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Start your weekend the Radio 3 way, with Saturday Breakfast

Join Emma Clarke to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical music.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Sat 11 Jan 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Arabeske in C major Op.18

    Performer: Simone Dinnerstein.
    • Undersong.
    • Orange Mountain Music.
    • 2.
  • Alfred Momotenko-Levitsky

    Miracle

    Choir: Latvian Radio Choir. Conductor: Sigvards K募ava.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
  • Frederick Delius

    On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

    Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Classical Tranquillity.
    • Collegium.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Widerstehe doch der S眉nde (Cantata BWV.54)

    Music Arranger: V铆kingur 脫lafsson. Music Arranger: V铆kingur 脫lafsson. Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Johann Sebastian Bach.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 11.
  • Jules Massenet

    Tha茂s (Meditation arr Salzedo)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Mariko Anraku. Music Arranger: Carlos Salzedo.
    • Beau Soir, French and Japanese melodies: Pahud/Anraku.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • John Foulds

    Cello Concerto in G major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Yates.
    • Dutton.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Simple Prayer for Complex Times

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • Love at Last.
    • Pentatone.
    • 17.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    L'ajo nell'imbarazzo, A. 11, Act I Scene 2: Cavatina. Basso, basso il cor mi dic

    Lyricist: Jacopo Ferretti. Singer: Alessandro Corbelli. Orchestra: Donizetti Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Vincenzo Milletar矛.
    • Donizette: L'ajo nell'imbarazzo, A. 11.
    • Naxos.
    • 104.
  • Richard Wagner

    Tristan und Isolde, S. 447: Isoldens Liebestod

    Performer: Jeremy Denk. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt.
    • C.1300 - C.2000.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 10.
  • 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.
  • Debbie Wiseman

    The Mirror and the Light

    Conductor: Debbie Wiseman. Ensemble: Locrian Ensemble.
    • Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light (Original Television Soundtrack).
    • Silva Screen Records.
    • 18.
  • Vincent Youmans

    Tahiti Trot, Op 16

    Orchestrator: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Ballets Russes.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 012.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Va tacito (Giulio Cesare)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Handel: Ombra mai fu: Andreas Scholl, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    January (The Year)

    Performer: Lauma Skride.
    • Sony.
  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    L'Amant anonyme, Act I: Overture

    Orchestra: Haymarket Opera Company. Conductor: Craig Trompeter.
    • Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges: L'Amant anonyme.
    • Cedille.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major, D.803 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Emma Johnson. Performer: Chris West. Performer: Philip Gibbon. Performer: Michael Thompson. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.
    • Somm.
  • Gustav Holst

    A Moorside Suite

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in G Op.3`3

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Libertango

    Music Arranger: Luis Bacalov. Performer: Luis Bacalov. Performer: H茅ctor Ulises Passarella. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • Bacalov: Misa Tango: Domingo, Martinez, Bacalov, Chung.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

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  • Sat 11 Jan 2025 06:30

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