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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 May 2018 07:00

Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Cello Concerto no. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107: II. Moderato

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga Gra啪inyt臈鈥怲yla.
    • Decca.
  • 脫lafur Arnalds

    1995 (Island Songs)

    Performer: Dagny Arnalds. Performer: Solveig Vaka Eyborsdottir. Performer: Asa Gudjonsdottir. Performer: Asta Kristin. Performer: 脫lafur Arnalds.
    • MERCURY.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G minor BWV.578

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • The Complete Orang Music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Patrick Doyle

    My father's favourite (Sense and Sensibility)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Ziegler.
    • Sony Classical.
  • John Tavener

    Love bade me welcome

    Performer: Roger Judd. Choir: St George's Chapel Windsor Choir. Conductor: Christopher Robinson.
    • Hyperion.
  • Clara Schumann

    Scherzo in D minor, Op 10 No 1

    Performer: Angela Cheng.
    • CBC.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G major, BWV 1049 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Henryk Szeryng. Performer: Michala Petri. Performer: Elisabeth Selin. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • J.S.Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos: Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 11.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Where'er you walk (Semele)

    Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • HELIODOR.
  • Trad.

    The Testimony of Patience Kershaw

    Singer: Jennifer Reid.
  • Ernest Tomlinson

    First Suite of English Folk-dances

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • MARCO POLO.
  • John Dowland

    Lachrimae Pavan

    Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • Kronos Quartet: Early Music.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Max Richter

    Iconography

    Performer: Louisa Fuller. Performer: Natalia Bonner. Performer: John Metcalfe. Performer: Philip Sheppard. Performer: Christopher Worsley. Performer: Max Richter.
    • DG.
  • Claude Debussy

    Valse romantique arr Laskine

    Performer: Catrin Finch. Music Arranger: Lily Laskine.
    • The Harpist: Catrin Finch.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.
  • Samuel Wesley

    Blessed be the God and Father

    Performer: Adrian Partington. Choir: Worcester Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Donald Hunt.
    • Cathedral Anthems By S S Wesley - 1.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • George Gershwin

    Strike up the Band (Overture)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Gershwin: An American in Paris: Shelley/成人快手 Phil./Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

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