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New Year's Day - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.

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New Year's Day 2023 07:00

Music Played

  • William Boyce

    Overture no.12 in G major

    Orchestra: Cantilena. Conductor: Adrian Shepherd.
    • Boyce: Overtures and Concerti Grossi.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Traditional Indian

    Prabhati (based on Raga Gunkali) [a morning rag]

    Music Arranger: Ravi Shankar. Performer: Yehudi Menuhin.
    • West Meets East.
    • BGO.
    • 1.
  • John Foulds

    Indian Suite (Bhavanutha [A Joyful Song to Shri R膩ma])

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • John Foulds: Vol. 2.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 11.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Se pieta di me non senti (Giulio Cesare)

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Orchestra: Pygmalion. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
    • ERATO.
  • Arno Babajanian

    Piano Trio in F Sharp Minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Vadim Gluzman. Performer: Johannes Moser. Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • Tchaikovsky, Schnittke & Babajanian: Works for Piano Trio.
    • BIS.
    • 203.
  • Jo Quail

    The Calling

    Singer: Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari. Performer: Jo Quail.
    • Private recording.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The Seasons: final trio and chorus

    Singer: Christina Landshamer. Singer: Maximilian Schmitt. Singer: Florian Boesch. Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs鈥惷塴ys茅es. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • PHI.
  • Paolo Tosti

    Aprile

    Singer: Jos茅 Carreras. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Edoardo M眉ller.
    • PHILPS.
    • 2.
  • Edvard Grieg

    March of the Trolls (Lyric Pieces, Book 5 Op.54)

    Orchestra: Malm枚 SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Grieg: Music for String Orchestra: Malmo Symphony Orchestra/Engeset.
    • Naxos.
    • 18.
  • Franz Leh谩r

    Altwiener Liebeswalzer

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Michail Jurowski.
    • Leh谩r: Overtures & Waltzes.
    • CPO.
    • 201.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Friday afternoons Op.7 (A New Year Carol)

    Choir: The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys. Performer: Sarah Cutler. Conductor: John Scott.
    • RESONUS.
    • 15.
  • Gregor Joseph Werner

    The Start of the New Year (Il Gennaro, oder im Jenner)

    Ensemble: Rheinisches Bach-Collegium.
    • CPO.
    • 1.
  • Henry Balfour Gardiner

    A Berkshire Idyll (extract)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 20.
  • Ludovico Einaudi

    Come un fiore

    Performer: Ludovico Einaudi.
    • Decca.
  • Otto Nicolai

    The Merry Wives of Windsor (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Kaleidoscope: An Orchestral Extravaganza: Mackerras, LSO.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Singet dem Herrn - alles was Odem hat (Cantata BWV.190)

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in E flat major Op.70 no.2 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Sitkovetsky Trio.
    • Beethoven: Piano Trios, Vol. 1.
    • BIS.
    • 9.
  • Emmerich K谩lm谩n

    Grafin Mariza (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
    • Happy New Year - Die Operettengala Aus Dresden.
    • DG.
    • 1.

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