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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 3 Feb 2018 07:00

Music Played

  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Heyr pu oss himnum 谩

    Choir: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis. Conductor: Horbur Akselsson.
    • BIS.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer night's dream , Op.61 (Nocturne)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Franz Liszt

    Miserere du Trovatore transc Liszt

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Barenboim, Live at the Scala, Liszt.
    • Warner Classics and Jazz.
    • 7.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D major, RV.92

    Performer: Dan Laurin. Performer: Jonas Nordberg. Performer: Anna Paradiso. Conductor: Jan Bjoranger. Orchestra: 1B1.
    • BIS.
  • Erland Cooper

    Maalie over Marwick Heaad

    Performer: Erland Cooper.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Tom Poster. Music Arranger: Alison Balsom. Music Arranger: Tom Poster.
    • Alison Balsom - L茅gende - Tom Poster.
    • Warner.
    • 7.
  • Louis Spohr

    Concerto for clarinet and orchestra No.2 in E flat, Op.57 (2nd movement)

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Kenneth Sillito.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps (Overture)

    Conductor: Andr茅 Previn. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Vaughan Williams: Symphony no.2 etc: LSO/Previn.
    • RCA.
    • 6.
  • Agostino Steffani

    Sfere amiche (Niobe, regina di Tebe)

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Director: Stephen Stubbs. Orchestra: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra. Director: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • ERATO.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor, Op.2: 3rd movement; Scherzo: Allegro

    Performer: John Fadial. Performer: Janet Orenstein. Performer: Scott Rawls. Performer: Brooks Whitehouse. Performer: Andrew Harley. Performer: Mary Ashley Barret. Performer: Michael Burns. Performer: Kelly Burke. Performer: Lynn Huntzinger Beck.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Chamber Music.
    • CENTAUR.
    • 11.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in B minor, Opus 126 No 4

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Alfred Brendel plays, vol.4.
    • Vox Box.
    • 4.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in G major, Op.126 no.5

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Alfred Brendel plays, vol.4.
    • Vox Box.
    • 5.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in E flat major, Op 126 No 6

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Alfred Brendel plays, vol.4.
    • Vox Box.
    • 6.
  • Antonio Bertali

    Sonata a 4 in D minor

    Performer: Gawain Glenton. Performer: Silas Wollston. Performer: Richard Boothby. Performer: Emily White. Performer: Bojan 膶i膷i膰.
    • DELPHIAN.
  • Silvestre Revueltas

    La noche de los mayas (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring: Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 15.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scherzino (Four Pieces, Op.11)

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Russian Piano Music: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.

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