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Saturday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with the Best of British Music Playlist and Georgian Gems. Plus requests for amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.

18th Century season. Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring Handel at half-past eight and Georgian Gems, compiled from listener requests. Also, including the Best of British music Playlist and your requests for amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 26 Apr 2014 07:00

Music Played

  • William Lawes

    Consort suite 'for the violls' a 6 no. 3 in F major "Sunrise": Aire

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • 791 187-2.
    • VIRGIN.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Stabat Mater: Quando corpus morietur

    Performer: Ilse Eerens. Performer: Michaela Selinger. Performer: Maximilian Schmitt. Performer: Florian Boesch. Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • LPH 009.
    • PHI.
    • 10.
  • Edwin York Bowen

    Three Serious Dances, Op 51 (No 2)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, Op 28

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • The best of Maxim Vengerov: Maxim Vengerov.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.
  • Bernhard Crusell

    Divertimento, Op.9

    Performer: Sarah Francis. Ensemble: Allegri String Quartet.
    • Oboe Quintets: Sarah Francis, The Allegri String Quartet.
    • Helios.
    • 1-4.
  • Thomas Attwood

    I was glad (Coronation Anthem for King George IV)

    Choir: Aylesbury Choral Society. Ensemble: Frideswide Ensemble of Oxford. Conductor: Peter Leech.
    • Exceeding Glad - Anthems and Choruses from Georgian England.
    • Private Recording.
    • 16.
  • Richard Strauss

    Romance for cello and orchestra

    Performer: Thomas Grossenbacher. Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • 74321 984962.
    • ARTE NOVA.
    • 13.
  • Julius Fucik

    Florentiner-Marsch

    Conductor: V谩clav Neumann. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic.
    • Dvorak, Fucik: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Vaclav Neumann.
    • Apex.
    • 1.
  • Anon.

    Sumer is icumen in

    Ensemble: The Dufay Collective.
    • MIRI IT IS.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 20.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the Dance

    Orchestrator: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Kaleidoscope: An Orchestral Extravaganza: Mackerras, LSO.
    • Mercury.
    • 12.
  • Count Basie

    One o'Clock Jump

    Orchestra: The Count Basie Orchestra.
    • No details.
    • No details.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.3`6

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Handel: Concerti Grossi Op.3: English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
    • Apex.
    • 10.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Si mostra la sorte - aria K.209 for tenor and orchestra

    Singer: Rolando Villaz贸n. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Rolando Villazon: Mozart.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Scherzo Capriccioso, Op.66

    Orchestra: Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.
    • DG.

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