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