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Start your weekend the Radio 3 way, with Saturday Breakfast

Join Emma Clarke to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical music.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

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Sat 26 Oct 202406:30
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Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Venetian Gondola Song (Songs Without Words book 1 Op.19)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without Words in F sharp minor, Op 67 No 2

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • Claude Debussy

    Danse sacree et danse profane

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Ensemble: Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
    • Voyage.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13-14.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Quartet concertant in G minor, Op 15 No 2 (1st mvmt, Adagio)

    Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet.
    • Saint-Georges: 6 Quartetto concertans.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Se potessero i sospir' miei from Imeneo

    Singer: Philippe Jaroussky. Orchestra: Ensemble Artaserse.
    • The Handel Album.
    • Erato.
    • 1.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Barcarolle (Les contes d'Hoffmann)

    Performer: Geoffrey Saba.
    • Great piano transcriptions: Geoffrey Saba.
    • I.M.P..
    • 6.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    The Seasons - Autumn (Petit adagio)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • Russian Ballet Music.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 24.

  • Jennifer Higdon

    O magnum mysterium

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.
    • Jennifer Higdon: O magnum mysterium.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Florence Price

    String Quartet No 2 in A minor (3rd mvmt, Juba)

    Ensemble: Ragazze Quartet.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No.23 in A major, K.488 (2nd mvt: Adagio)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart Momentum - 1786.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Tobias Hume

    Hit it in the middle; The new cut; Tom and mistress fine; A Pollish ayre

    Performer: Anja Lechner.
    • ECM.

  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Symphonic dances Op.64 (no.3)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2 etc..
    • ERATO.
    • 12.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise, Op.34 no.14

    Music Arranger: David Campbell. Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Piers Lane.
    • Chandos.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A major, D 667, 'Trout' (4th mvt)

    Performer: Steven Lubin. Performer: Simon Standage. Performer: Trevor Jones. Performer: David Watkin. Performer: Amanda MacNamara. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • Schubert: Trout Quintet, 7 Lieder; Lubin, Ainsley, AAMCE.
    • Oiseau Lyre.
    • 4.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin - Lensky's Aria

    Singer: Liparit Avetisyan. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Henrik Nanasi.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue Op.10

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • NAXOS.

  • Teresa Carreño

    Un reve en mer

    Performer: Alexandra Oehler.
    • Teresa Carreno: Klavierwerke (Piano works).
    • ARS MUSICI.
    • 005.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Romance, Op 39

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • DECCA.

  • Franz Danzi

    Wind Quintet in A minor, Op 68 No1 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Michael Thompson Wind Ensemble.
    • Danzi: Wind Quintet Op.68: Michael Thompson Wind Quintet.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G minor Z.730

    Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Stefano Montanari.
    • Henry Purcell, O Solitude: Andreas Scholl/Accademia Bizantina.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Sat 26 Oct 202406:30
    BBC Radio 3