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Start the weekend with classical music

Martin Handley with a Breakfast melange of classical music, folk, found sounds and the odd Unclassified track. Start your weekend right.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 7 Oct 2023 07:00

Music Played

  • Jules Massenet

    Overture: Le Roi de Lahore

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Guy B茅art

    Les souliers

    Singer: Guy B茅art.
    • Sony.
  • Bechara El-Khoury

    Danse des Aigles

    Orchestra: Orchestre Colonne. Conductor: Pierre Dervaux.
    • Naxos.
  • Barbara

    L'aigle noir

    Singer: Barbara.
    • Philips.
  • Florence Price

    Barcarolle

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Florence Price Piano Music.
    • Guild Music.
    • 23.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Octet in E flat major Op.20 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Gringolts Quartet. Ensemble: Meta4.
    • Felix Mendelssohn & Enescu: Octets.
    • BIS.
    • 103.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    String Sextet in A major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Wiener Streichsextett.
    • Pan Classics:.
  • William Grant Still

    Serenade

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Avlana Eisenberg.
    • Still: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 701.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Concerto in D minor, Wq 22 - iii. Allegro di molto

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Ensemble: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • C. P. E. Bach: Flute Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sinfonia no.11 in G minor BWV.797 arr. for voices

    Music Arranger: Jonathan Rathbone. Ensemble: The Swingle Singers.
    • Virgin.
  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin - Prelude to Act III

    Orchestra: Bayreuther Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Lovro von Mata膷i膰.
    • ORFEO.
  • John Ireland

    Satirycon Overture

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque no.1 in E major

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 16.
  • Juan del Encina

    El Fin Del Al-Andalus, 1492 (2 de Enero) La Conquista de Granada: Villancico "Levanta pascual que Grenada es tomada"

    Ensemble: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Jose Eliseu

    Balada de Coimbra

    Performer: Miguel Drago. Performer: Luis Carlos Santos.
    • FADO AO CENTO.
  • Carlos de Seixas

    Harpsichord Concerto in A major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Andreas Staier. Orchestra: Orquestra Barroca Casa da M煤sica.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Alain Oulman

    Maria Lisboa

    Singer: Mariza.
    • Parlophone Portugal.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Brazileira (Scaramouche)

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Andee Birkett. Performer: Zeynep Ozsuca-Rattle. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Decca Classics.
  • M. Camargo Guarnieri

    Danza Brasiliera

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Sony.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet in C major K.515 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Quatuor 脡b猫ne. Ensemble: Antoine Tamestit.
    • Mozart: String Quintets K. 515 & 516.
    • ERATO.
    • 4.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Dolce Cantavi

    Performer: TENET.
    • The Secret Lovers.
    • Avie.
    • 13.
  • Alan Simmons

    Lost in Space

    Performer: Harry Baker. Music Arranger: Harry Baker. Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Nicholas Chalmers.
  • Gra偶yna Bacewicz

    Overture for orchestra

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Grazyna Bacewicz: Piano Concerto; Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra; Overtur.
    • Ondine.
    • 1.

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