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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

Last on

Sat 1 Jun 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Max Richter

    On the Nature of Daylight

    Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Luna.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.
  • Claude Debussy

    2 Arabesques for piano

    Performer: Simon Trpceski.
    • Debussy: Images/Children's Corner etc: Simon Trpceski.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Concerto in 7 parts no.3 in F major

    Ensemble: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Ottavio Dantone.
    • Scarlatti: 6 Concerti Grossi; Cello Sonatas.
    • Arts.
    • 8-12.
  • Alice Mary Smith

    Six Short Pieces for piano (No 3 in A minor)

    Performer: Hiroaki Takenouchi.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 8 in C minor, Op 13, 'Pathétique' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • EMI.
  • William Alwyn

    Lyra Angelica: I. Adagio

    Performer: Rachel Masters. Conductor: Richard Hickox. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia.
    • Byways Of British Music.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • Carolina Eyck

    Concerning Flora

    Singer: Carolina Eyck.
    • Thetis 2086.
    • Neue Meister.
    • 5.
  • John Wilbye

    Flora gave me fairest flowers

    Ensemble: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Flora gave me fairest flowers - The Cambridge Singers/Rutters.
    • Collegium Records.
    • 7.
  • Francisco Tárrega

    Recuerdos de la Alhambra

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • The Guitar: Milos Karadaglic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Serenade No.1 in D Major, Op.11 - 6. Rondo (Allegro)

    Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.
    • Brahms: Serenade No. 1 / Wagner: Siegfried Idyll.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    June: Barcarolle (The Seasons, Op 37b)

    Performer: Ji Liu.
    • Ji Liu: Piano Reflections.
    • CLASSIC FM.
    • 9.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Whispers of Summer

    Lyricist: Kathleen Easmon. Choir: London Choral Sinfonia. Conductor: Michael Waldron.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Choral Works.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 203.
  • Trad.

    St Birgitta Hymn - Rosa Rorans Bonitatem

    Performer: Arve Henriksen. Music Arranger: Anna Maria Friman. Music Arranger: Linn Andrea Fuglseth. Music Arranger: Berit Opheim. Music Arranger: Arve Henriksen. Choir: Trio Mediæval.
    • íܰ.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 1.
  • Ferdinand Hérold

    Lise and the ribbon (La Fille mal gardée)

    Composer: John Lanchbery. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Hérold, Lanchbery: La fille mal gardée.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • Peter Ludwig Hertel

    Clog Dance (La fille mal gardée)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Lanchbery.
    • EMI.
  • Carl Orff

    Carmina Burana: Ecce gratum & Dance

    Choir: Rutgers University Choir. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
    • G010001367999L.
    • 5.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Flute Concerto in G minor, RV 439, 'La notte'

    Performer: Sébastien Marq. Ensemble: Ensemble Matheus. Director: Jean‐Christophe Spinosi.
    • Naive.
  • Trad.

    Blackthorn

    Performer: Will Pound. Performer: Jenn Butterworth.
    • WILLIAM POUND.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Ensemble: Kremerata Baltica.
    • Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica: After Mozart.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 7.
  • Edward Elgar

    Sea Pictures, Op.37

    Singer: Kathryn Rudge. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • ONYX.
  • Robert Schumann

    Phantasiestücke, Op 73

    Performer: Gervase de Peyer. Performer: Gwenneth Pryor.
    • Schubert, Schumann, Weber: Gervase de Peyer.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33: No. 6 in E flat minor

    Performer: Boris Giltburg.
    • Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 & Études-tableaux, Op. 33.
    • NAXOS.
    • 8.
  • Adolph Deutsch

    Some like it hot

    Ensemble: Matty Malneck & his Orchestra.
    • Soundtrack Classics.
    • 886788483743.
    • 14.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: 鶹 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Glinka: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

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