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Start your weekend the Radio 3 way, with Saturday Breakfast

Join Elizabeth Alker to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical music.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus D.935 (no.2 in A flat major)

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • OTTAVO.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Serenade to Music (orchestral version)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Yates.
    • DUTTON.
  • Jessica Curry

    The Light We Cast (from 'Everybody's Gone to the Rapture' video game soundtrack)

    Lyricist: Dan Pinchbeck. Choir: London Voices. Conductor: Ben Parry.
    • Sony.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Piano Quartet in A flat major (3rd mvt: Tempo di Minuetto)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet, Piano Quartet, Piano Trio.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Music Arranger: Jesse Diener-Bennett. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Orchestra: The Knights. Conductor: Eric Jacobsen.
    • Golijov: Azul.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 102.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Une barque sur l'oc茅an (Miroirs)

    Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.
    • Ravel: Piano Concertos: Aimard/Cleveland Orchestra/Boulez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Anon.

    O Maria, Stella Maris

    Choir: Trio Medi忙val.
    • ECM.
  • Kate Stables

    Bullet Proof (First Go)

    • Moonshine First Goes.
    • Rough Trade.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major for 2 trumpets, RV.537

    Performer: Crispian Steele鈥怭erkins. Performer: John Thiessen. Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Jeanne Lamon.
    • Trumpet Music: Steele-Perkins, Taflemusik, Lamon.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9-11.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    The Four Seasons: Spring 0 and Spring 1

    Composer: Max Richter. Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin. Conductor: Andr茅 de Ridder.
    • The Four Seasons Recomposed By Max Richter.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 1-2.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Clarinet Trio in E flat major, Op.44 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Diana Ambache. Performer: Joan Enric Lluna. Performer: Naomi Butterworth.
    • 大象传媒 Music.
  • Frederick Delius

    La Calinda (Koanga)

    Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Delius: Orchestral Works.
    • LONDON.
    • 8.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Chorale (Diptych)

    Performer: Joseph Wicks.
    • Regent.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse (Suite No 2 in C major, Op 53)

    Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Tchaikovsky: 4 Suites for Orchestra: New Philharmonia/Dorati.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Scaramouche - suite for 2 pianos: Vif

    Performer: Katia & Marielle Lab猫que.
    • PHILLIPS.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Scaramouche - suite for 2 pianos: Brazileira

    Performer: Katia & Marielle Lab猫que.
    • PHILLIPS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G major, BWV 1049 (1st mvt, Allegro)

    Performer: Reinhard Goebel. Ensemble: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • ARCHIV PRODUKTION.
  • William Grant Still

    Serenade

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Avlana Eisenberg.
    • Still: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quartet for oboe and strings in F major, K.370 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Performer: Boris Brovtsyn. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Kristina Blaumane.
    • BIS.
  • L茅o Delibes

    Sous le d么me 茅pais (Lakm茅)

    Singer: Mady Mespl茅. Singer: Danielle Millet. Orchestra: Orchestre du Th茅芒tre National de l鈥橭p茅ra鈥怌omique. Conductor: Alain Lombard.
    • 100 Best Relaxing Classics.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.
  • Trad.

    Daffodil Mulligan

    • Lankum.
  • Koji Kondo

    Legend of Zelda: Suite

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Skeet.
    • The Greatest Video Game Music.
    • X5 Music Group.
    • 2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata in F major (Spring) for violin and piano: 1st mvt

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Beethoven: Complete Sonatas For Violin And Piano.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 4.
  • Philipp Jakob Rittler

    Ciaccona a 7

    Performer: Josh Cohen. Orchestra: Ensemble Sprezzatura. Conductor: Daniel Abraham.
    • Altissima - works for high baroque trumpet.
    • Chandos.
    • 22.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Romanian Folk Dances

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • La Roxolana.
    • Alpha.
    • 09.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony no.1 in D major Op.25 'Classical' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.

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