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Start your weekend the Radio 3 way, with Saturday Breakfast

Elizabeth Alker with a Breakfast melange of classical music, folk and the odd Unclassified track. Start your weekend right.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 3 Feb 2024 07:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in B flat major, K 361, 'Gran Partita' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Mozart: Serenades: Academy of St Martin in the fields/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 4.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis et Chlo茅: Lever du jour

    Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • Boulez Conducts Debussy & Ravel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    February, 'Carnaval' (The Seasons)

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043: II. Largo ma non tanto

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Bernhard Forck. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • J.S. Bach: Violin Concertos.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 34.
  • Nils Frahm

    Butter Notes

    Performer: Nils Frahm.
    • Day.
    • LEITER.
    • 3.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    String quartet in E flat major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.
    • Mendelssohn: Felix & Fanny: Quatuor Ebene.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 6.
  • Katy Lavinia Cooper

    Rousay Lullaby

    Ensemble: Glasgow Madrigirls.
    • Glasgow Madrigirls.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Juliette Hurel. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • WARNER.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Waltz 2 (Suite no.2 for jazz band)

    Orchestra: Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitry Yablonsky.
    • NAXOS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Cello in B flat, Op.11 "Gassenhauer": II. Adagio

    Performer: Eric Le Sage. Performer: Paul Meyer. Performer: Claudio Boh贸rquez.
    • Beethoven: Trios for Clarinet, Cello & Piano.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The Creation [Die Schopfung] (H.21.2), Pt 1 no.13; Die Himmel erzahlen

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Singer: Mark Padmore. Singer: Neal Davies. Choir: Chetham's Chamber Choir. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Haydn: The Creation: Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh.
    • Archiv Produktion.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor Op.2 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet, Piano Trio, Piano Quintet.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • Aidan O鈥橰ourke

    One Day in Town Jack Becomes Aware of a Sinister Figure Lurking Nearby

    Performer: Aidan O鈥橰ourke.
    • Reveal Records.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    English Folk Song Suite

    Music Arranger: Gordon Jacob. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • EMI.
  • Steve Reich

    Electric Counterpoint: II. Slow

    Performer: Pat Metheny.
  • Rhian Samuel

    The Trumpet, from Earth Newborn

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Nicholas Kok.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Berceuse (Dolly Suite, Op.56)

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que.
    • Bizet, Ravel, Faure: Katia & Marielle Labeque.
    • Philips.
    • 13.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Mi-a-ou (Dolly Suite, Op 56)

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que.
    • Bizet, Ravel, Faure: Katia & Marielle Labeque.
    • Philips.
    • 14.
  • Kelly Lee Owens

    Find Our Way (Arr. Clements)

    Composer: Sebastian Plano. Performer: Gabriella Swallow. Music Arranger: Jim Clements. Choir: VOCES8.
    • Infinity.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Oboe Concerto in D minor Op.9`2 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Anthony Robson. Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Simon Standage.
    • Albinoni: Concertos for Oboe and Strings: Collegium Musicum 90/Standage.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 5 in B flat major, D 485 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Karl Bohm.
    • Beethoven, Symphonie No. 6 禄Pastorale芦 + Schubert: Symphonie No. 5: Vienna Philh.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 9.

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