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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 4 Aug 2018 07:00

Music Played

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Overture on Hebrew Themes

    Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.
    • EMI.
  • Salamone Rossi

    Hashirim asher lish'lomo - Lamnatseah 'al hagitit

    Choir: Profeti della Quinta.
    • PAN.
  • Traditional Chinese

    Yi dance

    Performer: Xuefei Yang. Music Arranger: Xuefei Yang.
    • GSP.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major, K 581 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Eduard Brunner. Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Mozart/Weber: Clarinet Quartets: Hagen Quartet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Alberto Ginastera

    Harp Concerto, Op. 25: III. Liberamente capriccioso

    Performer: Magdalena Ginastera. Orchestra: Orquesta Ciudad de Granada. Conductor: Josep Pons.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita no. 5 in G major, BWV 829: VII. Gigue

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
  • 脫lafur Arnalds

    Saman

    • Mercury KX.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    March in B flat major for 2 clarinets, 2 horns and 2 bassoons, WoO 29

    Performer: Gerard Reuter. Performer: Marc Schachman. Performer: Charles Neidich. Performer: Ayako Oshima. Performer: Dennis Godburn. Performer: Michael O'Donovan. Performer: William Purvis. Performer: Stewart Rose. Ensemble: Mozzafiato. Conductor: Charles Neidich.
    • Beethoven: Chamber music for wind instruments: Mozzafiato/Neidich.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Frank Bridge

    Seascape (The Sea)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Henry Purcell

    Duet 'Fear no Danger' from Dido & Aeneas

    Singer: Anna Prohaska. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon 脿 8 no.7

    Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • ARGO.
  • Charlotte Bray

    Agnus Dei (a reflection on Byrd's Agnus Dei)

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Italian Serenade

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Samuel Barber

    Canzonetta for oboe and strings

    Performer: Stephanie Rancourt. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Naxos.
  • Robert Schumann

    Phantasiest眉ck, Op 73 No 3

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Steven Isserlis plays Schumann.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 8.
  • Muriel Herbert

    The Lost Nightingale

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly.
    • Chandos.
  • Aidan O鈥橰ourke

    A Fox and a hound met on early one morning on a hillside

    Performer: Aidan O鈥橰ourke. Performer: Kit Downes.
    • Reveal Records.
  • Oumou Sangar茅

    Moussolu

    Performer: Oumou Sangar茅. Performer: Aliou Traore. Performer: Boubacar Diallo. Performer: Brehima Diakite.
    • World Circuit.
  • Walter Frye

    Missa Flos Regalis: Agnus Dei

    Choir: Binchois Consort. Conductor: Andrew Kirkman.
    • Hyperion.

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