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Start your weekend the Radio 3 way, with Saturday Breakfast

Join Linton Stephens to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical music.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne in B flat minor, Op.9 No.1

    Performer: Claudio Arrau.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 4164402.
  • Ida Moberg

    Sunrise - Suite for Orchestra (4th mvmt, Stillness)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Gustavsson.
    • Aulin, Moberg, Andr茅e: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos Sweden - Nilento.
    • 8.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Mallorca - barcarola, arr. for 2 guitars [orig.piano Op.202]

    Music Arranger: Katona Twins. Ensemble: Katona Twins.
    • Katona Twins - Albeniz.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
    • 1.
  • Alonso Lobo

    Versa est in luctum (Liber primus missarum)

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Morales: Requiem.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 19.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Favourite Things (More Light)

    Composer: Richard Rodgers. Performer: Errollyn Wallen.
    • Errollyn.
    • AVIE.
    • 11.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No.23 in A major, K.488 (2nd mvt: Adagio)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart Momentum - 1786.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Urlicht (Symphony no.2)

    Music Arranger: Manchester Collective. Singer: Ruby Hughes. Ensemble: Manchester Collective.
    • End of My Days.
    • Bis.
    • 15.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no. 6 (BWV.1051) in B flat major

    Performer: Pavlo Beznosiuk. Performer: Sarah Cunningham. Performer: Richard Campbell. Performer: Richard Tunnicliffe. Performer: William Hunt. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Monica Huggett.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Wind Quintet, Op 43 (2nd mvt, Menuet)

    Performer: James Galway. Performer: Bjorn Carl Nielsen. Performer: Niels Thomsen. Performer: Jens Tofte-Hansen. Performer: Bj枚rn Fosdal.
    • James Galway plays Nielsen.
    • RCA.
    • 4.
  • Ludovic Lamothe

    Feuillet d'album No.1

    Performer: C茅lim猫ne Daudet.
    • Ha茂ti mon amour.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 1.
  • Max Bruch

    Kol nidrei, Op.47 arranged for viola & orchestra

    Performer: Nils M枚nkemeyer. Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Markus Poschner.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Thoinot Arbeau

    Belle qui tiens ma vie - pavane

    Ensemble: Capella Reial De Catalunya Vocal Ensemble. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Julie Cooper

    Pavane in Burnt Orange [The Renaissance Suite]

    Performer: Clio Gould. Performer: Camilla Pay. Ensemble: Oculus Ensemble.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Steve Pycroft

    Miami Beach

    Performer: Steve Pycroft.
    • STEVE PYCROFT MUSIC.
  • Trad.

    Danza del Altiplano

    Music Arranger: Leo Brouwer. Performer: Robert Beer.
    • Cuban Landscape.
    • Koch.
    • 19.
  • Veljo Tormis

    It is late summer (Autumn Landscapes)

    Choir: Holst Singers. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Veljo Tormis - Choral music.
    • HYPERION.
    • 15.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Gloria in D major RV.589 for soloists, chorus and orchestra

    Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Symphony of Harmony and Invention. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • COLLINS CLASSICS.
  • Eric Fogg

    Bassoon Concerto (3rd mvt: Con spirito)

    Performer: Graham Salvage. Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • ASV.
  • Amy Beach

    Hermit Thrush at Morn Op.92`2

    Performer: Joanna Polk.
    • Amy Beach - Under the Stars. Solo Piano Music (Vol. 2).
    • Arabesque.
    • 5.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Rondo for String Quartet in C minor

    Ensemble: Fine Arts Quartet.
    • Naxos.
  • Duke Ellington

    Nutcracker Suite [after TCHAIKOVSKY] (Overture)

    Composer: Billy Strayhorn. Music Arranger: Jeff Tyzik. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Grams.
    • The Nutcracker Suite.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Florence Price

    Violin Concerto no.1 in D Major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Randall Goosby. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Florence Price: Violin Concertos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • Max Reger

    Das Sternlein [6 Ausgewahlte Volkslieder]

    Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major, D 803 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Serse, HWV.40 - Overture

    Orchestra: Il Pomo d鈥橭ro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • Handel: Serse.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Edward MacDowell

    Witches' Dance, Op.17 no.2

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • The Piano Album: Stephen Hough.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 1.
  • Edward MacDowell

    Moto Perpetuo [12 Virtuoso Etudes, Op.46]

    Performer: James Barbagallo.
    • Macdowell: Piano Sonata No. 4 / 6 Poems / 12 Virtuoso Studies.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Ernest John Moeran

    Overture for a Festival

    Orchestrator: Rodney Newton. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Yates.
    • Ernest John Moeran: Sketches for Symphony No.2 - John Ireland: Sarnia - An Islan.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 8.

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