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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

2 hours

Last on

Sun 18 Jul 2021 07:00

Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet no.2 in A minor Op.13 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Elias String Quartet.
    • ASV.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    8 Russian folk songs Op.58 (nos 5-8)

    Orchestra: USSR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • MELODIYA.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Cloud capp'd towers (3 Shakespeare Songs)

    Choir: Nederlands Kamerkoor. Conductor: John Alldis.
    • English Choral Music.
    • GLOBE.
    • 2.
  • Ivor Gurney

    Sleep (5 Elizabethan Songs)

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • EMI.
  • Georg Matthias Monn

    Cello Concerto in G minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Petra M眉llejans.
    • Haydn: Concertos for Cello: Queyras/Freiburger Barockorchester/Mullejans.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 9.
  • Traditional Chant

    Sequence Veni Sancte Spiritus

    Choir: Benedictine Nuns of Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation, Le Barroux. Director: Claude Pateau.
    • DECCA.
  • Morton Feldman

    Rothko Chapel (Coda)

    Performer: Karen Phillips. Performer: James Holland. Choir: Gregg Smith Singers. Conductor: Gregg Smith.
    • USWGBH.
  • Frank Bridge

    Seascape (The Sea)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Pauline Viardot

    Havanaise

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
  • Kenneth Blain

    The Bee Song

    Singer: Arthur Askey.
    • You Must Remember This.
    • Conifer.
    • 12.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Humming Chorus (Madam Butterfly)

    Choir: Vienna State Opera Choir. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Your Hundred Best Opera Tunes IV.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Bianca e Falliero (Overture)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Rossini: 10 Overtures - Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Meine Freuden (6 Polish Songs S.480)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Decca.
  • Claude Debussy

    Syrinx

    Performer: James Galway.
    • RCA.
  • Michael Tippett

    Fantasia concertante on a theme of Corelli (extract)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • DECCA.
  • Sally Whitwell

    Nightingale (The Birds)

    Singer: Alexandra Oomens. Performer: Sally Whitwell.
    • ABC Classics.
  • Adolf von Henselt

    Piano Trio Op.24 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Claudius Tanski. Performer: Benjamin Schmid. Performer: Clemens Hagen.
    • Henselt: Piano Trio, Duo, Variations.
    • MDG Gold.
    • 4.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Riddle Of The Barrel-Organ Player - Postlude: Hunting (Suite in Old Style)

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Vaiva Eidukaityt臈-Storastien臈. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras.
    • ECM.
  • Maurice Durufl茅

    Ubi caritas (4 Motets sur des themes gregoriens Op.10)

    Choir: Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge. Director: Richard Marlow.
    • Glorious Trinity: The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Marlow.
    • Conifer.
    • 5.
  • Traditional Greenlandic

    Tivaniarpunga

    Choir: Aavaat-koret.
    • Qooquaqqat.
    • Unknown.
    • 10.
  • Traditional Greenlandic

    Ikerasak (Traditional Song)

    Music Arranger: G谩man. Ensemble: G谩man.
    • Early & Late.
    • DaCapo.
    • 010.
  • John Ireland

    Bagatelle

    Performer: Lucy Gould. Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • Ireland: Piano Trios.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.

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