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Start your weekend the Radio 3 way, with Saturday Breakfast

Elizabeth Alker with a Breakfast melange of classical music, folk, found sounds and the odd Unclassified track. Start your weekend right.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 20 Jan 2024 07:00

Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • The sound of England.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 18.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in G major for 2 violas, strings and continuo

    Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Sabine Fehlandt. Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Director: Bernhard Forck.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Muzio Clementi

    Sonatina No 5 in G major for keyboard, Op 36

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • HYPERION.
  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet No. 2 in D - 1st movement; Allegro moderato

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Borodin/Smetana: String Quartet No.2/String Quartet No.1 "From My Life".
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.
  • Aaron Copland

    Rodeo: Hoe-down

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • NAXOS.
  • Nathaniel Dett

    Ave Maria

    Ensemble: VocalEssence. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • CLARION.
  • Deborah Pritchard

    Peace

    Singer: Ruby Hughes. Ensemble: Manchester Collective.
    • BIS.
  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.26 (3rd movement: Finale)

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥 Philharmonie. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Erato.
  • Trad.

    The Fair Hills of Eire, O!, Op.91

    Performer: David Quigley. Music Arranger: Amy Beach.
    • The Fair Hills of Eire: Irish Airs and Dances.
    • Heritage Records.
    • 11.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Yeomen of the Guard (Overture)

    Orchestra: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Yeoman of the Guard and Trial by Jury.
    • TELARC.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F major, BWV.1047 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Peter Holtslag. Performer: Katharina Arfken. Performer: Stephen Keavy. Ensemble: Brandenburg Consort. Director: Roy Goodman.
    • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos 1,2,3; The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony no.1 in B flat major Op.38 'Spring' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Schumann - The Symphonies.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Anna Meredith

    Heal You

    Ensemble: Juice Vocal Ensemble.
    • Nonclassical.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Prelude in C minor, Op 28 no 20

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Anonymous Brazilian

    Mateis de incendios

    Performer: Ricardo Kanji. Ensemble: Vox Brasiliensis.
    • K617.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No.9 in E flat, K.271 (3rd mvt: Rondo - Presto)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 18: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Leif Ove Andsn.
    • EMI.
  • Hamish MacCunn

    I love a lass that's fair to see from Act 1 of Jeanie Deans

    Singer: Stephen Gadd. Orchestra: 主播大秀 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • MacCunn: Land of the Mountain and the Flood: 主播大秀SSO, Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.
  • Trad.

    The Tyne Bridge Hornpipe

    Music Arranger: Kathryn Tickell. Ensemble: Kathryn Tickell Band.
    • The Kathryn Tickell Band.
    • Black Crow.
    • 1.
  • Traditional Irish

    Pigges of Rumsey-Kate of Bardie

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing. Performer: Frank McGuire.
    • The Celtic Viol 2: Savall/Lawrence-King/McGuire.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 19.
  • Charles Gounod

    Funeral march of a marionette in D minor orch. [orig. for piano]

    Orchestra: 主播大秀 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • CHANDOS.

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