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Sunday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show including a Sunday morning Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape, and another instalment of the Sunday Breakfast Birdsong School - help with identifying individual spring birdsong from Lucy Hodson of the RSPB.

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2 hours

Last on

Sun 28 Mar 2021 07:00

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Himmelskonig, sei willkommen BWV.182 (Sinfonia & opening chorus)

    Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Bach, J.S.: Cantatas, Vol. 3 - Bwv 12, 54, 162, 182.
    • BIS.
    • 401.
  • Ronald Binge

    Saxophone Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Kenneth Edge. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • Marco Polo.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in D major H.16.37

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit (A German Requiem)

    Singer: Anna Lucia Richter. Choir: MDR Leipzig Radio Choir. Orchestra: MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Naxos.
  • Jacques Ibert

    The Little White Donkey

    Performer: James Galway. Performer: Phillip Moll.
    • RCA.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no.3 "The Sunday Symphony" (Prayer)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Still: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3.
    • Naxos.
    • 10.
  • Liza Lehmann

    The Wren (Birdsongs)

    Singer: Janice Watson. Performer: Steuart Bedford.
    • Naxos.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Glagolitic Mass (Organ solo & Intrada)

    Performer: Jan Hora. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Supraphon.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Villanelle (Les Nuits d'ete)

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.
  • Thomas Morley

    Those dainty daffadillies

    Ensemble: The Scholars.
    • Enigma.
  • Clive Richardson

    Beachcomber

    Performer: David Munrow. Performer: John Turner. Performer: David Pugsley. Performer: Alan Lumsden.
    • EMI.
  • Edvard Grieg

    To Spring (Lyric pieces - book 3 Op.43)

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • DG.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    The Wood Thrush (Des Canyons aux Etoiles)

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Messiaen: Des canyons aux 茅toiles.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 003.
  • George Butterworth

    Sowing the seeds of love (11 Folk-songs from Sussex)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • George Butterworth, Songs from A Shropshire Lad: Williams / Burnside.
    • Naxos.
    • 22.
  • Rob Harbron

    Sussex Waltz

    Composer: Tim van Eyken. Performer: Rob Harbron. Performer: Tim van Eyken.
    • One Sunday Afternoon.
    • Beautiful Jo Records.
  • Chuck Berry

    The Woodpecker

    Performer: Chuck Berry. Ensemble: Elephant鈥檚 Memory.
    • CHESS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A Major K.622 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Mario Venzago.
    • Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto - W.A. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 6.
  • Claude Debussy

    Le Livre de Baudelaire (Le Jet d'Eau)

    Orchestrator: John Adams. Singer: Susan Graham. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The Seven last words of our Saviour on the Cross H.20.1b (Sonata I, Largo)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • Haydn: Die Sieben Letzten Worte.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 2.
  • Jenny McLeod

    Rock Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Eugene Albulescu. Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Uwe Grodd.
    • Naxos.

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  • Sun 28 Mar 2021 07:00

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