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Sunday - 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.
´óÏó´«Ã½ 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

Sun 17 Mar 2013 07:00

Music Played

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    IV. A reel from 4 Irish Dances (arranged Grainger)

    Performer: Piers Lane (piano)

    • HELIOS CDH55454.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Firebird Suite: Berceuse & Finale

    Performer: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Performer: Conducted by Paavo Jarvi

    • TELARC CD80587.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Come in ciel benigna stella from Apollo e Dafne, HWV 122

    Performer: Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) Performer: La Risonanza Performer: Directed by Fabio Bonizzoni

    • GLOSSA GCD921527.
  • Joseph Haydn

    II. Andante from Symphony 94 – Surprise

    Performer: Philharmonia Hungarica Performer: Conducted by Antal Dorati

    • LONDON 4485312.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no. 2 in F minor: III Allegro Vivace

    Performer: Martha Argerich Performer: Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal Performer: Conducted by Charles Dutoit

    • EMI 5456822.
  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de Matin (arranged Brodsky Quartet)

    Performer: Brodsky Quartet

    • CHANDOS CHAN10708.
  • Anon.

    Marry Me Now (arranged Herbert Hughes); The Tinker's Daughter (arranged Moeran); The Lost

    Performer: Ailish Tynan (soprano) Performer: Iain Burnside (piano)

    • SIGNUM SIGCD239.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Sonata No 2 for Violin and Keyboard

    Performer: Les Dominos

    • RICERCAR RIC310.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    1. Allegro from Concerto in G minor RV.531 for 2 Cellos and orchestra

    Performer: Yo-Yo Ma and Jonathan Marsden (Baroque Cellos) Performer: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Performer: Conducted by Ton Koopman

    • SONY CLASSICAL S2K92857.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Scottish Dances

    Performer: The Philharmonia Performer: Conducted by Bryden Thomas

    • CHANDOS CHAN8867.
  • Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev

    St Matthew Passion: Chorus – Come let us sing a holy lament to Christ

    Performer: Choir of the State Tretyakov Gallery Performer: Tchaikovsky Great Symphony Orchestra Performer: Conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev

    • RELIEF CR991094.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue No. 14 in F sharp minor

    Performer: Davitt Moroney

    • Harmonia Mundi HMC 90128588.
  • Charles Gounod

    St Cecilia Mass: Benedictus

    Performer: Barbara Hendricks Performer: Laurence Dale Performer: Jean-Philippe Lafont Performer: Choeur de Radio-France Performer: Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique Performer: Georges Prêtre

    • HMV HMV5740552.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Joyeuse March

    Performer: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic Performer: Conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier

    • CHANDOS CHAN9765.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Tosca: Vissi d'arte

    Performer: Angela Gheorghiu Performer: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

    • EMI 5577062.
  • Franz Schubert

    IV. Presto Vivace from Symphony No. 3 in D

    Performer: English Sinfonia Performer: Sir Charles Groves

    • IMP PCD967.
  • John Field

    Nocturne No. 7

    Performer: Benjamin Frith (piano)

    • NAXOS 8550761.

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  • Sun 17 Mar 2013 07:00

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