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Saturday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

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2 hours

Last on

Sat 21 Mar 2015 07:00

Music Played

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Long day closes for a capella choir

    Performer: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • SIGNUM.
    • CLASSICS SIGCD 147.
  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Hary Janos - suite Op.35a [1927]

    Conductor: M谩ty谩s Antal. Performer: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra.
  • Ruth Crawford Seeger

    RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER: Theme and Variations

    Performer: Jenny Lin.
    • BIS.
    • BIS-CD-1310.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto no. 26 in D major K.537 (Coronation) for piano and orchestra

    Conductor: Pierre Boulez. Performer: Clifford Curzon. Performer: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra.
    • 大象传媒 LEGENDS.
    • 大象传媒L 4020-2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Ottone, re di Germania - opera in 3 acts

    Performer: Riccardo Minasi. Performer: Xavier Sabata. Performer: Il Pomo d鈥橭ro.
    • APARTE.
    • AP 048.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Sorochinskaya yarmarka [Sorochintsy fair] - comic opera, compl. Lyadov, V.G.Karatigin and others

    Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov. Performer: Russian State S O.
    • RCA.
    • 09026- 68406 2.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric pieces - book 5 Op.54 for piano

    Performer: Peter Katin.
    • UNICORN-KANCHANA.
    • UKCD-2034.
  • Niels Wilhelm Gade

    Fruhlings-Fantasie Op.23 for solo voices, piano and orchestra

    Conductor: Michael Sch酶nwandt. Performer: Anne Margrethe Dahl. Performer: Elisabeth Westenholz. Performer: Gert Henning-Jensen. Performer: Kirsten Dolberg. Performer: Sten Byriel. Performer: Tivoli Concert Choir. Performer: Tivoli S O.
    • DACAPO.
    • 8.224051.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg variations BWV.988, arr. Sitkovetsky for string orchestra [orig. BWV.988 for kb]

    Performer: Thomas Gould. Performer: Britten Sinfonia.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • HMU 807633.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Elegie in G minor Op.44 for viola and piano

    Performer: Nobuko Imai. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • BIS.
    • BIS-CD-358.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no. 9 in C major D.944 (Great)

    Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Performer: Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 427 646-2.
  • Alonso Lobo

    Versa est in luctum for 6 voices [SSATTB] [Liber primus missarum, 1602]

    Conductor: Harry Christophers. Performer: The Sixteen.
    • CORO.
    • COR 16128.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Trio in D major H.11.118 for baryton, viola and cello

    Performer: Esterhazy Ensemble.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
    • 93907.
  • E.J. Moeran

    Overture for a festival in D major, orch. Newton

    Conductor: Martin Yates. Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • DUTTON EPOCH.
    • CDLX 7281.

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