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Saturday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating the Baroque Spring season with the Breakfast Forty-Eight and the Musical Map of Britain.

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating the Baroque Spring season. Featuring Breakfast Forty-Eight - a daily morning dose of the 48 Preludes and Fugues of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. As part of Breakfast's Musical Map of Britain, running throughout 2013, Breakfast will be asking listeners to highlight Baroque connections to their area of the UK.
大象传媒 Radio 3's Baroque Spring is a month long season of music, drama and comedy dedicated to shedding new light on the Baroque era.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 16 Mar 2013 07:00

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    IV: La Rejouissance from Music for the Royal Fireworks

    Performer: The King鈥檚 Consort Performer: Directed by Robert King

    • CDH55375.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    iv. Allegro con brio from Piano Trio no. 3 in F minor Op. 65

    Performer: Isabelle Faust (violin) Performer: Jean Guihen Queyras (cello) Performer: Alexander Melnikov (piano)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901833.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Music from Wasps: March past of the kitchen utensils

    Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Conducted by James Judd

    • NAXOS 8572304.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Final Chorus -Wir setzen uns mit Tranen nieder from St Matthew Passion

    Performer: Dunedin Consort & Players Performer: John Butt

    • LINN CKD313.
  • Georges Bizet

    Pres des remparts from Carmen

    Performer: Teresa Berganza Performer: Placido Domingo Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Conducted by Claudio Abbado

    • DECCA 4755182.
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    1. Stabat Mater, from Stabat Mater

    Performer: Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor) Performer: Barbara Bonney (soprano) Performer: Les Talens Lyrique Performer: Conducted by Christophe Rousset

    • DECCA 4661342.
  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody No 12 in C sharp minor

    Performer: Jorge Bolet

    • DECCA 4448512.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Mazurka from Masquerade Suite

    Performer: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra Performer: Kiril Kondrashin

    • RCA 09026633022.
  • John Adams

    Tromba Lontana

    Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Performer: Conducted by Simon Rattle

    • EMI CDC5550512.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude & Fugue in F sharp major No.13

    Performer: Sviatoslav Richter

    • GD 60949.
  • Benjamin Britten - Curlew River: The Moon Has Risen

    Performer: Gidon Saks (Abbot) Performer: Philip Langridge (Madwoman) Performer: Thomas Allen (Ferryman) Performer: Simon Keenlyside (Traveller) Performer: Charles Richardson (Spirit of the Boy) Performer: London Voices (Pilgrims) Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Performer: Directed by Sir Neville Marriner

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Cappricio Espagnol

    Performer: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Performer: Conducted by Vassily Sinaisky

    • CHANDOS CHAN10424.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    I am easily assimilated (Old Lady's Tango) from Candide

    Performer: Christa Ludwig Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Conducted by Leonard Bernstein

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 429734 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in A minor K. 511

    Performer: Lise de la Salle

    • NA脧VE V5080.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Quell'ombr'esser vorrei from Second book of madrigals

    Performer: The consort of Musicke Performer: Anthony Rooley

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS VC7592822.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Romance from The Gadfly

    Performer: Janine Jansen (violin) Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Barry Wordsworth

    • DECCA 4750112.

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  • Sat 16 Mar 2013 07:00

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