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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

Last on

Sat 11 May 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Arabeske in C major Op.18

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Mer (De l'aube 脿 midi sur la mer)

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
    • Musicales Actes Sud.
  • Trad.

    Nu rinder solen opp [Behold, the dawning sun]

    Music Arranger: Linn Andrea Fuglseth. Ensemble: Trio Medi忙val.
    • 2L.
  • Giovanni Benedetto Platti

    Cello Sonata No. 7 in D Major, I. 84: IV. Presto

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: Fred Thomas. Performer: Kadialy Kouyate.
    • Where is Home / Hae ke Kae.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 4.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La Traviata (Act 1 Prelude)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Viva Verdi.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 - Aria

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Gaffigan.
    • Warner.
  • Amy Beach

    Valse Caprice Op 4

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Guild.
  • Kate Stables

    Creeping Up Our Shins

    Ensemble: This Is the Kit.
    • David Vernon.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in F-sharp minor, Op. 6, No. 1

    Performer: Joshua Bell. Music Arranger: B茅la Fleck.
    • Perpetual Motion.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Crist贸bal de Morales

    Parce mihi Domine

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.
  • William Grant Still

    Incantation and dance for oboe and piano

    Performer: Joseph Robinson. Performer: Pedja Mu啪ijevi膰.
    • Cala.
  • Georges Bizet

    La fleur que tu m'avais jet茅e (Carmen)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marco Amiliato.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Sonata in D major WoO.4 for trumpet, 2 violins and continuo

    Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Ensemble: I Musici.
    • Decca.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto in D major, H VIIb 2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Daniel M眉ller鈥怱chott. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Tognetti.
    • Haydn, Beethoven: Muller-Schott.
    • Orfeo.
    • 7.
  • Meredith Monk

    Facing North: Northern Lights 1

    Performer: Meredith Monk. Performer: Robert Een.
    • ECM.
  • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    Te deum H.146; Nos. 1-4

    Ensemble: The Harmonic Chapel. Director: Valentin Tournet.
    • Ch芒teau de Versailles Spectacles.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Seascape Op.53

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jonathan Bloxham.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Inhale

    Orchestra: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • Naxos.
  • Ola Gjeilo

    Northern Lights

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in C major K.545 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Swedish Festive Music, Op 25

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Nobel Prize Ceremony Music: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra/Davis.
    • FINLANDIA.
    • 001.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quartet no.12 in F major Op.96 'American' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Dvorak String Quartets - Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Supraphon.
    • 5.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Matin茅es musicales, Op 24 (Nos 3-5)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Britten: Young Person's Guide etc. Britten/Bonynge.
    • London.

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