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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 20 Jul 2024 06:30
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Music Played

  • Frederick Delius

    A Song Before Sunrise

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Best of British, Vol. 2.
    • Crimson.
    • 4.

  • Henryk MikoÅ‚aj Górecki

    Totus tuus

    Choir: Holst Singers. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in E flat major, Op 1 No 1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Georges Solchany. Performer: Arpad Gérecz. Performer: Vilmos Palotai. Orchestra: Hungarian Trio.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Rusalka, Op. 114: Song to the Moon

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Conductor: Michael Stern.
    • Voice of the Violin.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Florence Price

    Summer Moon

    Music Arranger: William Newell. Ensemble: Solem Quartet.
    • The Four Quarters.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 10.

  • John Dowland

    Semper Dowland semper dolens

    Performer: Paul O’Dette.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    arr. Hess: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

    Performer: Emmanuel Despax. Music Arranger: Myra Hess.
    • Spira, Spera.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 14.

  • The King's Singers/English Chamber Orchestra/Carl Davis, English Chamber Orchestra & Carl Davis

    America

    • America: Bridge Over Troubled Water.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor, Op.10 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Klaus Hampl. Ensemble: Quartetto di Roma.
    • Coleridge-Taylor & Ben-Haim: Clarinet Quintets.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.

  • Michael Haydn

    Ave regina caelorum M.140

    Choir: S:t Jacobs kammarkör. Conductor: Gary Graden.
    • Michael Haydn - Sacred Choral Music.
    • BIS.
    • 14.

  • Teresa Carreño

    Elegia No 1, Op 17, 'Plainte'

    Performer: Alexandra Oehler.
    • Teresa Carreno: Klavierwerke (Piano works).
    • ARS MUSICI.
    • 003.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Che faro senza Euridice (J'ai perdu mon ...)from Act 3, Scene 1 of Orfeo ed Euridice

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Arias for Guadagni.
    • HYPERION.
    • 18.

  • Edward Elgar

    La capricieuse, Op.17

    Music Arranger: Paul Cassidy. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Petits-fours Favourite Encores: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Maurice Duruflé

    Requiem aeternam & Kyrie (Requiem Op.9)

    Choir: Orfeón Donostiarra. Orchestra: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. Conductor: Michel Plasson.
    • Duruflé: Choral Works.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 102.

  • Milton Nascimento

    Saudade Dos Aviões Da Panair (Conversando No Bar)

    Performer: Milton Nascimento. Performer: Esperanza Spalding. Music Arranger: Esperanza Spalding. Singer: Lianne La Havas. Singer: Maria Gadú. Singer: Tim Bernardes.
    • CONCORD.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Libertango

    Music Arranger: Trio 21meter60. Ensemble: Trio 21meter60.
    • Nothing but Tuba.
    • Genuin.
    • 301.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Cinq Morceaux de fantaisie op 3

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Tharaud Plays Rachmaninov.
    • ERATO.
    • 004.

  • Alessandro Marcello

    Oboe Concerto in D minor

    Performer: Katharina Spreckelsen. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Harry Bicket.
    • SIGNUM.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Dance of desire (Enchantment, No 3)

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • NAVONA.
    • 13.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.4 in A major Op.90 'Italian' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos.3 & 4: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Harnoncourt.
    • Teldec.
    • 8.

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