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09/02/2014

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests.

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 9 Feb 2014 07:00

Music Played

  • Gregorio Allegri

    Miserere mei Deus [Psalm 51] for 9 voices

    Conductor: Sir David Willcocks. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge.
    • Allegri: Miserere etc: Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Willcocks.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Sonata 'F.A.E.' (Scherzo)

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Evelyn Chang.
    • Maxim Rysanov, Evelyn Chang, works by Brahms, Glinka, Enescu and others.
    • AVIE.
    • 1.
  • Michael Torke

    Bright Blue Music

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Michael Torke: Ecstatic Orange etc..
    • ARGO.
    • 5.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Polonaise-fantasy for piano (Op.61) in A flat major

    Performer: Nelson Goerner.
    • Chopin, Polonaise-Fantasie: Nelson Goerner.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in B minor for 4 violins and cello, RV 580

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Stefano Barneschi. Performer: Marco Bianchi. Performer: Riccardo Minasi. Performer: Marco Testori. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Vivaldi: Violin Concertos: Viktoria Mullova.
    • Onyx.
    • 4-6.
  • John Ireland

    My true love hath my heart

    Performer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • CHANDOS.
    • CHAN 10691.
    • 8.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    St John's Night on the bare mountain for orchestra

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestrator: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Conductor: Klaus Tennstedt.
    • Beethoven, Symphony no.3; Mussorgsky, Night on the Bare Mountain.
    • EMI.
    • 5.
  • Andr茅 Messager

    Solo de concours for clarinet and piano

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Piers Lane.
    • The Virtuoso Clarinet.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 2.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Performer: Ruth Wall.
    • The Uncommon Harp.
    • GFR.
    • 6.
  • Johan Svendsen

    Norwegian rhapsody no.1 Op.17

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Svendsen: Orchestral Works, Vol.1: Thorsen, BPO, Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Maria Hester Park

    Piano Sonata in F major, Op 4 No 1

    Performer: Betty Ann Miller.
    • Music by Maria Hester Park, Marie Bigot and Fanny Mendelssohn Henschel.
    • CENTAUR.
    • 1-2.
  • Henry Purcell

    O fair Cedaria, hide those eyes

    Singer: Barbara Bonney. Ensemble: King's Consort. Director: Robert King.
    • The secular solo songs of Henry Purcell.
    • HYPERION.
    • 28.

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