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Sunday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating the Baroque Spring season with the Breakfast Forty-Eight and the Musical Map of Britain.

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating the Baroque Spring season. Featuring Breakfast Forty-Eight - a daily morning dose of the 48 Preludes and Fugues of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. As part of Breakfast's Musical Map of Britain, running throughout 2013, Breakfast will be asking listeners to highlight Baroque connections to their area of the UK.
BBC Radio 3's Baroque Spring is a month long season of music, drama and comedy dedicated to shedding new light on the Baroque era.

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Sun 17 Mar 201307:00
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Music Played

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    IV. A reel from 4 Irish Dances (arranged Grainger)

    Performer: Piers Lane (piano)

    • HELIOS CDH55454.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Firebird Suite: Berceuse & Finale

    Performer: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Performer: Conducted by Paavo Jarvi

    • TELARC CD80587.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Come in ciel benigna stella from Apollo e Dafne, HWV 122

    Performer: Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) Performer: La Risonanza Performer: Directed by Fabio Bonizzoni

    • GLOSSA GCD921527.

  • Joseph Haydn

    II. Andante from Symphony 94 – Surprise

    Performer: Philharmonia Hungarica Performer: Conducted by Antal Dorati

    • LONDON 4485312.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no. 2 in F minor: III Allegro Vivace

    Performer: Martha Argerich Performer: Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal Performer: Conducted by Charles Dutoit

    • EMI 5456822.

  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de Matin (arranged Brodsky Quartet)

    Performer: Brodsky Quartet

    • CHANDOS CHAN10708.

  • Anon.

    Marry Me Now (arranged Herbert Hughes); The Tinker's Daughter (arranged Moeran); The Lost

    Performer: Ailish Tynan (soprano) Performer: Iain Burnside (piano)

    • SIGNUM SIGCD239.

  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Sonata No 2 for Violin and Keyboard

    Performer: Les Dominos

    • RICERCAR RIC310.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    1. Allegro from Concerto in G minor RV.531 for 2 Cellos and orchestra

    Performer: Yo-Yo Ma and Jonathan Marsden (Baroque Cellos) Performer: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Performer: Conducted by Ton Koopman

    • SONY CLASSICAL S2K92857.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Scottish Dances

    Performer: The Philharmonia Performer: Conducted by Bryden Thomas

    • CHANDOS CHAN8867.

  • Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev

    St Matthew Passion: Chorus – Come let us sing a holy lament to Christ

    Performer: Choir of the State Tretyakov Gallery Performer: Tchaikovsky Great Symphony Orchestra Performer: Conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev

    • RELIEF CR991094.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue No. 14 in F sharp minor

    Performer: Davitt Moroney

    • Harmonia Mundi HMC 90128588.

  • Charles Gounod

    St Cecilia Mass: Benedictus

    Performer: Barbara Hendricks Performer: Laurence Dale Performer: Jean-Philippe Lafont Performer: Choeur de Radio-France Performer: Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique Performer: Georges Prêtre

    • HMV HMV5740552.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Joyeuse March

    Performer: BBC Philharmonic Performer: Conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier

    • CHANDOS CHAN9765.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Tosca: Vissi d'arte

    Performer: Angela Gheorghiu Performer: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

    • EMI 5577062.

  • Franz Schubert

    IV. Presto Vivace from Symphony No. 3 in D

    Performer: English Sinfonia Performer: Sir Charles Groves

    • IMP PCD967.

  • John Field

    Nocturne No. 7

    Performer: Benjamin Frith (piano)

    • NAXOS 8550761.

Broadcast

  • Sun 17 Mar 201307:00
    BBC Radio 3