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Friday - Elizabeth Alker

Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 24 Aug 2018 06:30

Music Played

  • Anthony Holborne

    The Honie-suckle - almain

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.
  • Anthony Holborne

    Muy Linda

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.
    • 2.
  • Anthony Holborne

    The Fairie-round - galliard (courante) vers. for lute

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.
  • Antonio Salieri

    Symphony in D major "Veneziana"

    Ensemble: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Traditional Irish

    The Salley Gardens

    Music Arranger: Craig Leon. Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DECCA.
    • 2.
  • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    Musica Ricercata (no.7)

    Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.
    • Sony.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu Joy of Man鈥檚 Desiring (Cantata No 147)

    Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E flat major, Op.38 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • Farrenc: Nonet & Clarinet Trio.
    • DIVOX.
    • 3.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    November: In the troika (The Seasons, Op 37b)

    Performer: Denis Matsuev.
    • Denis Matsuev: Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky.
    • RCA Red Seal.
  • Owain Park

    The wings of the wind

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Singer: Anita Monserrat. Director: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', Op.26

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Trad.

    I Stood on the River of Jordan

    Music Arranger: Moses Hogan. Singer: Barbara Hendricks. Choir: Moses Hogan Chorale. Conductor: Moses Hogan.
    • Barbara Hendricks: Spirituals.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 217.
  • William Schuman

    American Festival Overture

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Copland: Apalachian Spring.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in B flat major, WoO 60

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Alfred Brendel plays, vol.4.
    • Vox Box.
    • 17.
  • Friday Poem

    • "Mile" by Tom Hulatt, read by Helen Mort

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Running Set

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto.
    • Naxos.
    • 13.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, BWV 1048

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Alison Bury.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.
  • Gruff Rhys

    Dylan鈥檚 Demons (Set Fire To The Stars)

    Ensemble: Original soundtrack to the film.
    • Set Fire to The Stars.
    • TWISTED NERVE.
    • 22.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Jubilate Deo

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Performer: James Lancelot. Director: Philip Ledger.
    • EMI.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    L'Egyptienne (Nouvelles suites de pi猫ces de clavecin)

    Performer: Viviane Chassot.
    • Genuin.
  • Hugo Wolf

    Italian serenade

    Ensemble: Amphion Quartet.
    • NIMBUS.
  • Traditional Spanish

    Cockles

    Music Arranger: Estrella Morente. Performer: Estrella Morente. Performer: Alfredo Lagos.
    • My Songs And A Poem.
    • REALWORLD.
    • 1.
  • John Williams

    Restoration (Jane Eyre)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nic Raine.
    • The Music Of John Williams: 40 Years Of Film Music.
    • Silva Screen.
    • 4.
  • John Williams

    To Thornfield (Jane Eyre)

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nic Raine.
    • The Music Of John Williams: 40 Years Of Film Music.
    • Silva Screen.
    • 3.
  • Richard Strauss

    Serenade in E flat major, Op.7

    Ensemble: Ensemble Paris-Bastille. Director: Fran莽ois Leleux.
    • Francois Leleux - Richard Strauss.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • William Kroll

    Banjo and Fiddle

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Performer: Charles Abramovic.
    • Simply Sarah: Sarah Chang.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Praeludium (Holberg Suite, Op.40)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • The Best of the Academy.
    • CFP.
    • 7.

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