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Start your weekend the Radio 3 way, with Saturday Breakfast

Join Mark Forrest to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical and Christmas music.

Join Mark Forrest to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical and Christmas music, including Bach played by brass, a snowy scene from Florence Price and two versions of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker! And it's time to open the 7th door on our Radio 3 Breakfast Advent Calendar.

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Music Played

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Pavane, Op 50

    Orchestra: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. Conductor: Michel Plasson.
    • EMI.

  • Juan de Araujo

    Silencio

    Ensemble: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Fire Burning In Snow.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Florence Price

    Song for Snow

    Performer: Paul Shaw. Choir: VocalEssence Chorus. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • Got the Saint Louis Blues.
    • Clarion.
    • 003.

  • Shabaka Hutchings

    To the moon

    Performer: Shabaka Hutchings. Performer: Andr茅 3000.
    • Possesion.
    • Impulse! Records.
    • 3.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet No. 2 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • DECCA.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu bleibet meine Freude (Jesu, joy of man's desiring)

    Ensemble: Empire Brass.
    • A Bach Festival.
    • Angel Records.
    • 9.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Sunrise Mass: II. Sunrise

    Choir: Westminster Williamson Voices. Orchestra: Sunrise Mass Orchestra. Conductor: James Jordan.
    • Ola Gjeilo: Sunrise Mass.
    • GIA ChoralWorks.
    • 2.

  • Franz Liszt

    Chasse-neige (Transcendental Etudes, No. 12)

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Liszt: 12 脡tudes d'ex茅cution transcendante.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 12.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Ensemble: Wiener Streichsextett.
    • 100 Best Relaxing Classics.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.

  • Brian Eno

    The Chill Air

    Composer: Harold Budd. Performer: Brian Eno. Performer: Harold Budd.
    • Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror.
    • Editions EG.
    • 7.

  • Henry Purcell

    What pow'r art thou (King Arthur Z.628)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Stefano Montanari.
    • Henry Purcell, O Solitude: Andreas Scholl/Accademia Bizantina.
    • Decca.
    • 6.

  • H茅l猫ne de Montgeroult

    Piano Etude Nos. 26, 82, 41 and 111

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • Helene de Montgeroult: Etudes.
    • BIS.
    • 6.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Sonatina in G major, Op 100 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mischa Maisky. Performer: Pavel Gililov.
    • Strauss/Dvorak: Morgen: Mischa Maisky/Pavel Gililov.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Simple Symphony, Op 4

    Orchestra: Camerata Nordica. Director: Terje T酶nnesen.
    • Benjamin Britten - Music for String Orchestra.
    • Bis.
    • 012.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 8 in F major, Op 93 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Singer: Charlotte Margiono. Singer: Rudolf Schasching. Singer: Birgit Remmert. Singer: Robert Holl. Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Conductor: Erwin Ortner.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.
    • 7.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Ballade in B major, Op 10 No 4

    Performer: Jonathan Plowright.
    • Brahms: Works for Piano.
    • BIS.
    • 204.

  • George Frideric Handel

    All we, like sheep, have gone astray (Messiah)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Handel: Messiah: Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
    • Philips.

  • Nadia Boulanger

    3 Pieces

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Performer: Jos茅 Gallardo.
    • French Cello Sonatas.
    • Naxos.
    • 2-4.

  • David McGregor

    O Oriens

    Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Conductor: Toby Ward.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • The Rachmaninov Experience.
    • Warner Classics and Jazz.

  • Wakefield

    The Holly And The Ivy

    • Christmas Album.
    • Vex.
    • 7.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: I. March

    Music Arranger: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Nutcracker Suite.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 201.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Peanut Brittle Brigade

    Performer: Duke Ellington. Music Arranger: Duke Ellington. Ensemble: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
    • Nutcracker Suite.
    • Supreme Media.
    • 3.

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