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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 17 Feb 2024 07:00

Music Played

  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Tarantelle Op.6

    Performer: Susan Milan. Performer: James Campbell. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Saint-Saëns: Africa.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 8.
  • Frederick Delius

    Irmelin (Act 1 Prelude)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
  • Traditional Norway

    Old Reinlender (Sonndala)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • dacapo.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Waltz in A flat major, Op 39 No 15

    Performer: Catrin Finch. Music Arranger: Catrin Finch.
    • Lullabies.
    • DG.
    • 10.
  • Florence Price

    Whirl Away Waltz

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Guild.
  • Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello

    Sinfonia for strings in D major, Op.1 No.2

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Dance of the Tumblers (The Snow Maiden)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Orchestral Suites.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Carlos Gardel

    Por una cabeza (transcr. for solo violin & chamber orchestra)

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Benjamin Günst. Performer: Omar Massa. Performer: Jacques Ammon. Performer: Joscho Stephan. Performer: Stéphane Logerot.
    • Dance!.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 15.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Missa in angustiis 'Nelson Mass' (Gloria)

    Performer: Simon Preston. Singer: Sylvia Stahlman. Singer: Helen Watts. Singer: Wilfred Brown. Singer: Tom Krause. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.
    • DECCA.
  • Manu Delago

    Polar Bear

    Ensemble: Mad About Lemon.
    • Snow from yesterday.
    • ONE LITTLE INDEPENDENT RECORDS.
    • 3.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Study in A flat major, Op.25 no.1

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Chopin: Etudes Op.10 & Op.25: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in G minor Op.46 no.8

    Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Tomáš Brauner.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Don Giovanni (Overture)

    Orchestra: Norwegian National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Mozart: Overtures: Norwegian National Opera Orchestra/Alessandrini.
    • Naive.
    • 15.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Trio sonata No.3 in D major for 2 violins/flutes and continuo [1695]

    Ensemble: Bach Players.
    • Coviello.
  • Aukai

    La Joya - vers. for recorder ensemble

    Performer: Aukai. Performer: Daphna Mor. Performer: Jamshied Sharifi.
    • La Joya.
    • aukaimusic.
    • 1.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Joyeuse marche

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Tortelier's French Bonbons: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic/Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C sharp minor

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz. Music Arranger: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • Vladimir Horowitz The Indespensable.
    • BMG Classics.
    • 11.
  • Traditional Spiritual

    We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace

    Music Arranger: Undine Smith Moore. Choir: VocalEssence Ensemble Chorus. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • CLARION.
  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C major (3rd mvmt, Scherzo and Trio)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: François Leleux.
    • LINN.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Piano Trio in E minor (2nd & 3rd mvts)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Chandos.
  • George Harrison

    Here comes the sun

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Music Arranger: Christopher Austin. Ensemble: Navarra String Quartet.
    • Mercury.
  • Edward MacDowell

    Piano Concerto No.2 in D minor, Op.23 (2nd mvt: Presto giocoso)

    Performer: André Watts. Orchestra: Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • MacDowell: Piano Concerto No. 2 - Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Telarc.
    • 2.

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