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Saturday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices and listener requests.

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. As part of "Classical Voice", we have been featuring Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 20 Favourite Voices. Each day, during the 20 days of the Classical Voice season, Dame Kiri, drawing on her own experience, selected a singer and illustrates in music - explaining in an entertaining and simple way - why she's selected this voice as one of her favourites. Today's singer is the last in the series.

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Sat 4 Jul 2015 07:00
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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    La vera costanza (Overture)

    Orchestra: Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta. Conductor: Manfred Huss.
    • BIS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Let thy hand be strengthened, HWV 259

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.

  • Jan Anton铆n Ko啪eluh

    Oboe Concerto in F major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Potsdam Chamber Academy.
    • Lost and Found.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.

  • Clara Schumann

    Mazurka in G minor (Soir茅es Musicales Op.6)

    Performer: Yoshiko Iwai.
    • Naxos.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Birds

    Conductor: Claudio Scimone. Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti.
    • Apex.

  • Joseph Willcox Jenkins

    American overture for orchestra

    Orchestra: Lone Star Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Migliaro Corporon.
    • American Tapestry.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Henry Balfour Gardiner

    Overture to a Comedy

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Overtures from the British Isles.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.

  • Michael Torke

    Javelin

    Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • Summon the heros: Boston Pops Orchestra/Williams.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    5 Novelettes Op.15 (Valse)

    Ensemble: Borodin Quartet.
    • Teldec.

  • Hubert Parry

    The Birds: Bridal March

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Lyrita.

  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus for piano (D.899) (Op.90); no.4 in A flat major

    Performer: Melvyn Tan.
    • Schubert: Impromptus; Melvyn Tan.
    • EMI.
    • 4.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the dance - rondo brillant

    Orchestrator: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • With Love from Vienna.
    • Philips.
    • 3.

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  • Sat 4 Jul 2015 07:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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