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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, 30 minutes

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Sat 24 Aug 2024 06:30
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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite no. 4 in D minor

    Performer: Thomas Dunford. Performer: Jupiter String Quartet.
    • Erato.
    • 5419719677.

  • Mel Bonis

    Soir et matin Op.76 for piano trio

    Performer: Barbara Moser. Performer: David Geringas. Performer: Thomas Albertus Irnberger.
    • GRAMOLA.
    • 99225.

  • John Ireland

    Ballerina

    Performer: Piers Lane.
    • Hyperion.
    • CDA 67967.

  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Concerto in E minor D.57 for violin and orchestra

    Conductor: Andrea Marcon. Performer: Chouchane Siranossian. Performer: Venice Baroque Orchestra.
    • ALPHA.
    • 596.

  • Franz Schubert

    Winterreise - song-cycle D.911: no.24; Der Leiermann

    Performer: Anthony Romaniuk.
    • ALPHA.
    • ALPHA631.

  • Gerald Finzi

    5 Bagatelles (Op.23), arr. L.Ashmore for clarinet and ensemble: no.3; Carol

    Conductor: Howard Griffiths. Performer: Robert Plane. Performer: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • NAXOS.
    • 8553566.

  • Josephine Lang

    Mazurka Op.49 No 2

    Performer: Ian Tindale.
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ RECORDING.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no. 25 in G minor K.183: Andante; Menuetto

    Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington. Performer: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • SWR MUSIC.
    • SWR19526CD.

  • Bonnie β€œPrince” Billy

    When thy song

    Performer: Bonnie β€œPrince” Billy. Performer: Bryce Dessner. Performer: eighth blackbird.
    • DOMINO.
    • RUG81CD.

  • Arvo PΓ€rt

    7 Advent (Magnificat) antiphons for chorus: Morgenstern

    Conductor: Stephen Layton. Performer: Polyphony.
    • HYPERION.
    • CDA66960.

  • Gabriel FaurΓ©

    Pelleas et Melisande - suite Op.80: Sicilienne

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Mariko Anraku.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
    • 557739 2.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    13 Preludes Op.32 for piano: no.5 in G major

    Performer: Ruth Slenczynska.
    • DECCA.
    • 4852255.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Quartet in D major Op.64 No.5 (Lark) for strings: Allegro; Adagio

    Performer: Hagen String Quartet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4236222.

  • William Grant Still

    Song for the lonely for oboe and piano

    Performer: Lara Downes. Performer: Titus Underwood.
    • RISING SUN RECORDS.
    • RS002.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no. 6 in B flat major BWV.1051: 1st movement

    Conductor: John Butt. Performer: Dunedin Consort.
    • LINN RECORDS.
    • CKR 430.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Concerto no. 1 in E minor Op.11 for piano and orchestra: Larghetto

    Conductor: Elim Chan. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Decca.
    • 4850365.

  • Traditional English

    Scarborough Fair

    Music Arranger: Simon Parkin. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: PlΓ­nio Fernandes.
    • Decca.
    • 4850241.

  • Debbie Wiseman

    Wilde - suite from music for the film

    Conductor: Debbie Wiseman. Performer: Studio Orchestra.
    • Music Collection International.
    • MPRCD001.

  • Nils Frahm

    4:33

    Performer: Nils Frahm.
    • LateNightTales.
    • ALNCD42.

  • John Cage

    4 Dances (What so proudly we hail) – Dance No.3

    Performer: ZoltΓ‘n Kocsis.
    • HUNGAROTON.
    • HCD 31847.

  • Karl Jenkins

    The Armed man - a mass for peace: Benedictus

    Composer: Karl Jenkins. Performer: Guy Johnston. Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: National Youth Choir.
    • DECCA.
    • 4817826.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Trio no. 22 in D major: Andantino, Allegro Assai

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Performer: L'Europa Galante Trio.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • 212149-2.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C major Kk.159 (The Hunt)

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • BIS.
    • BIS2138.

  • George Gershwin

    Porgy and Bess: Summertime

    Performer: Ella Fitzgerald. Performer: Louis Armstrong.
    • VERVE.
    • B0009790-02.

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  • Sat 24 Aug 2024 06:30
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