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Sunday - Martin Handley

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 9 Oct 2016 07:00

Music Played

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O Ecclesia

    Choir: Gothic Voices. Director: Christopher Page.
    • Hyperion.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    3 Fantastic Dances

    Performer: Dmitry Shostakovich.
    • EMI.
  • Jules Massenet

    Herodiade (Ballet Suite)

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jean-Yves Ossonce.
    • Naxos.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat major, Op.74 (3rd movement)

    • Warner Classics.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in G major, Op.3 No.3

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Philips.
  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor, Op.18 (2nd movement)

    Ensemble: Dartington Piano Trio.
    • Hyperion.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Brass Quintet no.1, Op.73 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • Malcolm Arnold.
    • Decca.
    • 16.
  • Bechara El-Khoury

    Danse des aigles

    Orchestra: Orchestre Colonne. Conductor: Pierre Dervaux.
    • Naxos.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    3 Waltzes, Op.64

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
  • Henry Purcell

    Thus to a ripe consenting maid [The old bachelor]

    Performer: Walter Bergmann. Singer: Alfred Deller.
    • EMI.
  • Michael Praetorius

    Suite de Voltes (Dances from Terpsichore)

    Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London. Conductor: David Munrow.
    • EMI.
  • Edward MacDowell

    Ophelia (Hamlet and Ophelia, Op.22)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Krueger.
    • Our Musical Past.
  • Robert Schumann

    St眉cke im Volkston ii) Langsam

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Olli Mustonen.

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  • Sun 9 Oct 2016 07:00

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