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Saturday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, with the final week of the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including requests for your favourite works and pieces that you would like to hear.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 27 Dec 2014 07:00

Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Barber of Seville (Overture)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Rossini: 10 Overtures - Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C major, Op 54 No 2 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Sacconi Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Opus 54.
    • Sacconi Records.
    • 005.
  • Richard Strauss

    4 Lieder (Op.27) [1894], no.4; Morgen

    Performer: Helmut Deutsch. Singer: Jonas Kaufmann.
    • Richard Strauss: Lieder: Janoas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Eug猫ne Ysa每e

    Caprice after Saint-Sa毛ns' "Etude en forme de valse Op.52 no.6"

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Decca.
  • Crist贸bal de Morales

    Pastores, dicite, quidnam vidistis?

    • In natali Domini - Christmas in Spain and the Americas in the 16th Century.
    • Accent.
    • 13.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90, 'Italian' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos.3 & 4: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Harnoncourt.
    • Teldec.
    • 5.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    La Poule from Suite in G

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Rameau, Nouvelles Suites.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 17.
  • Claude Debussy

    Des Pas sur la Neige arr. Snell

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Elgar Howarth.
    • CD164.
    • DOYEN.
    • 12.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wie lieblich klingt es in den Ohren - wer Jesu namen (Aria) from Cantata no. 133

    Singer: Katherine Fuge. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Cantatas.
    • SDG.
    • 25.
  • Derek Bourgeois

    Trombone Concerto; 3rd movement Presto

    Conductor: Grant Llewellyn. Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Performer: Christian Lindberg.
    • British Trombone Concertos.
    • Bis.
    • 10.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major Op.57

    Performer: Louis Lortie.
    • Chandos.
  • Franz Leh谩r

    Gr眉tzner Waltz

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Michail Jurowski.
    • Lehar: Overtures & Waltzes: Michail Jurowski.
    • CPO.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Fidicinium sacro-profanum (Sonata No 4 in G minor)

    Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.
    • Biber: Sacro-Profanum: The Purcell Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no. 5 (D.485) in B flat major, 4th movement; Allegro vivace

    Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington. Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Hannsler.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Six Ecossaises, WoO 83

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Philips.
  • Richard Rodgers

    Oklahoma! (Overture)

    Orchestra: Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Conductor: John Mauceri.

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