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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. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours

Last on

Sun 11 Apr 2021 07:00

Music Played

  • Eric Coates

    Langham Place (London Again)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • AVIE.
  • Bohuslav Martin暖

    The Opening of the Wells (conclusion)

    Performer: Ivo Kah谩nek. Ensemble: Bennewitz String Quartet. Choir: Prague Philharmonic Choir. Conductor: Luk谩拧 Vasilek.
    • Supraphon.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Feria (Rapsodie espagnole)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥 Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • Ravel: Rhapsodie Espagnole etc: Orchestre de Paris/Bychkov.
    • Philips.
    • 4.
  • Florence Price

    Dance of the Cotton Blossoms

    Performer: Althea Waites.
    • Black Diamonds.
    • Cambria.
    • 007.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D major Op.61 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: The Knights. Conductor: Eric Jacobsen.
    • Beethoven, Brahms: Violin Concertos.
    • Canary Classics.
    • 103.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Love's Labour's Lost Op.28b (3 Soliloquies)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 4-6.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Credo (Mass in C major, K 317, 'Coronation')

    Singer: Teresa Wakim. Singer: Paula Murrihy. Singer: Thomas Cooley. Singer: Sumner Thompson. Orchestra: Handel and Haydn Society. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
  • Claude Debussy

    Jardins sous la pluie (Estampes)

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 15.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Dorilla in Tempo RV.709 (Dell'aura al sussurrar)

    Choir: Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera. Ensemble: I Barocchisti. Conductor: Diego Fasolis.
    • NAIVE.
  • Trad

    Dick's Maggot (English folk dances - suite no.1)

    Music Arranger: Ernest Tomlinson. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • Marco Polo.
  • John Playford

    A New Scotch Jig (The English Dancing Master)

    Ensemble: The Harp Consort. Director: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing.
    • BMG.
  • Gustav Mahler

    I went this morning over the field (Songs of a Wayfarer)

    Singer: Christian Gerhaher. Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Steve Reich

    New York Counterpoint (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bliss.
    • Signum.
  • Trad.

    A frog he would a wooing go

    Performer: Alan Mills.
    • Dominion.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Concerto in D major H.18.11 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin. Ensemble: Les Violons du Roy. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.
    • Hyperion.
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk

    Serenade to a Cuckoo

    Ensemble: Jethro Tull.
    • Capitol.
  • Frederick Delius

    On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Delius: Orchestral Works: London Philharmonic Orchestra/Handley.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
    • 2.
  • Padre Antonio Soler

    Sonata No 84 in D major

    Performer: Scott Ross.
    • Padre Soler - Fandango/Sonates.
    • Erato.
    • 009.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Laudi alla Vergine Maria (Quattro pezzi sacri)

    Choir: Radiok枚ren. Choir: Stockholms kammark枚r. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces: Muti.
    • EMI.
    • 3.

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