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Start your Sunday the Radio 3 way with Elizabeth Alker

Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of Sunday morning. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Sun 25 Aug 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Samuel Barber

    String Quartet in B minor, Op 11 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.
    • Barber: String Quartet: Emerson String Quartet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Hubert Parry

    Songs of Farewell: VI. Lord, Let Me Know Mine End

    Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: James O’Donnell.
    • HYPERION.
  • Hania Rani

    Prelude in C minor

    Performer: Dobrawa Czocher. Performer: Hania Rani.
    • Biała flaga.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Per Nørgård

    Pastorale (Babette's Feast)

    Orchestra: Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Juha Kangas.
    • Summer Nights.
    • Finlandia.
    • 7.
  • Max Bruch

    Kol Nidrei op.47

    Performer: Peter Moore. Performer: James Baillieu.
    • Life Force.
    • Rubicon.
    • 007.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Tristes apprêts (Castor et Pollux)

    Singer: Nadine Koutcher. Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Rameau - The Sound of Light.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 018.
  • Frederick Delius

    The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)

    Music Arranger: Thomas Beecham. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Delius Orchestral Works.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 1.
  • Michael Nyman

    The Heart Asks Pleasure First (Theme from The Piano)

    Performer: Gautier Capuçon. Performer: Jérôme Ducros. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Conductor: Adrien Perruchon.
    • Emotions.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 16.
  • Dora Pejačević

    Piano Quintet in B minor Op.40 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Oliver Triendl. Ensemble: Quatuor Sine Nomine.
    • Pejacevic: Chamber Works.
    • CPO.
    • 2.
  • Fernando Sor

    Introduction and variations on Mozart's 'O cara armonia' Op.9

    Performer: Carlos Bonell.
    • The Private Collection: Carlos Bonell.
    • Upbeat Classics.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Serenade for Strings in E major, Op 22 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Dvorak: String Serenade in E major: English Chamber Orchestra/Mackerras.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet No. 2 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • DECCA.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Kommt, ihr Tochter (Matthauspassion BWV 244)

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Choir: Staats‐ und Domchor Berlin. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • J.S. Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (Matthäus-Passion).
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 101.
  • George Butterworth

    English Idyll no.1

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle: English Rhapsody.
    • Halle.
    • 2.
  • Florence Price

    In the Land O' Cotton: Song Without Words

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • GUILD MUSIC.
  • Eric Coates

    By the Sleepy Lagoon

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Naxos.
  • James Dorman

    Colour Vision

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • KPM Main Series.
  • Amy Beach

    Piano Trio in A minor, Op.150

    Ensemble: Ambache Chamber Ensemble.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Errollyn Wallen

    Pace

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Errollyn Wallen: Peace on Earth.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 3.

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