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Saturday - Martin Handley

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

Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

1 hour, 58 minutes

Last on

Sat 21 Nov 2015 07:00

Music Played

  • Malcolm Williamson

    Tarantella (Sinfonietta)

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Williamson: Orchestral Works, Volume 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Te Deum in C major H.23c.2

    Choir: The English Concert Choir. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Haydn: Nelson Mass, Te Deum: The English Concert, Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 12-14.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Suite for jazz band (Waltz 2)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
    • Decca.
    • 13.
  • Robert Schumann

    Quartet in A minor Op.41, No 1 for strings, 3rd mvt Adagio

    Ensemble: Elias Quartet.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Largo al Factotum

    Singer: Thomas Hampson. Orchestra: Orchestra della Toscana. Conductor: Gianluigi Gelmetti.
    • The Opera Album 2002.
    • Virgin.
    • 15.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    November: Troika from The Seasons, Op.37a

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Lang Lang in Paris.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 11.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    December: Christmas, from The Seasons, Op. 37a

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Lang Lang in Paris.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in D major: 1st mvt - Allegro di molto

    Performer: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Performer: Rebecca Miller.
    • Signum.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Symphonic Serenade (Finale)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • Chandos.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Romanian Folk Dances Sz.56

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Dance: Works for piano: Kathryn Stott.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Sons of Light, Second Movement - the Song of the Zodiac

    Performer: David Lloyd-Jones. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Naxos.
  • Rued Langgaard

    String Quartet No 5 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nightingale String Quartet.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D minor RV.565, Op.3`11

    Performer: Georg Kallweit. Performer: Elfa R煤n Kristinsd贸ttir. Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music. Director: Georg Kallweit.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Study in C sharp minor, Op.2 no.1

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 2.
  • Henry Purcell

    Ah, Belinda (Dido and Aeneas)

    Music Arranger: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Singer: Raquel Andueza. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Conductor: Christina Pluhar.
    • Erato.
  • Eric Coates

    London Suite: I. Covent Garden (Tarantelle)

    Orchestra: Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • Mercury Living Presence.

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