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Classical lie-in

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of Sunday morning. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours

Last on

Sun 31 Mar 2024 07:00

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no.8 in C Minor Op.13 'Path茅tique' (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Favourite Piano Sonatas.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.
  • Heinrich Marschner

    Der Vampyr (overture)

    Orchestra: WDR Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Helmuth Froschauer.
    • CAPRICCIO.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Rubezahl (M盲rchenbilder Op.3)

    Performer: Ilona Prunyi.
    • Korngold: Piano Works.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Easter Oratorio BWV.249 (Adagio & Come, hasten and run)

    Singer: James Gilchrist. Singer: Peter Harvey. Orchestra: Retrospect Ensemble. Conductor: Matthew Halls.
    • Easter & Ascension Oratorios.
    • Linn Records.
    • 002.
  • Christian Garrick

    Nightingale

    Ensemble: The Budapest Cafe Orchestra.
    • Flying Blue Whale Records.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Tritsch-Tratsch Polka Op.214

    Music Arranger: Georges Cziffra. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • Fantasia.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Sunday Morning (4 Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Britten: Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra; Bournemouth Symph, Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 35.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Coelos ascendit hodie

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Director: Stephen Cleobury.
    • A Year at King's: Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 15.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Bartered Bride (Overture)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Smetana: The Bartered Bride.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Francisco T谩rrega

    Recuerdos de la Alhambra

    Performer: John Williams.
    • Spanish Guitar Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.
  • Michael Tippett

    Concerto for Double String Orchestra (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • British Composers: Tippett.
    • EMI.
    • 16.
  • Charles Gounod

    Meditation on Bach's Prelude no.1 BWV.846 'Ave Maria'

    Singer: Birgit Nilsson. Performer: 脜ke Lev茅n.
    • Land of the Midnight Sun.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 16.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Bella figlia dell'amore (Rigoletto)

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Singer: Huguette Tourangeau. Singer: Joan Sutherland. Singer: Sherrill Milnes. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Verdi: Rigoletto.
    • Decca.
    • 11.
  • Michael Flanders and Donald Swann

    The Slow Train

    Ensemble: Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.
    • EMI.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Les entretiens de la belle et de la b锚te (Ma m猫re l'oye)

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que.
    • Bizet, Ravel, Faure: Katia & Marielle Labeque.
    • Philips.
    • 22.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    There is beauty in the bellow of the blast (The Mikado)

    Singer: Felicity Palmer. Singer: Eric Idle. Choir: English National Opera Chorus. Orchestra: The English National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Robinson.
    • SHOWTIME.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Exaudi orationem meam (Symphony of Psalms)

    Choir: Festival Singers of Canada. Orchestra: CBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Igor Stravinsky.
    • Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky - Symphonies and Concertos.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.
  • C茅sar Franck

    Les Eolides

    Conductor: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Handley.
    • 大象传媒 recording.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Tutto il Mondo e burla (Falstaff)

    Singer: Geraint Evans. Choir: Coro della RCA Italiana. Orchestra: Orchestra della RCA Italiana. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Decca.

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