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24/05/2014

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist and listener requests. Plus requests for works by neglected composers.

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

Sat 24 May 2014 07:00

Music Played

  • L茅o Delibes

    Copp茅lia Waltz arr Dohnanyi

    Performer: Martin Roscoe. Music Arranger: Erno Dohnanyi.
    • Dohnanyi: Piano Music: Martin Roscoe.
    • Hyperion.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto in C major for flute and harp, K 299 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Marie鈥怭ierre Langlamet. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart Flute Concertos Concerto For Flute And Harp.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Jubilate Deo omnis terra for 8 voices

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Les v锚pres siciliennes (Overture)

    Conductor: Riccardo Chailly. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Famous Italian Overtures - Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Tambourin Chinois Op.3

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Performer: Paul Coker.
    • Joshua Bell: The Kreisler Album.
    • Decca.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Romanian Folk Dances

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra etc: Sakari Oramo.
    • Warner.
    • 9.
  • Roger Quilter

    Fear no more the heat o鈥 the sun; Under the greenwood Tree (Five Shakespeare Songs, Op.23)

    Performer: John Mark Ainsley. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • CDA66878.
    • HYPERION.
    • 15-16.
  • Dag Wir茅n

    Marcia (Serenade in C major, Op 11)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Grieg, Sibelius, Nielsen, Wiren: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Marriner.
    • Decca.
    • 15.
  • Francis Poulenc

    L'embarquement pour Cyth猫re

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que.
    • Philips.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Las Cuatro estaciones portenas (Primavera portena)

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Orchestra: Kremerata Baltica. Director: Gidon Kremer.
    • Eight Seasons: Gidon Kremer / Kremerata Baltica.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 16.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Fidelio (Leonore) - opera Op.72 final vers. [1814] in 2 acts: Overture

    Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Beethoven: Overtures.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 8.
  • Ivor Gurney

    When I was one and twenty & The Lent Lily from Ludlow and Teme

    Singer: James Gilchrist. Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet.
    • On Wenlock Edge.
    • LINN.
    • 14-15.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ concerto in F, Op. 7 No. 13 "The Cuckoo and the nightingale"

    Performer: Simon Preston. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Handel: Organ Concertos: Simon Preston.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 17-20.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Suite for jazz band (Waltz 2)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
    • Decca.
    • 13.
  • Daniel Speer

    Gigue

    Performer: Christian Lindberg. Ensemble: Soloists of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
    • CD-1688.
    • BIS.
    • 5.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Introduction and polonaise for cello and piano (Op.3) in C major

    Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Martha Argerich and Friends; Live from Lugano 2009.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
    • 7-8.

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