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Lazy classical Sunday

Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of Sunday morning. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours

Last on

Sun 24 Mar 2024 07:00

Music Played

  • Jules Massenet

    Meditation (Thais)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Le Boeuf sur le Toit.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 2.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in B flat major Kk.66

    Performer: Scott Ross.
    • Warner.
  • Maurice Ravel

    À la manière de Borodine

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.
  • Maurice Ravel

    À la manière de Chabrier

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.
  • George Gershwin

    Lullaby

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Granville Bantock

    The Sea Reivers (2 Hebridean Sea Poems)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Bantock: Celtic & Hebridean Symphonies/ The Witch of Atlas.
    • HYPERION.
    • 14.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E major 'Spring' (The Four Seasons)

    Performer: Enrico Onofri. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Teldec.
  • ±ΚΓ©°ω΄Η³ΩΎ±²Τ

    Beata Viscera II

    Performer: Apollo5.
    • VCM Records.
  • Nigel Hess

    Dance of the Eagle (The Old Man of Lochnagar - suite)

    Ensemble: Central Band of the Royal Air Force. Conductor: Nigel Hess.
    • Chandos.
  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    3 Nocturnes Op.9 for piano: no.1 in B flat minor

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Chopin: Nocturnes.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.8 in F major Op.93 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Paavo JΓ€rvi.
    • RCA.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wir setzen uns mit TrΓ€nen nieder (St. Matthew Passion)

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Bach: St. Matthew Passion.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 39.
  • Florence Price

    Piano Quintet in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • American Quintets.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • MarΓ­a MalibrΓ‘n

    Rataplan

    Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Performer: Benjamin Forster. Orchestra: Orchestra La Scintilla. Conductor: ÁdÑm Fischer.
    • Maria.
    • Decca.
    • 10.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No.23 in A (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Karl Bohm.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 19.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.
  • Spiritual

    Deep River

    Singer: Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha. Performer: Anna Blackmur. Performer: Simon Lepper.
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ recording.
  • Maurice Jarre

    Building The Barn (Witness)

    Ensemble: Ensemble. Conductor: Maurice Jarre.
    • Witness (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Varese.
    • 5.
  • Claude Debussy

    La danse de Puck (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Debussy: Preludes I, L'Isle Joyeuse; Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 11.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Bergamasca (Ancient Airs and Dances)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia 21. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs & Dances.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.

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