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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.

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Sat 23 Mar 2024 07:00
麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus, K 618

    Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Mozart: Requiem.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Lark Ascending

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: 麻豆约拍 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • WARNER.

  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Les baricades mist茅rieuses

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰.
    • Sony.

  • Kate Stables

    Two Wooden Spoons

    • Two Wooden Spoons.
    • Sunday Best Recordings.
    • 1.

  • Leokadiya Kashperova

    The Murmur of the Wheat (In the Midst of Nature, No. 5)

    Performer: Sarah Cahill.
    • The Future is Female, Vol 1: In Nature.
    • FHR.
    • 7.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Septet in E flat (6th mvt)

    Ensemble: Wigmore Soloists.
    • Beethoven and Berwald: Septets.
    • BIS.
    • 106.

  • 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.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Les chemins de l'amour

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Chanson d'Amour.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 29.

  • Florence Price

    Symphony no.3 in C minor (Juba)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • George Frideric Handel

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

    Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Sixteen Orchestra. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Handel: Messiah: The Sixteen choir and orchestra/Christophers.
    • HYPERION.

  • Clara Schumann

    Scherzo no.2 in C minor Op.14

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Romance.
    • DECCA.
    • 5.

  • Shabaka Hutchings

    Teach Me How To Be Vulnerable

    Lyricist: Siyabonga Mthembu. Ensemble: Shabaka and the Ancestors.
    • We Are Sent Here By History.
    • Impulse!.
    • 11.

  • Thomas Tallis

    O nata lux

    Performer: Christian Forshaw. Music Arranger: Christian Forshaw. Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.

  • Richard Strauss

    Capriccio (Sextet)

    Ensemble: The Raphael Ensemble.
    • HELIOS.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Desert Swimmers

    Performer: Joby Burgess.
    • A Percussionist's Songbook.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.

  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen Suite no.1 (Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • The Best of Bizet.
    • Philips.
    • 12.

  • Francesca Caccini

    Romanesca

    Choir: Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini. Conductor: Gian Luca Lastraioli.
    • BRILLIANT.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto No 2 in F major, Op 102 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Dmitri Maximovich Shostakovich. Conductor: Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich. Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al.
    • Shostakovich: Piano concerto no. 2: I Musici de Montr茅al.
    • CHANDOS.

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