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Sunday at Free Thinking

Martin Handley presents a special Free Thinking edition of Radio 3's classical Breakfast show live from Sage Gateshead, featuring listener requests.

Email: 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 19 Mar 2017 07:00

Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    La Vallee des cloches

    Orchestrator: Percy Grainger. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 7.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso in D major, Op.6`4

    Ensemble: Avison Ensemble. Director: Pavlo Beznosiuk.
    • Arcangelo Corelli: Opus 6: Concerti Grossi: Avison Ensemble/Beznosiuk.
    • Linn.
    • 14.
  • Erik Satie

    Gymnopedie No.1

    Performer: Reinbert de Leeuw.
    • Satie: Early Piano Works, Volume 2.
    • Philips.
    • 5.
  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un matin de Printemps

    Orchestra: Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Stringer.
    • Timpani.
  • Trad.

    Bonny at Morn

    Music Arranger: William Gillies Whittaker. Choir: Sinfonia Chorus. Conductor: Alan Fearon.
    • VIKING.
  • John Cage

    ASLSP (As Slow As Possible) - extract

    Performer: Organ at the St. Burchardi Church, Halberstadt, Germany.
    • Recording courtesy of MDR Leipzig.
  • John Cage

    ORGAN2/ASLSP (extract)

    Performer: Gerd Zacher.
    • SANDREW METRONOME.
  • John Cage

    Movement 1 from ASLSP (original version)

    Performer: Unnamed pianist from the Cage Ensemble Hamburg.
    • TELOS.
    • 8.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio No.6 in E flat major Op 70 No.2, 3rd movement (Allegretto ma non troppo)

    Ensemble: Kungsbacka Trio.
    • 大象传媒 recording.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Moto perpetuo in C major, Op.11

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: G枚ran S枚llscher.
    • Paganini for Two: Gil Shaham/Goran Sollscher.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 22.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Muthig Voran! Polka-schnell, Op 432

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Franz Welser鈥怣枚st.
    • Neujahrskonzert/New Year's Concert 2011; Weiner Philharmoniker/Wesler-Most.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Trad.

    Water o'Tyne

    Singer: Thomas Allen.
    • Thomas Allen: More Songs My Father Taught Me.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Rutland Boughton

    Three Folk Dances (The Weary Wave o' Tyne)

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • R. Boughton: Aylesbury Games etc: Beynon/New London Orchestra/Corp.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Trad.

    The Tyne Bridge Hornpipe

    Music Arranger: Kathryn Tickell. Ensemble: Kathryn Tickell Band.
    • The Kathryn Tickell Band.
    • Black Crow.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Fantasy in F minor for a musical clock, K 608

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • The World of The Organ, Simon Preston.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Old King Cole (Jolly Thresherman & Solo Jig)

    Performer: Bradley Creswick. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Vaughan Williams: Old King Cole.
    • EMI.
    • 7-8.
  • Thomas Wilbrandt

    Still. Time. (Alone, for a second)

    Orchestra: Modern Sinfonietta. Conductor: Thomas Wilbrandt.
    • Erik Satie: Alone for a second: Thomas Wilbrandt.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Waltzes, Op 39 (Nos 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 14 and 15)

    Performer: Dinu Lipatti. Performer: Nadia Boulanger.
    • EMI.

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