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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.

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Sat 9 Mar 2024 07:00
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Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

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

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • OTTAVO.

  • Claude Debussy

    Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Klaus Mäkelä.
    • Stravinsky: Petrushka; Debussy: Jeux, Prélude.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 17.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O quam mirabilis est

    Choir: Anonymous 4.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Philip Glass

    Truman Sleeps arr. Cousins for guitar

    Performer: Alexandra Whittingham.
    • DECCA CLASSICS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto no.4 in E flat major K.495 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alessio Allegrini. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos: Allegrini/Orchestra Mozart/Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Jasdeep Singh Degun

    Lament

    Performer: Sally Herbert. Performer: Simeon Walker. Performer: Ian Burdge. Music Arranger: Ian Burdge.
    • Lament.
    • Real World Records.
    • 1.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in F major, TWV 44:41

    Orchestra: La Stagione Frankfurt. Conductor: Michael Schneider.
    • CPO.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor Op.2 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet, Piano Trio, Piano Quintet.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.

  • Léo Delibes

    Sylvia - suite from the ballet: Les Chasseresses (Prelude) + Pizzicato

    Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • DECCA.

  • Hans Zimmer

    Beginnings are such delicate times (from the film 'Dune Part 2')

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • MADE BY MUTANTS.
    • MBM-004.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trio in G major (3rd mvt, Rondo all'ongarese)

    Ensemble: Kungsbacka Trio.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios Hob XV 24, 25, 26 and 31.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine (St John Passion, BWV 245)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach: Sacred Choral Works: Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 19.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1: III. Foxtrot

    Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Shostakovich: Jazz & Variety Suites.
    • BIS.
    • 103.

  • Dorothy Howell

    Three Divertissements: I

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
    • SIGCD763.

  • Maeve Gilchrist

    The Harpweaver

    Performer: Maeve Gilchrist.
    • Maeve Gilchrist (self-released).

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Introduction and Capriccio in B minor

    Performer: Martina Frezzotti.
    • Piano Classics.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Rigaudon (Holberg Suite, Op 40)

    Ensemble: Philharmonische Virtuosen Berlin.
    • Grieg: Holberg Suite/Tchaikovsky: Serenade: Philharmonische Virtuosen Berlin.
    • Teldec.
    • 9.

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