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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

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Sun 24 Sep 2017 07:00

Music Played

  • Dag Wir茅n

    Serenade in C major Op.11 (Preludium)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Greig, Sibelius, Nielsen, Wiren: ASMIF, Marriner.
    • Argo.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Overture in C major Op.24

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mendelssohn: Overtures: LSO/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux aurumque

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Choir: Laudibus. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Eric Whitacre, Light & Gold.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Prelude and Fugue in F sharp major

    Performer: Liana 葮erbescu.
    • CPO.
  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    The Meeting

    Performer: Daniel Ottensamer. Performer: Ernst Ottensamer. Ensemble: Wiener Virtuosen.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Funeral Music (Snefrid)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Carl Nielsen: Orchestral music: Danish National Symphony Orch/Dausgaard.
    • Dacapo.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Schlummert ein (Cantata No 82)

    Singer: David Daniels. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Harry Bicket.
    • David Daniels: The English Concert, J.S.Bach - Sacred Arias & Cantatas.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 11.
  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    8 Concert Studies, Op.40 (Prelude)

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Kapustin: Piano music: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Richard Wagner

    Huldigungsmarsch for military band

    Conductor: Marek Janowski. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Wagner: Preludes and Orchestral works: Marek Janowski.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 3.
  • Duke Ellington

    Sophisticated Lady

    Music Arranger: Luther Henderson. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • American Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.
  • Pauline Hall

    Suite for wind quintet (Pastorale)

    Ensemble: The Bergen Wind Quintet.
    • SIMAX.
    • 12.
  • Sverre Bergh

    Norwegian Dance No.2 "Gamel-Holin" (Old Holin)

    Performer: H氓vard Gimse.
    • NAXOS.
    • 8.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    The Enchanted Lake

    Orchestra: State Academic Symphony Orchestra of The Russian Federation. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • MELODIYA.
    • 4.
  • Robert Schumann

    Toccata in C major Op.7

    Performer: Ivo Pogorelich.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Richard Strauss

    All' mein Gedanken, Op. 21 No. 1

    Singer: Gwyneth Jones. Performer: Geoffrey Parsons.
    • Strauss: 20 Lieder.
    • Capriccio.
    • 7.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Capriccio espagnol, Op 34

    Orchestra: Bavarian State Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • Kabalevsky: The Comedians etc, Sawallisch.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 11.

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