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Sunday - Elizabeth Alker

Elizabeth Alker presents Breakfast, with the daily J S Bach Prelude and fugue from Book 2 of the Well-Tempered Clavier plus listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. This month we are featuring a daily prelude and fugue from Book 2 of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, and today is No.3 in C sharp major, BWV.872. Also including listener requests and the Breakfast Advent Calendar.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 3 Dec 2017 07:00

Music Played

  • Frank Bridge

    Sir Roger de Coverley

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • London.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 130: Cavatina

    Ensemble: Budapest String Quartet.
    • BIDDULPH LAB.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Nulla in mundo pax sincera, RV 630

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Simon Preston.
    • L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Midvinter (Midwinter)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Gothenburg Concert Hall Choir. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • BIS.
  • 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.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Flight of the Bumblebee transc for piano

    Performer: Olga Kern.
    • Rachmaninov: Transcriptions/variations: Olga Kern.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 13.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Well-Tempered Clavier: No. 3: Prelude and Fugue in C Sharp major, BWV 872

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Claver Book II.
    • Warner.
    • 5-6.
  • Irving Berlin

    White Christmas

    Performer: Jascha Heifetz. Ensemble: Salvatore Camarata & his Orchestra.
    • DG.
  • You Are Wolf

    Little Wren

    Ensemble: You Are Wolf. Ensemble: Ligeti Quartet.
    • Brawl Records.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    The Cunning Little Vixen - Suite: Movement II

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto no. 2 in F major, BWV 1047: (Movement I)

    Orchestra: Munich Bach Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Richter.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Ave Maris Stella (1610 Vespers)

    Singer: James Bowman. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Choir: Salisbury Cathedral Choir. Orchestra: Monteverdi Orchestra. Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Decca.

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  • Sun 3 Dec 2017 07:00

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