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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 16 Jul 2016 07:00

Music Played

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Nais - Suire (Ouverture)

    Ensemble: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    鈥楪luck, das mir verblieb鈥 (Marietta鈥檚 Song!)

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
  • George Gershwin

    Summertime (Porgy and Bess)

    Performer: Miles Davis. Ensemble: Ensemble. Conductor: Gil Evans.
    • Columbia.
  • Ephrem Podgaits

    The Moon-Pipes (Fairy Tale Cantata)

    Performer: Elena Sorokina. Performer: Yulia Tikhonova. Performer: Viktor Grishin. Performer: Konstantin Venevtsev. Choir: Vesna Moscow Children's Choir. Conductor: Alexander Ponomarev.
    • OPUS.
  • Vincent Youmans

    Tahiti trot [Tea for two] (No, no, Nanette)

    Orchestrator: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
    • Decca.
    • 16.
  • John Dowland

    Flow not so fast, ye fountains

    Performer: Robert Spencer. Singer: Alfred Deller.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Clarinet Sonata in E flat major Op.167

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Oleg Maisenberg.
    • EMI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto for 2 Violins in C major K190 (1st mvt.)

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Pinchas Zukerman. Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • DG.
  • Charles Trenet

    Le Jardin Extraordinaire

    • Columbia.
  • Ernest Bloch

    Prayer

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Ensemble: Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
    • Sony.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Semele 鈥 鈥榃here 鈥榚r you walk鈥

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • DG.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony no.1 in D major 'Classical'

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Anna Meredith

    Nautilus

    Performer: Anna Meredith.
    • Varmints.
    • Moshi Moshi Records.
    • 1.

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