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Saturday – Elizabeth Alker

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

2 hours

Last on

Sat 4 Apr 2020 07:00

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Coriolan Overture, Op 62

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Brüggen.
    • DECCA.
  • Silvestre Revueltas

    Noche de Jaranas [La Noche de las Mayas]

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G minor

    Ensemble: Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.
    • HYPERION.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Chaconne, Op 32

    Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • Carl Nielsen: Complete piano music: Martin Roscoe.
    • Hyperion.
    • 27.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Duo in G major for violin and viola, K 423 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Jane Rogers.
    • Mozart & M Haydn: Duo Sonatas.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 3.
  • Jason Singh

    Passing Light

    Performer: Jason Singh. Performer: Yazz Ahmed.
    • DK RECORDS.
  • Cesar Cui

    Scherzo, Op.82 no.1

    Orchestra: Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Kuzmich Polyansky.
    • A Feast In Time Of Plague.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 2.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Festival Coronation March

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture: Valery Gergiev.
    • Mariinsky.
    • 9.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite for solo cello No.1 in G major, BWV.1007 (Prelude)

    Performer: Thomas Dunford. Music Arranger: Thomas Dunford.
    • ALPHA.
  • Vashti Bunyan

    Here Before

    • Lookaftering.
    • FatCat Records.
    • 2.
  • Edward MacDowell

    To an old white pine [New England Idyls, Op.62]

    Performer: James Barbagallo.
    • MARCO POLO.
  • Thomas Tallis

    If ye love me

    Ensemble: The Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.
    • English Motets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Jóhann Jóhannsson

    Good Night, Day

    Performer: Hildur Guðnadóttir. Orchestra: Air Lyndhurst String Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Weeden.
    • Deutsche Gramophon.
  • Pietro Mascagni

    Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni.
    • DECCA.
  • Pietro Mascagni

    Danza esotica

    Orchestra: La Filarmonica '900. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • CHANDOS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Dove sei, amato bene (Rodelinda)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • Handel: Ombra mai fu: Andreas Scholl/Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 16.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Whispered lullaby

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Evelyn Chang.
    • AVIE.
  • Franz Danzi

    Wind Quintet in F major, Op.56`3 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin.
    • Bis.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op 46 No 8

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Brahms: Hungarian Dances &Dvorak: Slavonic Dances: Haitink.
    • Philips.
    • 18.

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