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Sunday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show featuring listener requests and at 8.55am, "Power of Three" - the next instalment of a 70-part daily series of pioneering sounds from the 91热爆 Third Programme and Radio 3 archives.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 23 Oct 2016 07:00

Music Played

  • Hubert Parry

    I was glad

    Choir: Choir of the King鈥檚 Consort. Ensemble: King's Consort. Conductor: Robert King.
    • Stanford/Parry: I was glad: The King's Consort/Robert King.
    • Vivat.
    • 3.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    September from Das Jahr

    Performer: Liana 葮erbescu.
    • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Klavierwerke vol.1.
    • CPO.
    • 009.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    November from Das Jahr

    Performer: Liana 葮erbescu.
    • Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Klavierwerke vol.1.
    • CPO.
    • 011.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Il cuccu (The Birds)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto in A minor; 1st Movement

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Hyperion.
    • CDA68112.
  • Nitin Sawhney

    Transition 6

    Performer: H茅l猫ne Grimaud.
    • DG.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    In The Mists: No. 1

    Performer: H茅l猫ne Grimaud.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Concerto for violin and orchestra (Op.35) ..., 3rd mvt

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Eivind Gullberg Jensen.
    • Tchaikovsky/Nielsen: Violin Concertos: Vilde Frang.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • George Butterworth

    Roving in the dew (11 Folk-songs from Sussex)

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • George Butterworth, Songs from A Shropshire Lad: Williams / Burnside.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.
  • Ned Rorem

    Early in the morning

    Singer: Susan Graham. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • The Art of Susan Graham.
    • Erato.
    • 3.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Pr茅lude from Na茂s: Overture; Musette tendre; Rigaudons I/II

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Alberto Machavel

    Tira Hikhumbula Mondlane

    Choir: Kava Unga Heti.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Le Carnaval des animaux, no.1; Introduction et marche royale du lion

    Performer: Andr茅 Previn. Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 400016-2.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Little Birds

    Choir: Elora Festival Singers. Performer: Leslie De'Ath. Conductor: Noel Edison.
    • NAXOS.
    • 8559677.
  • Arthur Honegger

    Pacific 231

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Sony.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No.24 in F sharp major, Op.78

    Performer: Louis Lortie.
    • Louis Lortie plays Beethoven, Complete Piano Sonatas.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 006.
  • Fats Waller

    Honeysuckle Rose (脿 la Bach, Beethoven, Brahms & Waller)

    • LIVING ERA.
    • CDAJS2016.

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  • Sun 23 Oct 2016 07:00

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