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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.

Today's sunrise playlist includes a specially commissioned track taken from the Music and Meditation podcast to mark Â鶹Éç Mental Wellbeing season.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Sat 18 May 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    ¸éê±¹±ð°ù¾±±ð

    Performer: Anne Queffélec.
    • Anne Queffelec: Satie & compagnie.
    • Mirare.
    • 6.
  • William Lawes

    Consort suite No.3 for 6 viols in F major "Sunrise"

    Performer: Paul Nicholson. Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Frederick Delius

    Summer night on the river RT.6.19

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Gustave Samazeuilh

    Serenade for guitar

    Performer: Marina Tomei.
    • STRADIVARIUS.
    • STR37256.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis et Chloe - ballet [with chorus]: Pt.3; Lever du jour

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • CSO Resound.
  • Ernest John Moeran

    To Daffodils (Songs of Springtime)

    Choir: Finzi Singers. Conductor: Paul Spicer.
    • Moeran: Song Cycles / Warlock: Songs.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Michael Price

    Whitsun

    Performer: Michael Price.
    • Not On Label.
  • Jackie Oates

    Spring is coming soon

    Performer: Jackie Oates.
    • ECC Records.
  • William Grant Still

    Serenade

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Avlana Eisenberg.
    • Still: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Morning Mood [Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op.46]

    Performer: Fairey Band. Music Arranger: Kenneth Cook. Conductor: Kenneth Dennison.
    • DECCA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet in E flat major K.452 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble 360.
    • Mozart: Chamber Works.
    • ASV.
    • 7.
  • Ghislaine Reece-Trapp

    Gratitude

    Performer: Miwa Rosso. Performer: Libby Burgess. Choir: Â鶹Éç Singers. Conductor: Sarah Latto.
  • Gustav Holst

    Mercury, the Winged Messenger (The Planets, Op 32)

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Holst: Orchestral Works, Volume 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 12.
  • Percy Grainger

    Country Gardens

    Performer: Joseph Cooper.
    • The World of The Piano: Ashkenazy, Schiff, Lupu.
    • Decca.
    • 12.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Requiem Op.48 (Agnus Dei)

    Choir: Brussels Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: Le Concert Spirituel. Conductor: Hervé Niquet.
    • EVIL PENGUIN RECORDS CLASSIC.
  • Trad. English

    Grimstock/Greensleeves Morris

    Performer: Tom Kitching. Music Arranger: Tom Kitching.
    • Talking Cat Records.
  • Franz Schubert

    Polonaise No.3 in E major for piano duet, D.599

    Performer: Yaara Tal. Performer: Andreas Groethuysen.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Yeomen of the Guard (Overture)

    Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Yeoman of the Guard and Trial by Jury.
    • TELARC.
    • 1.
  • Agustín Barrios Mangoré

    Cueca (Danza popular de Chile) for guitar [Benites R.: vol.2 p.27]

    Performer: John Williams.
    • The Great Paraquayan.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.
  • Cesar Cui

    Tarantella in G minor, Op 12

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd.
    • NAXOS.
  • Athanasius Kircher

    Antidotum tarantulae

    Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • La Tarantella: Antidotum Tarantulae.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 17.
  • Dora PejaÄević

    Symphony in F sharp minor, Op 41 (3rd mvt, Scherzo: Molto allegro)

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Chandos.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Mazurka in A minor, Op 17 No 4

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Chopin: 4 Ballades.
    • Sony.
    • 9.
  • Leonardo Vinci

    Catone in Utica (Sinfonia)

    Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • Decca.

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