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Saturday - Elizabeth Alker

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

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 28 May 2016 07:00

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Rose Adagio (The Sleeping Beauty)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake; Sleeping Beauty; The Nutcracker - Highlights.
    • EMI.
    • 7.
  • Morten Lauridsen

    Contre qui, rose (Les chansons des roses)

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Lauridsen: Mid-Winter Songs etc: Polyphony/Britten Sinfonia/Layton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction and Allegro arr for two pianos

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Alessandro Stella.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet in C major, K 515 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Denes Koromzay. Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • HUNGAROTON.
  • Alfred Schnittke

    Gogol Suite - vi. The Bureaucrats

    Conductor: Lev Markiz. Orchestra: Malm枚 SymfoniOrkester.
    • BIS.
  • Ture Rangstr枚m

    Symphony No 1 in C sharp minor (3rd mvt, 'Trollruna')

    Conductor: Michail Jurowski. Orchestra: Norrk枚pings Symfoniorkester.
  • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    6 Bagatelles for wind quintet, no.1; & no.3; & no.4

    Ensemble: Barry Tuckwell Wind Quintet.
    • EMI.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in C major, RV 191

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Conductor: Andrea Marcon. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Sonata in E flat major Op.120`2 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Carl Czerny

    Variations on the aria, 'La Ricordanza', Op.33

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • SONY.
  • Paul Desmond

    Take Five (Live in Japan)

    Performer: Rodrigo y Gabriela.
    • RUBY WORKS RECORDS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Fidelio - Act I "Mir ist so Wunderbar"

    Singer: Pamela Coburn. Singer: Jessye Norman. Singer: Kurt Moll. Singer: Hans Peter Blochwitz. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Haitink. Conductor: Bernard.
    • Philips.
  • Robert Schumann

    "In der fremde" from Liederkreis Op.39

    Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau.
    • EMI CLASSICS.

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