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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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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Sat 7 Sep 2024 06:30

Music Played

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne in B flat minor, Op 9 No 1

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Nelson Freire: Chopin, The Nocturnes.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • William Lawes

    Consort suite 'for the violls' a 6 no. 3 in F major (Sunrise)

    Performer: Paul Nicholson. Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Ernest John Moeran

    Lonely Waters [2 Pieces for small orchestra]

    Singer: Rebekah Coffey. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • E. J. Moeran: Cello Concerto / Serenade.
    • Naxos.
    • 12.
  • Edward MacDowell

    An Old Garden [New England Idyls, Op.62]

    Performer: James Barbagallo.
    • MACDOWELL: Woodland Sketches / Fireside Tales / New England Idyls.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Philip Glass

    Violin Concerto no.1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph von Dohn谩nyi.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • William Cornysh

    Ave Maria, mater Dei

    Orchestra: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Gustav Holst

    A Moorside Suite for brass band; II. Nocturne (Adagio)

    Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Garry Cutt.
    • Chandos.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 16 in C major, K 545 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Philips.
    • 1.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Ballade in A minor, Op.33 (2nd mvt: A tempo - Tranquillo e molto)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kalena Bovell.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 14.
  • Nancy Dalberg

    String Quartet No.1 in D minor (2nd mvt: Scherzo: Allegretto gracioso)

    Ensemble: Nordic String Quartet.
    • Dalberg: The String Quartets.
    • Dacapo.
    • 2.
  • Leroy Anderson

    The Syncopated Clock

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • RCA RED SEAL.
  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Viennese Musical Clock (Hary Janos Suite)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Hania Rani

    Alberto

    Performer: Hania Rani.
    • Gondwana.
  • Ethel Smyth

    The Boatswain's Mate - Overture

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Dan Godfrey - Encores.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 4.
  • Trad.

    Awake, Awake!

    Ensemble: The Full English.
    • Topic Records.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The heavens are telling (The Creation)

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Singer: Michael Schade. Singer: Gerald Finley. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Haydn: The Creation: John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 14.
  • Franz Schubert

    Polonaise No 3 in E major for piano duet, D 599

    Performer: Yaara Tal. Performer: Andreas Groethuysen.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Ernest Tomlinson

    Comedy Overture

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • British Light Music: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 001.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Humoresque in G flat major, Op.101`7

    Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler. Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Performer: Ayami Ikeba.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto, RV.501 'La notte'

    Performer: Peter Whelan. Orchestra: La Serenissima. Conductor: Adrian Chandler.
    • AVIE.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Solveigs sang [from 'Peer Gynt'], arr. for voice and piano [orig. orch. accomp.]

    Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano. Singer: Barbara Bonney.
    • DECCA.
  • Trad.

    Danza del Altiplano

    Music Arranger: Leo Brouwer. Performer: Robert Beer.
    • Cuban Landscape.
    • Koch.
    • 19.
  • H茅l猫ne de Montgeroult

    脡tude No 38 in A Minor

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • H茅l猫ne de Montgeroult: 脡tudes.
    • BIS.
    • 107.
  • Susan Spain-Dunk

    The Farmer's boy - overture for flute and strings

    Performer: Charlotte Ashton. Orchestra: 主播大秀 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Stephen Bell.

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