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Breakfast - reflecting on BBC Legends

Martin Handley
Breakfast

Each weekend morning between 29th September and 4th November Breakfast will feature tracks from the BBC Legends series.

    Saturday 29th September


    BACH
    Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV903
    Wilhelm Kempf (piano)
    BBCL 4045-2 T1-2

    Recorded live at a Queen Elizabeth Hall recital in 1969

      Sunday 30th September


      GABRIELI, arr. STOKOWSKI
      Sonata pian e forte. Alla quarta bassa, from Sacrae symphoniae (Adagio)
      London Symphony Orchestra
      Leopold Stokowski (conductor)
      BBCL 4059-2 T1

      Recorded Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 22 August 1961

        Saturday 6th October


        MAHLER
        Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder)
        Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
        Karl Engel (piano)
        BBCL 4035-2 TRACK 16

        Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, London on 16th February 1970

        WALTON
        Partita for Orchestra
        Halle Orchestra
        Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)
        BBCL 4013-2 Tracks 2- 4

        Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall on 8th August 1969

          Sunday 7th October


          BEETHOVEN
          Leonore Overture no.3
          BBC Symphony Orchestra
          Rudolf Kempe (conductor)
          BBCL 4056-2 TRACK 1

          Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, 27th August 1975

          STRAUSS
          Prelude for String Sextet from Capriccio, op.85
          Amadeus Quartet
          Cecil Aronowitz, viola
          William Pleeth, cello
          BBCL 4061-2 TRACK 8

          Recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on 4th May 1971

            Saturday 13th October


            CHOPIN
            Nocturne in Eb major Op. 9 no. 2
            Shura Cherkassky (piano)
            BBCL 4057-2 Track 1

            Recorded at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 29 May 1980

            J. STRAUSS
            Overture to Die Fledermaus
            Halle Orchestra
            Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)
            BBCL 4038-2 Track 5

            Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 9 August 1969

              Sunday 14th October


              LILY BOULANGER
              Psalm 24
              BBC Chorus
              BBC Symphony Orchestra
              Nadia Boulanger (conductor)
              BBCL 4026-2 Track 1

              Recorded at Fairfield Hall, Croydon, 30 October 1968 

                Saturday 20th October


                SCHUBERT
                Der blinde Knabe, D833
                Totengraber-Weise, D869
                Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano
                Paul Hamburger, piano
                BBC L 4049-2 Tr 13-14

                Recorded in the BBC Studios, London, 25 April 1968

                  Sunday 21st October


                   BRITTEN
                  War Requiem: Agnus Dei
                  Peter Pears (tenor)
                  New Philharmonia Chorus
                  New Philharmonia Orchestra
                  Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
                  BBC LEGENDS BBCL 4046-2 Tr 15

                  Recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 6 April 1969

                    Saturday 27th October

                    Details to follow

                      Sunday 28th October

                      Details to follow

                        Saturday 3rd November


                        PROKOFIEV
                        The Love for 3 Oranges - Symphonic Suite
                        BBC Symphony Orchestra
                        Rudolf Kempe (conductor)
                        BBCL 4056-2 Tr 2-7

                          Sunday 4th November


                          SCHUBERT
                          Moment Musical in C major, D780
                          Sviatoslav Richter, piano
                          BBCL 4010-2 Tr 12

                          MAHLER
                          Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grunen Wald
                          Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
                          Karl Engel, piano
                          BBCL 4035-2 Tr 10

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