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Saturday - Martin Handley

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

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 20 Aug 2016 07:00

Music Played

  • Thomas Weelkes

    O Lord, arise - anthem for 7 voices

    Conductor: Timothy Brown. Performer: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge.
    • GUILD.
    • GMCD7115.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Little suite in A minor Op.1 for string orchestra [FS.56]

    Conductor: Ulf Schirmer. Performer: Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
    • Decca.
    • 452 486 2.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Scherzo no. 2 in B flat minor Op.31 for piano

    Performer: James Rhodes.
    • Signum.
    • SIGCD425.
  • Edward Elgar

    Rosemary (That's for remembrance), arr. for chamber orchestra [orig. for piano]

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Performer: Northern Sinfonia Of England.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 0954222.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in D major K.485 for piano

    Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • HMU 907499.
  • Henry Purcell

    King Arthur, or The British worthy Z.628

    Performer: Carolyn Sampson. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: Jonathan Manson. Performer: Laurence Cummings.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • WHLIVE0083.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

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

    Conductor: Charles Mackerras. Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • EMI.
    • 344123-2.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Baba-Yaga, Op.56

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Philips.
    • 442011 2.
  • Robert Russell Bennett

    Four Preludes for Band

    Conductor: Robert Russell Bennett. Conductor: Clark Rundell. Performer: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra.
    • CHANDOS.
    • CHAN10916.
  • Francis Poulenc

    2 Marches and an intermezzo for orchestra

    Conductor: Marcello Viotti. Performer: Baden Baden SW Radio Orchestra.
    • Claves.
    • 509111.
  • Ethel Smyth

    The Wreckers - opera

    Conductor: Alexandra Gibson. Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • CLASSIC FOR PLEASURE.
    • CD-CFP-4635.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Gartenlieder - 6 songs Op.3 for chorus

    Conductor: Elke Mascha Blankenburg. Performer: Cologne Leonarda Ensemble Choir.
    • CPO.
    • 999 012-2.
  • Ole Bull

    Preghiera dolente e rondo ridente for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Charlie Siem. Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2564666612.
  • Franz Liszt

    Liebestraume - 3 notturnos S.541 for piano

    Performer: Nicholas McCarthy.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2564605240.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata no. 49 BWV.49 (Ich geh' und suche mit Verlangen)

    Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Performer: Howard Moody. Performer: English Baroque Soloists.
    • SDG.
    • SDG 168.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Wedding day at Troldhaugen, orch. Breur [from 'Lyric pieces', book 8 no.6]

    Performer: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • Nexus.
    • 8.550864.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Seguidilla muricana

    Composer: Manuel de Falla.
    • Jube Classic.
    • 9029595463.
  • JONES

    FOR LENA AND LENNIE

    Music Arranger: N/A. Performer: Quincy Jones.
    • IMPULSE.
    • IMP-12222.
  • Oscar Peterson

    March Past

    Composer: Oscar Peterson. Music Arranger: Johannes Rupe. Music Arranger: Johannes Rupe.
    • GENUIN.
    • GEN 86077.

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