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Start your weekend the Radio 3 way, with Saturday Breakfast

Join Elizabeth Alker to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical music.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Sat 15 Jun 202406:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A Major K.581 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.
    • Mozart & Weber Quintets.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
    • 5.

  • Jean Sibelius

    The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkainen suite Op.22)

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • BIS.

  • Clara Schumann

    Three Romances, Op.22

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: John Lenehan.
    • C. Schumann; Smyth; Beach.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 5-7.

  • John Rutter

    Requiem: III. Pie Jesu

    Singer: Caroline Ashton. Conductor: John Rutter. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Choir: The Cambridge Singers.
    • Rutter: Requiem & Magnificat.
    • Collegium.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No.2 in C minor, BWV 826: II. Allemande

    Performer: Parker Ramsay.
    • The Street: Nico Muhly & Alice Goodman.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No 2 in C minor for keyboard, BWV 826 (Courante)

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • J.S. Bach: 6 Partitas, BWV 825-830, Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
    • 10.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No 2 in C minor for keyboard, BWV 826 (Sarabande)

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • J.S. Bach: 6 Partitas, BWV 825-830, Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
    • 11.

  • Amy Beach

    Piano Quintet in F minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson. Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Hyperion.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore)

    Singer: Rolando Villazón. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Daniele Callegari.
    • Rolando Villazon: Tenor.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 10.

  • Josef Suk

    At Noon (Summer Moods, Op 22b)

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Suk: Piano Works: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.

  • Florence Price

    Clouds

    Performer: Lara Downes.
    • Flipside Music.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor, Op.2 (2nd mvt: Andante con moto)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Chandos.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, H.7e.1 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Haydn, Hummel etc: Trumpet Concertos: Alison Balsom.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Eduardo Mata.
    • Music of Manuel De Falla: Simon Bolivar Symophony Orchestra, Mata, Senn.
    • Dorian.
    • 1.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Choir: Chapelle du Roi. Conductor: Alistair Dixon.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D minor, Kk.9

    Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.
    • DECCA.

  • Alina Bzhezhinska

    Reflections

    Performer: Alina Bzhezhinska. Ensemble: HipHarpCollective.
    • Reflections.
    • BBE Music.
    • 4.

  • César Franck

    Sonata in A major M.8 for cello and piano: 4th mvt; Allegretto poco mosso

    Performer: Daniel Müller‐Schott. Performer: Robert Kulek.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Ewan MacColl

    Dirty old town

    Music Arranger: Kate St John. Singer: Peggy Seeger. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Heron.

  • Henry Purcell

    Suite from Abdelazer

    Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Director: Roy Goodman.
    • The Complete Ayres for the Theatre.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • John Rutter

    5 Childhood Lyrics - II. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • COLLEGIUM.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 1 in G minor

    Music Arranger: Miska Borzó. Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Christoph Koncz. Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Stephan Koncz. Performer: Ödön Rácz. Performer: Oszkár Ökrös.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

Broadcast

  • Sat 15 Jun 202406:30
    BBC Radio 3