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Saturday - Elizabeth Alker

Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 8 Apr 2017 07:00

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Eternal source of light divine (Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne)

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Performer: Alison Balsom. Ensemble: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Sound the Trumpet.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 23 in D major, K181

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • Mozart: Symphonies 21, 23, 24, 27.
    • Erato.
    • 1-13.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Waltz in A flat major Op.38

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Dances.
    • Decca.
    • 14.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Cantique de Jean Racine

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Performer: James Vivian. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Panorama.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 22.
  • William Alwyn

    The Fallen Idol (suite): Prelude and Opening Scene; Love Scene; End Titles

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 12.
  • Astor Piazzolla

    Tango Suite for two guitars (1st movement)

    Ensemble: Katona Twins.
    • Le Grand Tango.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV1041

    Performer: Richard Tognetti. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Tognetti: Bach.
    • ABC Classics.
    • 1-3.
  • Jonathan Dove

    Arion and the Dolphin

    Choir: Dulwich Choral Society. Conductor: Aidan Oliver.
    • Private recording.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Par che mi dica ancora (Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: Orchestre de l鈥橭p茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • Stella di Napoli.
    • Erato.
    • 6.
  • Gerry Mulligan

    Lullaby of Leaves

    Ensemble: Gerry Mulligan Quartet.
    • PROPER.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 4 in F minor (3rd movement)

    Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 / Francesca da Rimini.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Traditional Polish

    Bryski

    Ensemble: Gesty Kozuch Kurzu.
    • Wild Music from the Heart of Poland.
    • The Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
    • 1.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto Polonois in B flat major, TWV43:B3 (Movements 1-2)

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Telemann: String Concertos.
    • Arkiv.
    • 5-6.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Missa brevis in F major (Hob.XXII:1)

    Singer: Judith Nelson. Singer: Emma Kirkby. Choir: Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Simon Preston.
    • Handel: Birthdya Ode and Foudling Hospital Anthem.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 15-20.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Etudes, Op. 25 Nos. 1

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Chopin Etudes.
    • Sony.
    • 1-3.
  • Traditional English

    Holey Ha'Penny / The Tyne Bridge Hornpipe

    Ensemble: The Kathryn Tickell Band.
    • The Kathryn Tickell Band.
    • BLACK CROW.
    • 1.

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