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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 19 Aug 2017 07:00

Music Played

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Tsar's Bride (Overture)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Naxos.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hear my Prayer

    Singer: Tom Pickard. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Performer: Douglas Tang. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • KINGS COLLEGE.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op 61 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: David Oistrakh. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Radiodiffusion Francaise. Conductor: Andr茅 Cluytens.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Three Shakespeare Songs

    Conductor: Paul Spicer. Choir: Finzi Singers.
    • Chandos.
  • Claude Debussy

    La cath茅drale engloutie (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Franz Schubert

    'Quartettsatz' in C minor, D 703

    Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • Schubert: String Quintet D956 etc: Takacs Quartet.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    6 Songs, Op. 8: I. Natur

    Singer: Anja Silja. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph von Dohn谩nyi.
    • Decca.
  • Florence Price

    Symphony No 3 in C minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: The Women鈥檚 Philharmonic. Conductor: Apo Hsu.
    • KOCH.
  • Gustav Holst

    St Paul's suite Op.29`2

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.20 in D minor, K.466 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Director: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos 20, K466 & 27, K595; Mitsuko Uchida, The Cleveland Orche.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Quartet in G minor, TWV.43:g4

    Ensemble: Florilegium.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 11.
  • Michael Gordon

    Gene Takes a Drink

    Ensemble: Bang on a Can All-Stars.
    • Cantaloupe CA21108.
    • Cantaloupe.
    • 003.

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