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Fabulous music for the weekend

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast Show. Start your weekend right.

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Sat 25 Nov 202307:00
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Music Played

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet No 2 in D major (Nocturne)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The Best of The Academy.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.

  • Jacques Brel

    Madeleine

    Lyricist: Jacques Brel. Singer: Jacques Brel. Orchestra: François Rauber et son orchestre.
    • Les Bourgeois.
    • Universal Music Division Barclay.
    • 6.

  • Claude Debussy

    Sonata for flute, viola and harp (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kuijken Ensemble.
    • Outhere Records.

  • Françoise Hardy

    Le premier bonheur du jour

    • Un cafe a Paris.
    • Discos Cada.
    • 13.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Oboe Concerto in F major, BWV 1053R (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Gonzalo X. Ruiz. Orchestra: Portland Baroque Orchestra.
    • Avie.

  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: Cécile Licad.
    • Encores as performed by Pablo Casals: Gerhardt/Licad.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.

  • Cate Le Bon

    Oh Am Gariad

    Performer: Cate Le Bon.
    • Irony Bored.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Five variants of Dives and Lazarus

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits: London Symphony Orchestra/Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: IV. Rigaudon

    Performer: Nathalia Milstein.
    • Prokofiev / Ravel.
    • Mirare.
    • 117.

  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major D.803 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Anne Katharina Schreiber. Performer: Danusha Waskiewicz. Performer: Kristin von der Goltz. Performer: James Munro. Performer: Lorenzo Coppola. Performer: Teunis van der Zwart. Performer: Javier Zafra.
    • Schubert: Oktett.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Dance of the Cockerels (Maskarade)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Nielsen: Aladdin-Suite, Helios U.A.: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Prelude in G major, Op 28 No 3

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Chopin: 26 Preludes Scherzo NR. 2 - Martha Argerich.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 3.

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    Kapustin: 24 Preludes in Jazz Style, Op. 53: Prelude No. 3 in G Major

    • Kapustin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; 24 Preludes in Jazz Style.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, K191 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Bram van Sambeek. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Alexei Ogrintchouk.
    • Mozart, Weber & Du Puy: Bassoon Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Harold Budd & Brian Eno

    The Chill Air

    Performer: Harold Budd & Brian Eno.
    • EDITIONS EG.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures from an exhibition: 4th mvt (The Old Castle/Il vecchio castello)

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.8 in F major Op.93 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.
    • 7.

  • Leroy Anderson

    The Syncopated Clock

    Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • The Music of Leroy Anderson.
    • MERCURY.
    • 8.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore)

    Singer: Vittorio Grigolo. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Pier Giorgio Morandi.
    • Vittorio Grigolo - The Italian Tenor.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto Grosso no.11 in E major after Corelli

    Performer: David Plantier. Performer: Olivia Centurioni. Ensemble: Ensemble 415. Director: Chiara Banchini.
    • Italiane Baroque.
    • Zig-Zag Territories.
    • 18-22.

  • Owain Park

    When Love Speaks (Shakespeare Love Songs)

    Choir: The Epiphoni Consort. Director: Tim Reader.
    • Delphian.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 'Classical' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.
    • Linn.

Broadcast

  • Sat 25 Nov 202307:00
    BBC Radio 3