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Saturday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Breakfast. Great pieces, great performances - and a few surprises!

2 hours

Last on

Sat 6 Nov 2010 07:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K525, IV Rondo: Allegro

    Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Performer: Herbert von Karajan

    • DG 4000342.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin - Nocturne in E flat major, Op 55, No. 2

    Arranger: Saint Saens Performer: Philippe Graffin (violin) Performer: Pascal Devoyon (piano)

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    O clap your hands

    Performer: Motet for chorus and orchestra Performer: Corydon Singers Performer: Corydon Orchestra Performer: Matthew Best (conductor)

    • Hyperion CDS44322.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 2 in C Major

    Performer: Sinfonia Finlandia Jyvaskyla Performer: Patrick Gallois (conductor)

    • Naxos 8503400.
  • Edvard Grieg

    I Hjemmet (In my native land) + Scherzo, from Lyric Pieces, Op. 43 No. 3, Opus 54 No.5

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

    • Virgin Classics VC 7593002.
  • Giovanni Picchi

    Canzon No. 17 a 8 [transposed down a 4th]

    Performer: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts

    • Hyperion CDH55320.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Bacchanale, from Samson and Delilah

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)

    • EMI 50999 6 31816 2 3.
  • Charles Gounod

    Je veux vivre dans ce reve - Juliette

    Performer: Mirella Freni (Juliette, soprano) Performer: Orchestra of the Th茅芒tre National de l'Op茅ra de Paris Performer: Alain Lombard (conductor)

    • EMI 724356529021.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Waltz for six hands

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Performer: Vovka Ashkenazy (piano) Performer: Dody Ashkenazy (piano)

    • Decca 4702912.
  • Nicola Matteis

    Diverse bizzarie sopra la Vecchia Sarabanda o pur Ciaccona

    Performer: Daniel Hope (violin) Performer: Continuo comprised of Soloists from the Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    • DG 4778094.
  • Hamish MacCunn

    Land of the mountain and the flood

    Performer: 主播大秀 Scottish Symphony Orchestra Performer: Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

    • Hyperion CDA66815.
  • Samuel Sebastian Wesley

    Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace

    Performer: Winchester College Chapel Choir Performer: Malcom Archer (director) Performer: Paul Provost (organ)

    • Regent REGCD331.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gavottes 1 & 2 from Suite No. 1, BWV 1066

    Performer: English Baroque Soloists Performer: John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • Erato ECD 88048.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Overture, Il barbiere di Siviglia

    Performer: Budapest Symphony Orchestra Performer: Adam Fischer (conductor)

    • White Label HRC 052.
  • Daniel Speer

    Sonata a 3 and Gigue for 2 violins, trombone, basso continuo

    Performer: Christian Lindberg (trombone 鈥 sackbut) Performer: Members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra

    • BIS CD 1688.
  • Bohuslav Martin暖

    Variations on a Theme of Rossini, H290 in D major

    Performer: Paul Watkins (cello) Performer: Huw Watkins (piano)

    • Chandos 10602.

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