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Saturday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with the Best of British Music Playlist and Georgian Gems. Plus requests for amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring Handel at half-past eight and Georgian Gems, compiled from listener requests. Also, including the Best of British music Playlist and your requests for amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 12 Apr 2014 07:00

Music Played

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo and Juliet - ballet Op.64

    Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Performer: London S O..
    • LSO LIVE.
    • LSO-0682.
  • Feodor Chalipani & Unnamed orchestra

    Song of the Volga boatmen (E' ukhnem)

    • CONIFER.
    • CDHD-226.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Canto de los remeros del Volga for piano

    Performer: Manuel Beselga.
    • BIS.
    • BISCD 773.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Christ rising again for 5 voices

    Performer: Stephen Rice. Performer: Brabant Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.
    • CDA 67695.
  • John Dowland

    The King of Denmark his galliard (The battle galliard) for viols and lute [Lachrimae, 1604]

    Performer: Fretwork.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • VC& 91117-2.
  • John Dowland

    The Earl of Essex his galliard vers. for 5 viols & lute

    Performer: Fretwork.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • VC& 91117-2.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Concerto for violin, horn and orchestra [1927]

    Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez. Performer: Richard Watkins. Performer: Sophie Langdon. Performer: 成人快手 Philharmonic.
    • CHANDOS.
    • CHAN-9449.
  • Nicola Porpora

    La Semiramide riconosciuta - opera in 3 acts

    Performer: Franco Fagioli. Performer: Riccardo Minasi. Performer: Il Pomo d鈥橭ro.
    • NAIVE.
    • V 5333.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Concerto no. 2 in C minor Op.18 for piano and orchestra

    Conductor: Michael Francis. Performer: Valentina Lisitsa. Performer: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • DECCA.
    • 478 4890.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Admeto, re di Tessaglia - opera in 3 acts

    Performer: Lars Ulrik Mortensen. Performer: European Baroque Orchestra.
    • ERP.
    • 6212.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    La Clemenza di Tito - opera in 2 acts K.621

    Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Performer: English Baroque Soloists.
    • ARCHIV.
    • 431-806-2.
  • Roger Quilter

    Where the rainbow ends - suite from the incidental music

    Conductor: Richard Hickox. Performer: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • CDC.
    • 7 49933 2.
  • Umberto Giordano

    Andrea Chenier - opera in 4 acts

    Conductor: Riccardo Chailly. Performer: Montserrat Caball茅. Performer: National Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • DECCA.
    • 421 892-2.
  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus D.935, Op.142 for piano

    Performer: Katharina Wolpe.
    • SYMPOSIUM.
    • 1213.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Pelleas et Melisande - suite Op.80

    Conductor: Jean Fournet. Performer: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • NAXOS.
    • 8.573034.
  • Thomas Arne

    Overture no. 6 in B flat major

    Conductor: Christopher Hogwood. Performer: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • L'OISEAU-LYRE.
    • 475 9117.
  • Cole Porter

    Gay divorce - musical

    Performer: Richard Tauber.
    • VIENNA.
    • 28037.

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