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Start your weekend the Radio 3 way, with Saturday Breakfast

Join Elizabeth Alker to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical music.

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Sat 6 Apr 2024 06:30
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Music Played

  • Frederick Delius

    Fennimore and Gerda (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Vaughan Williams/Walton/Delius.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 9.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in B flat major, Op.76 No.4 "Sunrise" (2nd mvt: Adagio)

    Ensemble: Alban Berg Quartett.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Edward MacDowell

    To a Wild Rose

    Performer: James Barbagallo.
    • MARCO POLO : 8.223631.
    • MARCO POLO.
    • 1.

  • Edward MacDowell

    To a Water Lily

    Performer: James Barbagallo.
    • MARCO POLO : 8.223631.
    • MARCO POLO.
    • 6.

  • Edward MacDowell

    With Sweet Lavender (New England Idyls, Op 62)

    Performer: James Barbagallo.
    • MARCO POLO : 8.223631.
    • MARCO POLO.
    • 26.

  • Dominique Phinot

    Iam Non Dicam

    Ensemble: Ensemble Villancico.
    • The Källunge Codex 1622.
    • Sjelvar Records.
    • 14.

  • Vincent Youmans

    Tahiti Trot (Tea for Two)

    Orchestrator: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Mazurka in G sharp minor, Op 33 No 1

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 22.

  • Gustav Holst

    Venus, the Bringer of Peace (The Planets, Op 32)

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Holst: Orchestral Works, Volume 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.

  • Leo Robinson

    The Cormorant

    Performer: Leo Robinson.
    • Prah.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio Sonata in B flat major, Op.1 No.5

    Ensemble: Ensemble Augelletti.
    • Barn Cottage Records.

  • Zoltán Kodály

    Viennese Musical Clock; The Entrance of the Emperor & his court [Hary Janos - suite, Op.35a]

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Phillips.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Listen to the Lambs

    Choir: VocalEssence. Singer: Steve Burger. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • Got the Saint Louis Blues.
    • Clarion.
    • 005.

  • Rebecca Clarke

    Passacaglia on an Old English Tune

    Performer: Philip Dukes. Performer: Sophia Rahman.
    • Rebecca Clarke: Violin Sonata, Dumka.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G major, K.525, 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Bruno Weil.
    • Mozart: Overtures/Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Tafelmusik/Weil.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Intermezzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Bis.

  • Feim Ibrahimi

    Tokate

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Guild.

  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Humoreske

    Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • French Music for Winds.
    • WARNER.
    • 7.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Gloria in excelsis Deo (Gloria)

    Choir: Â鶹Éç Singers. Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Chandos.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Valse Mauresque from 4 Characteristic Waltzes, Op.22

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, orchestral works.
    • MARCO POLO.
    • 9.

  • Erland Cooper

    Holm Sound

    Performer: Erland Cooper.
    • PHASES.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ombra mai fu (Serse)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • Handel: Ombra mai fu: Andreas Scholl.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 7.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Tango No.1 [Tango Suite]

    Performer: Peter Katona. Performer: Zoltán Katona.
    • Solo Musica.

  • Franz von Suppè

    Leichte Kavallerie (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Suppe: Overtures and marches: Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Jarvi.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Rachel Portman

    Flight

    Performer: Niklas Liepe. Orchestra: WDR Funkhausorchester. Conductor: Erina Yashima.
    • Sony.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Little Suite for Brass Band no.1 Op.80

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Elgar Howarth.
    • SONY.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in E flat major, Op 33 No 1

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Alfred Brendel plays, vol.4.
    • Vox Box.
    • 9.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Happiness (Waltz Suite, Op 110)

    Conductor: Theodore Kuchar. Orchestra: National Orchestra of Ukraine.
    • Prokofiev: The Complete Symphonies And Concertos.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.

  • Claude Debussy

    Fêtes (Nocturnes)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.

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