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Start your weekend the Radio 3 way, with Saturday Breakfast

Join Mark Forrest to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical and Christmas music.

Join Mark Forrest to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical and Christmas music, including Corelli's Christmas Concerto, Greensleeves by Vaughan Williams and two Mozarts on a sleighride! And it's time to open the 14th door on our Radio 3 Breakfast Advent Calendar.

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Sat 14 Dec 202406:30
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Music Played

  • John Tavener

    The Lamb

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Signum Records.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Helios - overture Op.17

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Director: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Nielsen: Symphony No. 4.
    • CBS.
    • 5.

  • Josephine Lang

    Waltz

    Performer: Ian Tindale.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso No. 8 in G Minor, Op. 6 'Fatto per la notte di Natale': Mvs 3-6

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Conductor: Amandine Beyer.
    • Corelli: The Complete Concerti Grossi.
    • Zig-Zag Territoires.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.
    • Homage: James Ehnes.
    • Onyx.
    • 19.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no.1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Elim Chan.
    • DECCA.

  • Florence Price

    String Quartet in G Major: II. Andante moderato - Allegretto

    Ensemble: Pacifica Quartet.
    • American Voices.
    • Cedille Records.
    • 106.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sleigh Ride (3 German Dances K.605)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Leopold Mozart

    A musical sleigh ride

    Music Arranger: Philip Lane. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • The Night Before Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Maria Szymanowska

    Nocturne in B flat major

    Performer: Anna Ciborowska.
    • DUX.

  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    White Landscapes Op.47a for chamber orchestra

    Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • Chandos.

  • Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band

    Sans Day Carol

    • A Tapestry of Carols.
    • Saydisc.

  • Béla Bartók

    2 Romanian Dances (Polka and Fast Dance)

    Performer: Linus Roth. Performer: José Gallardo. Music Arranger: Zoltán Székely.
    • Evil Penguin.

  • Percy Grainger

    Handel in the Strand

    Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Claude Debussy

    Des pas sur la neige (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • Debussy: Preludes/Children's Corner: Ogawa.
    • BIS.
    • 6.

  • Claude Debussy

    The Snow is Dancing (Children's Corner, No. 4)

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • Debussy: The Solo Piano Works: Noriko Ogawa.
    • BIS.
    • 20.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Christmas Overture (The Forest of Wild Thyme Op.74)

    Music Arranger: Sydney Baynes. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • The Night Before Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 1 in G major, BWV 1007 arr. for guitar

    Performer: Ángel Romero.
    • Angel Romero plays Bach: Transcriptions for guitar.
    • Telarc.
    • 1.

  • John Joubert

    There is no Rose

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • Richard Wagner

    Spinning Chorus (The Flying Dutchman)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Louis Lortie.
    • Liszt at the Opera.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Franz Schubert

    Quintet in C, D 956 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Laura van der Heijden. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.

  • Robert Schumann

    Freundliche Landschaft (Waldszenen, Op.82)

    Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland.
    • SIMAX.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Dance of the tumblers (Snow maiden - suite)

    Music Arranger: WIlfred Heaton. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • CHANDOS.

Broadcast

  • Sat 14 Dec 202406:30
    BBC Radio 3