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Saturday - Elizabeth Alker

Classical music for breakfast time plus found sounds and the odd unclassified track.

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2 hours

Last on

Sat 18 Jan 2020 07:00

Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Italian Girl in Algiers (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Rossini: Overtures: London Symphony Orchestra/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Pierre Larrieu

    Nuit d'Alger

    Singer: Jos茅phine Baker.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Reverie du soir [Suite Algerienne, Op.60]

    Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Frances Travis.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Giancarlo Bigazzi

    Le petit pain au chocolat

    Singer: Joe Dassin.
  • Claude Debussy

    D'un cahier d'esquisses

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • Debussy: Preludes/Children's Corner: Ogawa.
    • BIS.
    • 13.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Song without Words in A major, Op 62 No 6, 'Fr眉hlingslied'

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Gustav Holst

    Country Song [2 Songs without Words, Op.22 No.1]

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto in C major for flute and harp, K 299 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Konrad H眉nteler. Performer: Helga Storck. Conductor: Frans Br眉ggen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century.
    • Mozart: Complete works for flute and orchestra: Bruggen/Hunteler.
    • Philips.
    • 10.
  • Astrid Sonne

    Strong, Calm, Slow

    Singer: Astrid Sonne. Singer: Andrea Novel. Singer: Henriette Motzfeldt. Singer: Xenia Xamanek.
    • Escho.
  • Andrea Falconieri

    Passacalle 脿 3

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Lorenza Borrani. Ensemble: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 19.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Three Wonders (The Tale of Tsar Saltan Suite, Op 57)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.
  • Ciaran Algar

    De Gule Huis

    Composer: Greg Russell. Performer: Ciaran Algar. Performer: Greg Russell.
    • RootBeat Records.
  • Rachel Portman

    Meters are longer than yards [Race - Original Soundtrack]

    Orchestra: Unknown.
    • Back Lot Music.
  • Peter Warlock

    An Old Song for small orchestra

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • LYRITA.
  • Henry Purcell

    Rondeau (Abdelazar)

    Ensemble: Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Rondeaux Royaux: The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • Gra偶yna Bacewicz

    Partita for violin and piano (Rondo)

    Performer: Joanna Kurkowicz. Performer: Gloria Chien.
    • Chandos.
  • Gyda Valtysdottir

    Unborn

    Performer: Gyda Valtysdottir.
    • figureight.
  • Nicolas Gombert

    Ave Maria

    Ensemble: Brabant Ensemble. Director: Stephen Rice.
    • Tribulato et angustia 鈥 Four and five part motets by Nicolas Gombert.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt, Suite No.2: Arabian Dance

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • DECCA.
  • Ulysses Kay

    6 Dances for String Orchestra (Polka)

    Orchestra: Westphalian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • TURNABOUT.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major, BWV 1068 (Air)

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • J.S. Bach: Orchestral Music: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.

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