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Sunday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with the Best of British Music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Plus neglected composers and amateur music groups.

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 16 Feb 2014 07:00

Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Tarantelle styrienne

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Orchestre de l鈥橭p茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Jun M盲rkl.
    • Debussy - Complete Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet in E flat major K.452 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble 360.
    • Mozart: Chamber Works.
    • ASV.
    • 7.
  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    Dance of the Hours - conclusion (La Giaconda)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The Best of The Academy.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.
  • John Dowland

    Awake, sweet love, thou art return'd

    Performer: Nigel North.
    • Dowland: Lute Music 4.
    • Naxos.
    • 16.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Gloria (Dixit Dominus II)

    Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Singer: Sally Bruce-Payne. Singer: Guy Cutting. Singer: Matthew Brook. Choir: Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford.
    • Handel; Scarlatti: Dixit Dominus.
    • Avie.
    • 8.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor, Op 11 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Perahia Plays Chopin.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Ombra mai fu (Serse)

    Orchestrator: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Singer: Andreas Scholl.
    • Handel: Ombra mai fu: Andreas Scholl, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in F major, Op.46 no.4

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, op.46 and op.72.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 4.
  • Henryk Wieniawski

    Caprice in A minor

    Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler. Performer: Kyung Wha Chung. Performer: Phillip Moll.
    • DECCA.
    • 478 2660.
    • 11.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto RV.425 1st mov

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Director: Fabio Biondi. Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Vivaldi: Concerti er Mandolini: Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi.
    • Virgin Veritas.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Triana (Iberia Bk 2)

    Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Yuja Wang - Fantasia.
    • DG.
    • 7.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Norfolk Rhapsody No 2

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in G major, Op 1 No 2 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Vienna Piano Trio.
    • Beethoven: Piano Trios Op.1, Nos. 2 and 3.
    • Nimbus Records.
    • 4.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Waltz from Masquerade, Suite No.1

    Orchestra: Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Lazarev.
    • ERATO.
    • 4509-94677-2.
    • 5.
  • Franz Schubert

    Auf der Donau, D.553

    Performer: Florian Boesch. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • HYPERION.
    • CDA68010.
    • 6.
  • Franz Schubert

    Auf der Bruck, D.853

    Performer: Florian Boesch. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
    • HYPERION.
    • CDA 68010.
    • 7.
  • Richard Wagner

    Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg - Prelude

    Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
    • Wagner: Overtures and Preludes: Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Barenboim.
    • Teldec.
    • 5.

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