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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.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 30 Mar 2024 07:00

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations BWV.988: Aria and Variations 1-2

    Performer: Víkingur Ólafsson.
    • Goldberg Variations.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Frederick Delius

    On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

    Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Classical Tranquillity.
    • Collegium.
    • 3.
  • Sir James MacMillan

    O Radiant Dawn

    Choir: Apollo5.
    • VCM RECORDS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op.64`5 'The Lark' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • AVI MUSIC.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Unsent love letters

    Performer: Tamara Anna Cislowska.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Act I: No.10, Scene)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 106.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Dance of the Cygnets (Swan Lake, Op 20)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 201.
  • Maddalena Laura Sirmen

    String Quartet No 5 in F major (4th mvmt, Minuetto)

    Ensemble: La magnifica comunità.
    • Lombardini Sirmen: String Quartets Nos. 1-6.
    • Tactus.
    • 504.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 41, K. 551 "Jupiter" (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 202.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Folk songs from Somerset (English Folk Song Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • Holst/Vaughan Williams: British Wind Band Classics: Timothy Reynish.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Seventeen come Sunday (English Folk Song Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • Holst/Vaughan Williams: British Wind Band Classics: Timothy Reynish.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.
  • Jean Sibelius

    The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkäinen Suite, Op.22)

    Orchestra: 鶹Լ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas Søndergård.
    • Sibelius.
    • Linn Records.
    • 3.
  • Valerie Coleman

    Afro-Cuban Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Imani Winds.
    • Koch International Classics.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Menuets en rondeau (Les Paladins)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Gustav Leonhardt.
    • Rameau: Suite Les Paladins: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Leonhardt.
    • Philips.
    • 9.
  • Nainita Desai

    My Mind is Still

    Performer: Thomas Gould. Performer: Leif Kaner‐Lidström. Performer: Elsa Bradley. Music Arranger: Geoff Lawson. Choir: VOCES8.
    • Infinity.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Wiener Blut

    Orchestra: Vienna Volksoper Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Bauer-Theussl.
    • Strauss: Walzes: Vienna Volksoper Orch/Bauer-Theussl.
    • PHILIPS.
    • 002.
  • Clara Schumann

    Romance in B flat major, Op.22 no.3

    Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Lisa Batiashvili plays Brahms & C. Schumann.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Henry Purcell

    When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas)

    Orchestrator: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: José Serebrier.
    • NAXOS.

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