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Sunday - Elizabeth Alker

Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 22 May 2016 07:00

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Philip Glass

    Akhnaten (Dance)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Takuo Yuasa.
    • NAXOS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in A minor, K 511

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
  • Jocelyn Pook

    Banquet for Shylock [Tourdion] (The Merchant of Venice)

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: Pamela Thorby. Performer: Clara Sanabras. Performer: Jeremy West. Performer: Harvey Brough.
    • Decca.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Dumbarton Oaks (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Igor Stravinsky.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Romance (5 Bagatelles Op.23)

    Music Arranger: Lawrence Ashmore. Performer: Robert Plane. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • Finzi: Clarinet Concerto, Five Bagatelles: Robert Plane, Northern Sinfonia.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    String Quartet No. 4 iv

    Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
  • Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

    Peanuts Gallery: 1

    Conductor: Jeffrey Biegel. Orchestra: Florida State University Orchestra.
    • Naxos.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Africa Fantasie, Op.89

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Hyperion.
  • Moondog

    Bird's Lament

    Ensemble: Moondog. Performer: London Saxophonic.
    • Kopf.
  • Percy Grainger

    Walking Tune

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Hoagy Carmichael

    Skylark

    Performer: Don Fagerquist. Performer: Ray Linn. Performer: Harry Klee. Performer: Art Pepper. Performer: Mort Friedman. Performer: Marty Berman. Performer: Jimmy Rowles. Performer: Al Hendrickson. Performer: Nick Fatool. Singer: Hoagy Carmichael. Singer: Ralph Pena.
    • Pacific Jazz.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Fantasie.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 2.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Marche Miniature Viennoise

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • EMI.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    Fratres

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Vadim Vasilyevich Sakharov. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Teldec Classics.
  • Richard Wagner

    Forest Murmurs (Siegfried)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.
    • CBS.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Oliver Cromwell [Suffolk nursery rhyme]

    Performer: Paul Turner. Singer: Elizabeth Watts.

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