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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.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Sat 25 May 2024 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Serse - opera in 3 acts: Ombra mai fu

    Performer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Berlin Academy of Ancient Music.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • HMX2901685.

  • Franz Liszt

    Consolations S.172 for piano: No.2

    Performer: Mariam Batsashvili.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9029542786.

  • Benjamin Britten

    4 Sea interludes [from 'Peter Grimes'] Op.33a: Dawn; Sunday morning

    Conductor: Edward Gardner. Performer: 麻豆社 Philharmonic.
    • CHANDOS.
    • CHAN10658.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G Major, Hob. XV:32: I. Andante

    Performer: Aquinas Piano Trio.
    • NAXOS.
    • 8.574362.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    Serenata con violini (Sinfonia), Op 8

    Performer: Poiesis Ensemble.
    • AEON.
    • AECD0643.

  • James MacMillan

    O Radiant Dawn for chorus [Strathclyde motets]

    Performer: Apollo 5.
    • VC Records.
    • VCM123.

  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian spring: Conclusion

    Conductor: Aaron Copland. Performer: Boston Symphony Orchestra.
    • RCA.
    • 09026-61505 2.

  • Richard Strauss

    4 Lieder Op.27: Morgen

    Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Margareta Nilsson. Performer: Nils鈥怑rik Sparf.
    • BIS.
    • BIS-2327.

  • Olivia Chaney

    To The Lighthouse

    Performer: Olivia Chaney.
    • OLIVIA CHANEY.
    • DOWNLOAD.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les Boreades or Abaris: Les Heures et les Arts

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • DG.
    • 4837701.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les Boreades or Abaris: Gavottes pour les Heures et les Zephirs

    Conductor: Marc Minkowski. Performer: Les Musiciens du Louvre.
    • ARCHIV.
    • 0289-477 5578.

  • Serge Gainsbourg

    Couleur Cafe

    Performer: Elina Duni. Performer: Fred Thomas. Performer: Rob Luft.
    • 麻豆社 RECORDING.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Quartet in A flat major: 1st mvt - Allegro moderato

    Performer: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • CHANDOS.
    • CHAN 20256.

  • Joseph Shabalala

    Isikha Siyimali

    Performer: Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
    • RHINO.
    • 603497100163.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto no. 23 in A major K.488: 3rd movement

    Conductor: G谩bor Tak谩cs鈥怤agy. Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Performer: Manchester Camerata.
    • CHANDOS.
    • CHANDOS : 942405.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive overture, arr. Kitson for brass band

    Conductor: Salvatore Scarpa. Performer: Atlantic Brass Band.
    • JRB RECORDS.
    • 611401000126.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Mass in D major Op.123 (Missa solemnis): Kyrie

    Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Performer: Alastair Miles. Performer: Catherine Robbin. Performer: Charlotte Margiono. Performer: William Kendall. Performer: Monteverdi Choir. Performer: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique.
    • SDG.
    • SDG718.

  • Augusta Holm猫s

    La Visione de la reine: Recitatif et chant

    Performer: Connie Shih. Performer: Steven Isserlis.
    • BIS.
    • BIS2522.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Raymonda - ballet Op.57: Grande Valse

    Performer: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov. Performer: USSR Symphony Orchestra.
    • MELODIYA.
    • 7432153456 2.

  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    La Campanella, arr. Kreisler for violin & piano [from Violin concerto no.2]

    Performer: Haruko Ueda. Performer: Laurent Korcia.
    • NAIVE.
    • V5344.

  • Sebastian Oswald

    Invention (Grounded) No 4

    Performer: Sebastian Oswald.
    • SEBASTIAN OSWALD.
    • DIGITAL DOWNLOAD.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.211 (Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht "Kaffee-Kantate"): Heute noch, heute noch

    Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki. Performer: Carolyn Sampson. Performer: Japan Bach Collegium.
    • BIS.
    • CD1411.

  • Gustav Holst

    Japanese suite Op.33: no.3 - Dance under the cherry tree

    Conductor: Andrew Davis. Performer: 麻豆社 Philharmonic. Performer: Manchester Chamber Choir.
    • CHANDOS.
    • CHSA5086.

  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol suite: Bransles; Pieds en l'air; Mattachins

    Performer: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.
    • CDA66938.

Broadcast

  • Sat 25 May 2024 06:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3

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