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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 4 Apr 2021 07:00

Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Easter (5 Mystical Songs)

    Singer: Thomas Allen. Choir: Corydon Singers. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Matthew Best.
    • Vaughan Williams: Serenade, Flos Campi, Five Mystical Songs.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Perpetuum mobile Op.257

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Strauss: Perpetuum mobile, BFO, Fischer.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 18.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet Op.55'2 "Razor" (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: London Haydn Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Opp 54 & 55.
    • Hyperion.
    • 008.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Merchant of Venice (Introduction)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Vivian Dunn.
    • WARNER.
  • Frank Bridge

    Spring Song (4 Short Pieces)

    Performer: Steven Doane. Performer: Barry Snyder.
    • Bridge Records.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Der Himmel lacht! Die Erde jubilieret! (Cantata BWV.31)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SDG.
  • John Foulds

    April-England Op.48`1

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Foulds - Orchestral Works.
    • Warner Apex.
    • 4.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Piano Sonata in A major 'Easter' (1st mvt)

    Performer: 脡ric Heidsieck.
    • CASSIOPEE.
  • Adam Schoenberg

    Picture Studies (Pigeons in Flight)

    Orchestra: Kansas City Symphony. Conductor: Michael Stern.
    • Adam Schoenberg: American Symphony, Finding Rothko & Picture Studies.
    • Reference Recordings.
    • 310.
  • Jorge Morel

    Danza brasilera

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Adolphus Hailstork

    Three Spirituals (Oh Freedom)

    Orchestra: Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Adolphus Hailstork: An American Port of Call.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Ich bin die Auferstehung BuxWV.44

    Singer: Jakob Bloch Jespersen. Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
    • DaCapo.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Flight into Egypt (Church Windows)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Traditional Canadian

    Reel du Lac Bell

    Ensemble: De Temps Antan.
    • Les habits de papier.
    • L-Abe.
    • 005.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Eyze sheleg! (5 Hebrew Love Songs)

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Choir: Laudibus. Ensemble: Pav茫o String Quartet. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Eric Whitacre, Light & Gold.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Violin Concerto no.2 in B minor Op.7 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Yehudi Menuhin. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Alberto Erede.
    • Paganini: Violin Concertos Nos.1&2: Menuhin/Erede.
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Suite no.1 for 2 pianos Op.5 (Holiday)

    Performer: Andr茅 Previn. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Dumbarton Oaks (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Igor Stravinsky.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Dudley Moore

    And The Same To You

    Performer: Dudley Moore Trio.
    • British Comedy Classics.
    • EMI.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Antiphon 'Let All The World' (Five Mystical Songs)

    Choir: Corydon Singers. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Matthew Best.
    • Hyperion.

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  • Sun 4 Apr 2021 07:00

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