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Saturday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British Music Playlist, compiled from listener requests.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 25 Jan 2014 07:00

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    25 Scottish songs Op.108 for voice and piano trio

    Performer: Christine Cairns. Performer: Scottish Early Music Consort.
    • CHANDOS.
    • CHAN-0581.
  • Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie

    Burns (Scottish rhapsody no.2) Op.24 for orchestra

    Performer: 大象传媒 Scottish S O.
    • HYPERION.
    • CDA 66764-.
  • Frederick Delius

    On hearing the first cuckoo in spring RT.6.19 for orchestra

    Performer: Kathryn Stott. Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • BIS.
    • BIS-CD-1347.
  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol suite for strings or full orchestra

    Performer: English Sinfonia.
    • EMI.
    • CDM 5 65103 2.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Trio in G minor Op.15 for piano and strings vers. revised 1857

    Performer: Vienna Piano Trio.
    • DABRINGHAUS UND GRIMM.
    • MDG 342 1512-2.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    La Cenerentola, ossia La bonta in trionfo - opera in 2 acts

    Performer: London S O..
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 419-869-2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite no. 1 in C major BWV.1066 for orchestra

    Performer: Lars Ulrik Mortensen. Performer: European Union Baroque Orchestra.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    L' Elisir d'amore - opera in 2 acts

    Performer: Luciano Pavarotti. Performer: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • DECCA.
    • 470 130-2.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Tam O'Shanter - overture Op.51

    Performer: 大象传媒 Philharmonic.
    • CHANDOS.
    • CHAN 241-28.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C minor RV.199 (Il Sospetto) for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Pinchas Zukerman. Performer: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
    • Philips.
    • 416 389 2.
  • Johannes Brahms

    8 Pieces Op.76 for piano

    Performer: Alessio Bax.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
    • SIGCD 308.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hear my prayer - hymn for soprano, chorus and organ

    Performer: Graham Elliott. Performer: Jonathan Cox. Performer: Timothy Mead. Performer: Timothy Wayne-wright. Performer: Chelmsford Cathedral Choir.
  • Claude Debussy

    Iberia [2nd movement of "Images"]

    Performer: Paris Conservatoire Orchestra.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 429-487-2.
  • Gaspar Fernandes

    Dame albricia mano Anton - negrito for 5 voices [1609-16; Oaxaca Cathedral Archive]

    Performer: The Dublin Drag Orchestra.
    • HERESY.
    • 003.

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