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Sunday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 7 Aug 2016 07:00

Music Played

  • Thomas Lupo

    Fantasia a6 No.9

    Ensemble: English Fantasie.
    • Lupo: Consort Music - The English Fantasy.
    • ASV.
    • 23.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Fair Melusina Op.32

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mendelssohn: Overtures: LSO/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Erik Satie

    Gymnop茅die no.1 in D major

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Satie: Avant-Dernieres Pensees.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.
  • Manuel Cardoso

    Non mortui 脿 6

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Singer: Grace Davidson. Singer: Samuel Evans. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Santiago a cappella; Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 9.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Souvenir de Florence (Op.70) arr. for str orchestra, 1st mvt; Allegro con spirito

    Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Iona Brown.
    • Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Gustav Holst

    Fantasia on the Dargason (Suite in F major for military band, Op 28 No 2)

    Ensemble: Cleveland Symphonic Winds. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • Telarc.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata in D major, BWV.912

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • J. S. Bach: Piano Music.
    • Hungatron.
    • 9.
  • Liza Lehmann

    The Yellowhammer

    Singer: Janice Watson. Performer: Steuart Bedford.
    • COLLINS.
    • 10.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Bourr茅e fantasque

    Orchestrator: Felix Mottl. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chabrier: Orchestral Works: Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C major, Op 53, 'Waldstein' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Beethoven Piano Sonatas: 'Moonlight' 'Pathetique' 'Waldstein' Steven Osborne pia.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Cath & Phil Tyler

    Yellowhammer

    Performer: Cath & Phil Tyler.
    • Dumb Supper.
    • FORTE.
    • 6.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Sicut Cervus / Sitivit Anima Mea - motet for 4 voices

    Ensemble: New York Polyphony.
    • Roma 脝terna.
    • BIS.
    • 21.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    'Gente, gente, all鈥檃rmi, all鈥檃rmi' (Le Nozze di Figaro, end of Act IV)

    Singer: Sir Thomas Allen. Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DECCA.
    • 10.
  • Franz Schubert

    Overture in C minor, D 8a

    Ensemble: Escher String Quartet.
    • MUSIC@MENLOLIVE.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    3 Mazurkas for piano (Op.59); no.2 in A flat major

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Argerich Plays Chopin.
    • DG.
    • 11.

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