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Saturday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including requests for your favourite works and pieces that you would like to hear.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 29 Nov 2014 07:00

Music Played

  • Johann Georg Albrechtsberger

    Concerto in E major for Jew's Harp, Mandora and Orchestra (1st mvt)

    Performer: Fritz Mayr. Performer: Dieter Kirsch. Orchestra: M眉nchener Kammerorchester. Conductor: Hans Stadlmair.
    • Orfeo.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Orchestra: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Kahane.
    • 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 19.
  • George Butterworth

    2 English Idylls

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle: English Rhapsody.
    • Halle.
    • 2-3.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Aubade

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Dix Pieces Pittoresques and other piano music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore)

    Singer: Vittorio Grigolo. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Pier Giorgio Morandi.
    • Vittorio Grigolo - The Italian Tenor.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Mazurek in E minor, Op 49, arr. for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Dvorak: Violin Concerto; Romance; Mazurek; Humoresque.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • George Gershwin

    Variations on I got rhythm

    Performer: Lincoln Mayorga. Ensemble: Harmonie Ensemble New York. Conductor: Steven Richman.
    • Gershwin by Grofe: Harmonie Ensemble, New York.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Edvard Grieg

    3 Lyric Pieces: Waltz, Op. 12 No. 2

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.
  • George Frideric Handel

    De torrente in via bibet (Dixit Dominus)

    Singer: Angela Kazimierczuk. Singer: Katharine Fugue. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music Suite in D major HWV.349 (Prelude; Alla Hornpipe)

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Herv茅 Niquet.
    • Water Music & Fireworks.
    • Glossa.
    • 10-11.
  • Improvisation

    颁补苍谩谤颈辞蝉

    Ensemble: Tembembe Ensamble Continuo. Ensemble: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • El Nuevo Mundo: Fol铆as Criollas.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 12.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony no. 4 (Op.98) in E minor, 3rd movement; Allegro giocoso

    Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Brahms: Symphonies Nos.3 & 4: Berliner Philharmoniker/Herbert von Karajan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Rued Langgaard

    String Quartet No 5 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nightingale String Quartet.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 100 (H.1.100) in G major "Military", 3rd movement; Menuet

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 7.
  • Jules Massenet

    Le Cid - ballet suite, Castillane

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Delibes: Sylvia: National Philharmonic Orchestra: Richard Bonynge.
    • Decca.
    • 11.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Sonata for flute and piano

    Performer: Andrew West. Performer: Emily Beynon.
    • L'Album des Six: The complete works of The Six for flute and piano.
    • Hyperion.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major: Argerich, Berliner Phil, Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

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