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Saturday - Victoria Meakin

Victoria Meakin presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.

Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 23 Jan 2016 07:00

Music Played

  • Sir James MacMillan

    O Radiant Dawn

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Claude Debussy

    Marche ecossaise

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • DECCA.
  • George Frideric Handel

    I know that my redeemer liveth [Messiah]

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • DECCA.
  • Lennox Berkeley

    6 Preludes for piano, Op.23

    Performer: Anthony Goldstone.
    • GAMUT CLASSICS.
  • Richard Wagner

    Tannhauser: Overture

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Concerto for horn, violin & orchestra (2nd mvt - Elegy)

    Performer: Sophie Langdon. Performer: Richard Watkins. Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Philharmonic. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Sabre Dance / Ayesha’s Dance (Gayaneh)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.
    • EMI.
  • Hans Werner Henze

    Ragtimes & Habaneras (Mvts 1-4)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
    • RCO.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Andante scherzando (String Quintet in B flat major Op.87)

    Performer: Michael Tree. Ensemble: Guarneri Quartet.
    • RCA.
  • Samuel Barber

    Nocturne: Homage to John Field

    Performer: Leon McCawley.
    • Somm.
  • Trad.

    Polegnala e Todora

    Choir: Bulgarian State TV Female Choir.
    • Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares.
    • 4AD.
    • 13.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass (BWV.232) in B minor, Part 1; Kyrie

    Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Singer: Nancy Argenta. Singer: Mary Nichols. Singer: Ashley Stafford. Singer: Wynford Evans.
    • J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor: Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 1.
  • Henri Dutilleux

    Sonata for oboe & piano (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • ERATO.
  • E.J. Moeran

    In the Mountain Country

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Jerome Kern

    Ol’ Man River (Show Boat)

    Singer: Paul Robeson.
    • EMI.

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  • Sat 23 Jan 2016 07:00

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