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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 2 May 2021 07:00

Music Played

  • Ernest John Moeran

    On a May morning

    Performer: Iris Loveridge.
    • Lyrita.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (R眉ckert-Lieder)

    Singer: Christa Ludwig. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Otto Klemperer.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Pedro Ant贸nio Avondano

    Sinfonia in D

    Ensemble: Divino Sospiro. Director: Massimo Mazzeo.
    • Recording courtesty of the European Broadcasting Union.
  • Anthony Payne

    A 1940s Childhood (Soldiers Marching - Country Walks)

    Performer: Judith Hall. Performer: Elinor Bennett.
    • Images and Impressions: Music for Flute & Harp.
    • Nimbus.
    • 14.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in E flat major D.899 no.2

    Performer: Eric Lu.
    • Late Works by Mozart, Schubert & Brahms.
    • Genuin.
    • 3.
  • Basil Harwood

    O how glorious is the kingdom

    Choir: The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. Performer: Alexander Pott. Conductor: Mark Williams.
    • Opus Arte.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    On a tree by a river [Tit Willow] (The Mikado)

    Librettist: William Gilbert. Singer: Richard Suart. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Telarc.
  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez (1st mvt)

    Performer: Xuefei Yang. Orchestra: Orquestra Simf貌nica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. Conductor: Eije Oue.
    • Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez: Xuefei Yang.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    Piano Quintet Op.89 (4th mvt)

    Music Arranger: Christoph Enzel. Ensemble: Clair-Obscur Saxophone Quartet. Performer: Elisaveta Blumina.
    • Kapustin: Saxophone Chamber Music.
    • Capriccio.
    • 4.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music Suite in D major HWV.349 (Prelude; Alla Hornpipe)

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Herv茅 Niquet.
    • Water Music & Fireworks.
    • Glossa.
    • 10-11.
  • Emmerich Imre Kalman

    Treu zu sein (Die Bajadere)

    Singer: Anke Vondung. Singer: Stephan Genz. Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchester K枚ln. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • K谩lm谩n: Die Bajadere.
    • CPO.
    • 102.
  • Eug猫ne Ysa每e

    Solo Violin Sonata no.2 in A Minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Maxim Brilinsky.
    • Ysa每e: 6 Solo Violin Sonatas, Op. 27.
    • haenssler CLASSIC.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    Fruhlingssehnsucht (Schwanengesang D.957)

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Matthew Rose.
    • STONE RECORDS.
  • Marie Daulne

    Mupepe

    Ensemble: Zap Mama.
    • Adventures In Afropea 1.
    • Luaka Bop.
    • 1.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    May Night (Overture)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Philips.
  • Jean Fran莽aix

    Quartet for cor anglais, violin, viola and cello (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Britten Oboe Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Magnificat in D major Wq.215 (Magnificat anima mea)

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music. Conductor: Hans-Christoph Rademann.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Ravi Shankar

    Karnataki (Raga Kirvani)

    Performer: Nodu Mullick.
    • BGO.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    I am easily assimilated (Candide)

    Singer: Christa Ludwig. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 16.

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  • Sun 2 May 2021 07:00

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