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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

Boxing Day 2021 07:00

Music Played

  • Zdenek Fibich

    Quintet in D major Op.42 (Largo)

    Ensemble: Endymion.
    • ASV.
  • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    Pastorale sur la naissance de notre Seigneur J茅sus Christ (Menuet; Fin)

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • Charpentier / Pastorale / Arts Florissants.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 12.
  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    8 Concert etudes Op.40 (no.7 'Intermezzo')

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • This & That: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Galton Concert Productions.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G major BWV.577 'A la Gigue'

    Ensemble: Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Kenneth Leighton

    A Hymn of the Nativity

    Singer: Julia Doyle. Choir: City of London Choir. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton.
    • In Terra Pax: A Christmas Anthology.
    • Naxos.
    • 10.
  • Josef Suk

    Meditation on an old Czech hymn 'St Wenceslas' Op.35a

    Orchestra: Camerata Z眉rich. Director: Igor Karsko.
    • ECM.
  • Rowland Huw Prichard

    Hyfrydol

    Choir: Only Men Aloud. Ensemble: Cory Band. Conductor: Karl Jenkins.
    • WARNER.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade no.1 in D major Op.11 (6th mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Obligat Hamburg.
    • Genuin.
  • Aaron King

    A Spotless Rose

    Choir: Luceat. Director: James Fellows.
    • Vidimus Gloriam Eius: A festival of Nine Lessons and Carols.
    • HYMNUS.
    • 11.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    La boutique fantasque

    Orchestra: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Rossini-Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque - Davis.
    • CBS.
    • 1.
  • Gustav Holst

    Hymn to the Dawn (Choral hymns from the Rig Veda - group 3 Op.26`3)

    Music Arranger: Julian Lloyd Webber. Performer: Catrin Finch. Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber. Performer: Jiaxin Lloyd Webber. Performer: Guy Johnson. Performer: Laura van der Heijden.
    • NAXOS.
    • 5.
  • Einojuhani Rautavaara

    Cantus Arcticus Op.61 (Melancholia)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • NAXOS.
    • 2.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Kinloch, his fantasie

    Ensemble: The Fires of London. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • Unicorn Kanchana.
    • 9.
  • Hieronymus Praetorius

    Angelus ad pastores ait a12

    Ensemble: Alamire. Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Performer: Stephen Farr. Director: David Skinner.
    • Inventa Records.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    Little Maid of Arcadee (Thespis, or The Gods grown old)

    Singer: Ben Johnson. Performer: David Owen Norris.
    • CHANDOS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    For unto us a child is born (Messiah)

    Choir: The English Concert Choir. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Handel: Messiah: The English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Der Schneemann (Prelude; Serenade)

    Performer: Heinz Haunold. Orchestrator: Alexander von Zemlinsky. Orchestra: Bruckner Orchestra of Linz. Conductor: Caspar Richter.
    • Korngold Orchestral Music.
    • ASV.
    • 8-9.
  • Johann Georg Albrechtsberger

    Harp Concerto in C Major (Finale)

    Performer: Andrea Vigh. Ensemble: Budapest Strings. Conductor: K谩roly Botvay.
    • Capriccio.

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