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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 24 Mar 2013 07:00

Music Played

  • Hugo Alfvén

    Fest-Ouverture

    Performer: Swedish Wind Ensemble Performer: Christian Lindberg, conductor

    • BIS-CD 1268.
  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune

    Performer: 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic

    • EMI Classics 509996 08501 2 6.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The Seasons: Spring: Chorus: Come Gentle Spring

    Performer: RIAS Kammerchor Performer: Chamber Orchestra of Europe Performer: Sir Roger Norrington

    • Profil Hanssler PH07076.
  • Benjamin Britten - 4 Sea Interludes

    Performer: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic Performer: Edward Gardner

  • Enrique Granados

    Goyescas Book 1: El Fandango de candil

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson, piano

    • Hyperion CDA67846.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Quartet for strings in F major, first movement; Allegro moderato - tres doux

    Performer: Quatuor Ebene

    • Virgin Classics 50999 51904524.
  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Al mio gioir il ciel si fara sereno

    Performer: Il Complesso Barocco Performer: Alan Curtis, direction

    • Pan Classics PC10229.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto RV 273 E minor first movement: Allegro non troppo

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola, violin Performer: Venice Baroque Orchestra Performer: Andrea Marcon, director

    • Sony Classical SK89362.
  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus D.899 (no.3 in G flat major)

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.

    Performer: Katharina Wolpe, piano

    • Symposium 1213.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Alto Rhapsody

    Performer: Dame Janet Baker Performer: Male voices of the John Alldis Choir Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Sir Adrian Boult

    • EMI Classics 47854.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    BWV 866 – Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude and Fugue No. 21 in B-flat major

    Performer: Masaaki Suzuki, harpsichord

    • BIS CD813/814.
  • Johan Halvorsen

    Entry March of the Boyars

    Performer: Bergen Philharmonic Performer: Neeme Jarvi

    • Chandos CHAN 10584.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Storiella d'amore

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth, trumpet Performer: Kathryn Stott, piano

    • EMI Classics 509994 16471 27.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Fantasy no 1 a 3

    Performer: Phantasm

    • Avie AV0032.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no. 5 (D.485) in B flat major, fourth movement; Allegro vivace

    Performer: The Chamber Orchestra of Europe Performer: Claudio Abbado

    • Deutsche Grammophon 423 654 2.

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