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Why Music? Weekend: Sunday

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and exploring musical earworms: catchy tunes that become stuck in people's minds.

Continuing Radio 3's weekend of broadcasts from Wellcome Collection in London, exploring why music makes us human. Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, live from the pop-up studio at Wellcome Collection caf茅. Featuring more listener requests for spine-tingling music - those thrilling pieces which make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. As part of the Radio 3 Wellcome Collection 'Why Music?' weekend.

Plus: Griff Rhys Jones's Wellcome Objects. In the fifth and final episode of his recorded series, comedian and actor Griff Rhys Jones explores some of the weird and wonderful objects on display in Wellcome Collection's Reading Room. With the help of Simon Chaplin, Wellcome Trust's Director of Culture and Society, Griff finds out what earthly use is a two-foot wide, waxwork mosquito.

(NB: Wellcome Collection caf茅 is open to the public from 0800.)

Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

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Sun 27 Sep 2015 08:00

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet Auf: Opening Chorus

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Monteverdi Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping beauty - suite (Op.66a), Waltz

    Conductor: James Levine. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Tchaikovsky: Ballet suites: Levine.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 11.
  • Edward Elgar

    4 Choral songs Op.53: no.1; There is sweet music

    Choir: The Rodolfus Choir. Director: Ralph Allwood.
    • Elgar: Go, Song of Mine.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 9.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Helios Overture

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • DACAPO.
    • 14.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness (The Yellow Cake Revue)

    Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • Peter Maxwell Davies: A Celebration of Scotland: Scottish Chamber Orch & Choir.
    • Unicorn-Kanchana.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in C major, K.373

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Sir James MacMillan.
    • DG.
  • Richard Strauss

    Hab' mir's gelobt (Der Rosenkavalier)

    Singer: Diana Damrau. Singer: Adrianne Pieczonka. Singer: El墨na Garan膷a. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Fabio Luisi.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 9.

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