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Sound Frontiers: Sunday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, featuring listener requests and Power of Three: a series of sounds from the 大象传媒 Third Programme and Radio 3 archives.

As part of Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre, London, Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show featuring listener requests and at 8.55am, "Power of Three" - the next instalment of a 70-part daily series of pioneering sounds from the 大象传媒 Third Programme and Radio 3 archives.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 2 Oct 2016 07:00

Music Played

  • 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.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux aurumque for chorus

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Choir: Laudibus. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Eric Whitacre, Light & Gold.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction and Allegro

    Performer: Osian Ellis. Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.
    • EMI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 3

    Orchestra: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Linn.
  • Louis Couperin

    Suite in A minor, Minuet de Poitou, Double par Mr Couperin

    Performer: Jane Chapman.
    • COLLINS.
    • 7.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Concerto for 2 pianos [3 hands] and orchestra (Op.104)

    Performer: David Nettle. Performer: Richard Markham. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Malcolm Arnold: Symphony No. 2 etc: Vernon Handley.
    • Conifer.
    • 2.
  • Richard Strauss

    Serenade in E flat major, Op.7

    Ensemble: Netherlands Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Edo de Waart.
    • Strauss: Complete Music for Wind Ensemble: Netherlands Wind Ensemble/de Waart.
    • Newton Classics.
  • Kevin Volans

    Second Dance (String Quartet no.1 'White Man Sleeps')

    Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • Pieces of Africa.
    • Elektra Nonesuch.
    • 8.
  • Donald Swann

    The Hippopotamus Song

    Lyricist: Michael Flanders. Ensemble: Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.
    • British Comedy Classics.
    • EMI.
    • 014.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Africa Fantasy Op.89

    Performer: Louis Lortie. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Three little maids (The Mikado)

    Singer: Lesley Garrett. Singer: Jean Rigby. Singer: Susan Bullock. Orchestra: The English National Opera Orchestra. Choir: English National Opera Chorus. Conductor: Peter Robinson.
    • THAT鈥橲 ENTERTAINMENT.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Autumn song (October) [from "The Seasons"]

    Music Arranger: Sergey Zhilin. Ensemble: Sergey Zhilin's Trio.
    • Tchaikovsky in Jazz.
    • MELODIYA.
    • 005.
  • William Boyce

    Trio Sonata No 2, 4th movement

    Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 7.

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