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Sunday - Martin Handley

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

2 hours

Last on

Sun 23 Apr 2023 07:00

Music Played

  • Florence Price

    Adoration

    Music Arranger: Elaine Fine. Performer: Randall Goosby. Performer: Zhu Wang.
    • Decca.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    You spotted snakes (A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61)

    Singer: Ceri-lyn Cissone. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • LSO LIVE.
    • 6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for 4 keyboards in A minor BWV.1065

    Performer: Lars Ulrik Mortensen. Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Performer: Marieke Spaans. Performer: Marcus Mohlin. Orchestra: Concerto Copenhagen. Director: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
    • Bach Harpsichord Concertos Vol 3.
    • CPO.
    • 7.
  • Ernst David Wagner

    Kol Nidrei

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.
    • A Golden Cello Decade.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.
  • Patrick Hawes

    St. George and The Dragon

    Ensemble: National Youth Harp Orchestra. Conductor: Luisa-Maria Cordell.
    • St. George & The Dragon.
    • The Sound Corporation.
    • 1.
  • Arnold Bax

    Morning song 'Maytime in Sussex'

    Performer: Ashley Wass. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Bax: Winter Legends: Ashley Wass, Bournemouth SO, James Judd.
    • NAXOS.
    • 5.
  • Roman Hoffstetter

    Serenade

    Music Arranger: Albert Victor Rieu. Performer: Andr茅 Rieu. Orchestra: Maastrichts Salon Orkest.
    • La Belle Epoque.
    • Universal Music.
    • 6.
  • Anon.

    Heigh Ho, the Wind and the Rain (Twelfth Night)

    Singer: Alfred Deller.
    • The Voice of Alfred Deller.
    • Heritage Records.
    • 10.
  • Roger Quilter

    Blow, blow, thou winter wind (3 Shakespeare Songs)

    Lyricist: William Shakespeare. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Silent Noon.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The Wolf (Peter and the Wolf)

    Narrator: Dame Edna Everage. Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Lanchbery.
    • PROKOFIEV: Peter and the Wolf / BRITTEN: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.
  • Kenneth J. Alford

    The Standard of St. George

    Ensemble: The Band of the Coldstream Guards. Conductor: Major Douglas Pope.
    • Marching with the Coldstream Guards.
    • Radio Tower Records.
    • 7.
  • William Grant Still

    The Sentimental One (Lyric Quartet)

    Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol 3.
    • Azica.
    • 4.
  • Philip van Wilder

    Pater Noster

    Ensemble: Gallicantus. Conductor: Gabriel Crouch.
    • Queen Mary's Big Belly.
    • Signum.
    • 1.
  • Mzilikazi Khumalo

    Father God Almighty (5 African Songs)

    Orchestrator: P茅ter Louis van Dijk. Orchestra: SABC National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Cock.
    • Marco Polo.
  • Joseph Shabalala

    Time is Money

    Choir: Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
    • Warner.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in A flat major Op.46 no.3

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Brahms: Hungarian Dances &Dvorak: Slavonic Dances: Haitink.
    • Philips.
    • 13.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks (Overture)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • George Gershwin

    Fascinating Rhythm

    Performer: Wayne Marshall.
    • A Gershwin Songbook & Improvisations.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • 4.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Dance of the Shapes (The Tempest Op.109)

    Orchestra: Royal Danish Orchestra. Conductor: Okko Kamu.
    • Sibelius: The Tempest, Op. 109 (Live).
    • Naxos.
    • 117.

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  • Sun 23 Apr 2023 07:00

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