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Saturday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents music to discover, rediscover and lift the spirits.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 16 Jan 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Tahiti Trot

    Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Performer: Riccardo Chailly (organ)

    • DECCA 433702.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Oh Clap your Hands

    Performer: Winchester Cathedral Choir Performer: David Hill (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA67116.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude Op 23/4 in D major

    Performer: Simon Trpceski (piano)

    • EMI57943.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Overture to Beatrice and Benedict

    Performer: Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal Performer: Charles Dutoit (conductor)

    • DECCA 452480.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto in A Minor BWV 1041

    Performer: Monica Huggett (violin) Performer: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Performer: Ton Koopman (conductor)

    • ERATO16165.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante defunte

    Performer: Orchestre de l’Opera national de Lyon Performer: Kent Nagano (conducotor)

    • ERATO14331.
  • Hahn

    2 songs from Venezia

    Performer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Performer: Graham Johnson (piano)

    • HYPERION55217.
  • Percy Grainger

    Molly on the Shore

    Performer: City of London Sinfonia Performer: Richard Hickox

    • CHANDOS CHAN10568.
  • Rodgers

    Ten Cents a Dance

    Performer: Ella Fitzgerald

    • VEUVE821580.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto in F: 'Cuckoo and Nightingale'

    Performer: Simon Preston (organ) Performer: English Concert Performer: Trevor Pinnock (director)

    • ARCHIV 419634.
  • Jules Massenet

    J'ai verse le poison from cleopatre

    Performer: Renee Fleming (soprano) Performer: Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre Performer: Valery Gergiev (conductor)

    • DECCA 475807.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet Op 33/5 – last mvt

    Performer: Quatuor Mosaiques

    • NAIVE8801.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Choral Fantasy Op 80

    Performer: Robert Levin (fortepiano) Performer: Monteverdi Choir Performer: Orchestre revolutionnaire et romantique Performer: John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 447771.

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  • Sat 16 Jan 2010 07:00

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