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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 2 Jun 2018 07:00

Music Played

  • Giovanni Paisiello

    Il barbiere di Siviglia (Overture)

    Orchestra: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: 8 Bit.
    • HUGAROTON.
  • Dmitry Bortniansky

    Cherubic Hymn no.7

    Choir: Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV 1043

    Performer: Cecilia Bernardini. Performer: Huw Daniel. Orchestra: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • LINN.
  • Franz Liszt

    Harmonies du soir

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's Dream Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O virtus sapientiae

    Singer: Kirsteen Rogers. Choir: Armonico Consort. Director: Christopher Monks.
    • Naked Byrd two: Armonico Consort.
    • Signum Classics.
  • John Dowland

    Flow my tears; Can she excuse my wrongs

    Music Arranger: John Harle. Music Arranger: John Lenehan. Performer: John Harle. Performer: John Lenehan.
    • Saxophone Songbook.
    • Unicorn-Kanchana.
    • 5-6.
  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No 4

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Duke Ellington

    In a mellotone

    Ensemble: Blanton-Webster Big Band.
    • RCA.
    • 22.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Trois Jours de Vendange

    Singer: V茅ronique Gens. Performer: Susan Manoff.
    • Alpha 215.
    • Alpha.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 4 in D major, K.19

    Ensemble: The Mozartists. Conductor: Ian Page.
    • Mozart In London.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
    • 16-18.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    脡l茅gie Op.24

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Pascal Devoyon.
    • RCA.
  • William Boyce

    The King Shall Rejoice

    Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Coronation Anthems: Academy of Ancient Music/New College Choir/Higginbottom.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • John Adams

    Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Edo de Waart.
    • John Adams: The Chairman Dances/Two Fanfares/Other works: San Francisco Symphony.
    • Elektra.
    • 4.
  • Cole Porter

    High society (Overture)

    Orchestra: John Wilson Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Cole Porter in Hollywood.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
    • 9.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no.12 in A flat major Op.26 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.
    • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Opp.26, 27 & 49.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Tzigane

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Fantasie.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

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