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Saturday - Music in the Great War

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring music from World War I, the Best of British Music Playlist and listener requests.

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, including music from World War I and the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers and amateur music-making groups.

Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 5 Jul 2014 07:00

Music Played

  • Richard Heuberger

    Der Opernball Op.40 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • German Operetta Overtures: Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 7.
  • Gustav Holst

    Hymn to the Dawn (Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda)

    Choir: Etherea Vocal Ensemble. Performer: Grace Cloutier. Director: Derek Greten-Harrison.
    • Hymn to the Dawn.
    • Delos.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Variations concertantes for cello and piano (Op.17)

    Performer: J谩nos Starker. Performer: Gy枚rgy Seb枚k.
    • Janos Starker: Cello Recital.
    • Mercury.
    • 5.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in B flat major for oboe and violin, RV. 548

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Vivaldi II: Nigel Kennedy, Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Ernest Farrar

    In Brittany

    Performer: Robin Tritschler. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • SIGCD 401.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • William Sterndale Bennett

    Caprice in E major for piano and orchestra, Op 22

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Director: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Sterndale Bennett; Bache - Piano Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    English Suite no.2 in A minor BW. 807 (Prelude)

    Music Arranger: Colin Currie. Music Arranger: Sam Walton. Performer: Colin Currie. Performer: Sam Walton.
    • Striking a Balance.
    • EMI.
    • 11.
  • Michelangelo Falvetti

    Il Diluvio Universale: Ho pur vinto (tarantelle)

    Performer: Fabi谩n Schofrin. Performer: Cappella Mediterranea. Conductor: Leonardo Garc铆a Alarc贸n.
    • AMY026.
    • AMBRONAY.
    • 26.
  • Charles Williams and His Concert Orchestra

    Girls In Grey

  • Liza Lehmann

    Myself when young (In a Persian garden)

    Singer: John Tomlinson. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: David Parry.
    • John Tomlinson: Great Operatic Arias.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major, D.485 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Schubert: Symphonies no.5 & 6: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Constant Lambert

    The Rio Grande

    Singer: Sally Burgess. Performer: Jack Gibbons. Choir: Chorus of Opera North. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Lambert: Summer's Last Will and Testament; The Rio Grande.
    • HYPERION.
    • 1.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Le Carnaval des animaux, no.13; Le Cygne [vc, 2 pf]

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Michael Tilson Thomas. Performer: Dudley Moore.
    • Cello World: Steven Isserlis.
    • RCA.
    • 7.
  • Henry Purcell

    Symphony [Sonata while the sun rises] (The Fairy Queen)

    Music Arranger: Alison Balsom. Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • EMI.
  • Gordon Jacob

    Divertimento..: 7th mvt; Elegy (Adagio); 8th mvt; Jig (Allegro vivace)

    Performer: Tommy Reilly. Ensemble: The Hindar Quartet.
    • Jacob: Divertimento etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 7-8.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Petite suite orch. Glazunov [orig. for piano], Mazurka Rustique

    Orchestrator: Alexander Glazunov. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • CACD 1029.
    • CALA.
    • 10.

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