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Sunday - Martin Handley

Martin Handley presents Breakfast including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape and also our celebration of the Commonwealth Games. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

Martin Handley presents Breakfast including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape. Plus every day this week on Breakfast we celebrate the Commonwealth Games 2022 taking place in Birmingham, with a piece by a composer from the Commonwealth. Ranging from Africa to the Caribbean and North America, from Malta in the Mediterranean to New Zealand, we explore the rich musical heritage of the Commonwealth nations. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Sun 31 Jul 2022 07:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzona da sonar II (Sacrae symphoniae)

    Music Arranger: John Serry. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • OPENING DAY.

  • Frederick Delius

    Summer Evening

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • EMI.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major Op.57

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Late Masterpieces, Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Te Deum (Te Deum Laudamus)

    Performer: Chœur de Chambre de Namur. Performer: Millenium Orchestra. Performer: Leonardo García Alarcón.
    • Lully: Dies Irae, De Profondis & Te Deum.
    • Alpha.

  • Alan Hovhaness

    Prayer of St Gregory Op.62

    Performer: Charles Butler. Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • DELOS.

  • César Franck

    Nocturne M.85

    Singer: Elly Ameling. Performer: Rudolf Jansen.
    • DECCA.
    • 15.

  • Robert Schumann

    Waldscenen Op.82 (Vogel als Prophet)

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • Les animaux en musique (Radio Classique).
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
    • 22.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Serenade Op.31 (Pastoral)

    Singer: Allan Clayton. Performer: Richard Watkins. Ensemble: Aldeburgh Festival Strings. Conductor: Markus Däunert.
    • Linn.

  • Fiddler’s Dram

    The day we went to Bangor

    • Broadcast Twelve Super.
    • 1.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String quartet in E flat major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.
    • Mendelssohn: Felix & Fanny: Quatuor Ebene.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 6.

  • Anon.

    Galliard and Allemande

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Decca.

  • Alma Mahler-Werfel

    5 Songs (No 3, Laue Sommernacht)

    Singer: Fatma Said. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • BBC New Generation Artists recording.

  • The Brute Force Steel Band

    Mambo Jambo

    • Cook Records.
    • 1.

  • Traditional

    Ys

    Music Arranger: Alan Stivell. Performer: Alan Stivell.
    • Renaissance De La Harpe Celtique.
    • Fontana.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    The Mermaid's Song (6 Original canzonettas - set 1)

    Singer: Catherine Bott. Performer: Melvyn Tan.
    • Meridian.

  • Véronique Vella

    Fine Line

    Orchestra: Malta Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sergey Smbatyan.
    • Navona Records.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in B flat major K.269

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Mozart: Violin Concertos.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita no.3 in E major BWV.1006 (Gavotte)

    Music Arranger: Sergey Rachmaninov. Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • DG.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Symphony No.3, Op.27 - "Espansiva" -

    Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt. Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony.
    • Nielsen: Complete Symphonies; Aladdin Suite; Maskarade.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Sun 31 Jul 2022 07:00
    BBC Radio 3