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Saturday - Victoria Meakin

Victoria Meakin presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 12 Mar 2016 07:00

Music Played

  • Herbert Howells

    Even such is time

    Choir: The Rodolfus Choir. Conductor: Ralph Allwood.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Frederick Delius

    Spring Idyll

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Naxos.
  • Thomas Arne

    Alfred (Overture)

    Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Edward MacDowell

    To a wild rose / To a water lully / To an old white pine

    Performer: James Barbagallo.
    • MARCO POLO.
  • Paul Hindemith

    Turandot Scherzo (Symphonic Metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber)

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Anton Rickenbacher.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Carlo Gesualdo

    O vos omnes

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Decca.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • Conifer.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E flat major, Op.38 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • DIVOX.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Rollicum Rorum, Op.15 No.6

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Decca.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.59 in A major, "Fire" (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Giuseppe Tamplini

    Fantasia on themes from Donizetti's Don Pasquale

    Performer: Kim Walker. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • REGENT.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Pirates of Penzance (Overture)

    Orchestra: The D鈥橭yly Carte Opera Company. Conductor: John Pryce-Jones.
    • TER CLASSICS.
  • Franz Schubert

    The Shepherd on the Rock, D.965

    Singer: Ailish Tynan. Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Christopher Glynn.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in C sharp minor, Op.3 No.2

    Performer: David Quigley.
    • El Greco.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Asturias (Suite espa帽ola)

    Music Arranger: John Williams. Performer: John Williams.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    I feel Pretty [West Side Story]

    Ensemble: Puppini Sisters.
    • LUSAFRICA.

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  • Sat 12 Mar 2016 07:00

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