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Start your weekend the Radio 3 way, with Saturday Breakfast

Join Emma Clarke to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical and Christmas music.

Join Emma Clarke to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical and Christmas music, including Vivaldi's Gloria, Winter Solstice sounds from Laura Cannell and Bartok, and Liszt's Christmas Tree! Emma will also be opening the 21st door on our Radio 3 Breakfast Advent Calendar... and it's not Christmas without Bach played on the organ.

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Music Played

  • Anon.

    Coventry Carol

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • Christmas Carols and Motets.
    • Gimell.
    • 6.

  • 15th century

    Lullaby, lullow (I saw a swete semly syght)

    Performer: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing.
    • Christmas Carols.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15.

  • Arvo P盲rt

    7 Magnificat Antiphons: No. 1, O Weisheit; No 7, O Immanuel

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards K募ava.
    • Arvo P盲rt: Da Pacem Domine.
    • Ondine.
    • 6.

  • Francesco Manfredini

    Sinfonia da chiesa in D major, Op 2 No 12, 'Sinfonia pastorale'

    Performer: Thorsten Rosenbusch. Performer: Christian Trompler. Performer: Karl-Heinz Schr枚ter. Performer: Harald Winkler. Performer: Raphael Alpermann. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen.
    • Christmas Concertos - Kammerochestrer Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Jonathan Willcocks

    The Holly and the Ivy

    Performer: Benjamin Cunningham. Choir: Winchester College Chapel Choir. Ensemble: Onyx Brass. Conductor: Howard Ionascu.
    • A Winter's Night: Christmas Music for Choir, Brass Quintet & Organ.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1301.

  • Franz Liszt

    Abendglocken (Evening Bells) from Weihnachtsbaum (Christmas Tree)

    Performer: Rhondda Gillespie.
    • Liszt: Weihnachtsbaum & Ballades Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

  • Henry John Gauntlett

    Once In Royal David's City

    Composer: Cecil Frances Alexander. Performer: Craig Ogden. Lyricist: Henry John Gauntlett. Lyricist: Cecil Frances Alexander. Music Arranger: Craig Ogden.
    • Christmas Time.
    • CLASSIC FM.
    • 8.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux aurumque

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Decca.

  • Emmy Schafer Klein

    Child's Dream from Christmas Album Op.8 No.1

    Performer: Alexandra Dariescu.

  • Richard B. Smith

    Winter Wonderland arr Brubeck

    Composer: Felix Barnard. Performer: Dave Brubeck. Music Arranger: Dave Brubeck.
    • A Dave Brubeck Christmas.
    • Telarc.
    • 5.

  • Gerald Finzi

    In terra pax, Op 39

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Singer: Julia Doyle. Choir: City of London Choir. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton.
    • In Terra Pax: A Christmas Anthology.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.

  • Howard Goodall

    Solstice Night (The Seasons Suite, Winter)

    Performer: Bozidar Vukotic. Performer: Marianna Szymanowska. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Howard Goodall The Seasons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.

  • Laura Cannell

    The Bells of Midwinter

    • Midwinter Processionals.
    • Brawl Records.
    • 5.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: Duet. "He Shall Feed His Flock"

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Singer: Alex Potter. Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: John Nelson.
    • Handel: Messiah, HWV 56.
    • ERATO.
    • 21.

  • Joni Mitchell

    River (It's Coming On Christmas)

    Performer: Alis Huws. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson.
    • River (It's Coming On Christmas) [Arr. Lawson for Harp].
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Juan Guti茅rrez de Padilla

    Missa Joseph fili David (Kyrie)

    Choir: Siglo de Oro. Conductor: Patrick Allies.
    • Christmas in Puebla.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 5.

  • Gaspar Fernandes

    Xicochi conetzintle

    Ensemble: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • New World Symphonies: Baroque Music from Latin America.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • Gaspar Fernandes

    Tleycantimo choquiliya

    Choir: Siglo de Oro. Director: Patrick Allies.
    • Christmas in Puebla.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 17.

  • William James Kirkpatrick

    Away in a Manger

    Composer: Wendy Nieper. Ensemble: The Swingle Singers.
    • The Swingle Singers Unwrapped.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1001.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Polonaise (Christmas Eve suite)

    Music Arranger: Denis Wright. Performer: The Fairey Band.
    • DECCA.

  • Traditional Carol

    Good King Wenceslas

    Music Arranger: John Mason Neale. Singer: Ian Giles. Performer: Giles Lewin. Ensemble: Spiers and Boden Duo.
    • THE GIFT OF MUSIC.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Gloria in D Major, RV 589: I. Gloria in excelsis Deo

    Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Conductor: Howard Arman. Conductor: Howard Arman.
    • Joy to the World: Famous Christmas Songs.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 1.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    P茅ch茅s de vieillesse, Vol. IX "Album pour piano, violon, violoncello, harmonium

    Performer: Paolo Giacometti.
    • Rossini: Un petit train de plaisir: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 3.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 10.

  • William James

    Carol of the Birds

    Choir: Pro Arte Singers of Connecticut. Conductor: Arthur Sj枚gren.
    • Christmas Night - Favorite Hymns and Carols (Live).
    • MSR Classics.
    • 7.

  • Thomas Tallis

    O nata lux de lumine

    Choir: Alamire. Director: David Skinner.
    • Tallis & Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae 1575: Alamire, David Skinner.
    • Obsidian.
    • 8.

  • Lorne Balfe

    Vengeance most fowl

    Composer: Julian Nott. Orchestra: Original Soundtrack Orchestra.
    • Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance most fowl.
    • MASTERWORKS.
    • 1.

  • Stephanie Martin

    Let All Mortal Flesh

    Choir: 麻豆社 Singers. Conductor: Toby Ward.

  • Mariah Carey

    All I Want For Christmas

    Composer: Walter Afanasieff. Ensemble: The Puppini Sisters.
    • Christmas With The Puppini Sisters.
    • Verve.
    • 7.

  • John Rutter

    What sweeter music

    Performer: Peter Stevens. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • A Festival Of Nine Lessons and Carols.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Fairy's Kiss (Prologue)

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss & Sc猫nes de ballet.
    • Hyperion.

  • Black Dyke Band

    White Christmas

    • A Festival of Christmas Carols.
    • Metro.
    • 1.

  • Trad.

    In Dulci Jubilo

    Music Arranger: Mike Oldfield. Performer: Mike Oldfield.
    • Virgin.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chorale-Prelude 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her', BWV 700

    Performer: Philip Brunelle.
    • Serenade for a Christmas Night: Philip Brunelle.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 1.

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