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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 20 Jun 2020 07:00

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin (Act 3, Sc 1: Polonaise)

    Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • The Kirov Collection: Valery Gergiev.
    • Philips.
    • 4.
  • Henri Salvador

    Syracuse

    Singer: Yves Montand.
    • Universal.
  • Charles Trenet

    Coin de rue

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Music Arranger: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • Horizons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 15.
  • Serge Rezvani

    Le Tourbillon de la Vie

    Performer: Cyrus Bassiak (Serge Rezvani). Singer: Jeanne Moreau.
    • Philips.
  • Aaron Copland

    Letter from Home

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Four Dances from Rodeo.
    • Naxos.
    • 006.
  • Mountain Man

    AGT

    Performer: Mountain Man.
    • Nonesuch.
  • John Rutter

    Rondeau - Lyric Suite

    Performer: Catrin Finch. Orchestra: Sinfonia Cymru. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

    Performer: Juho Vartiainen. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean鈥怞acques Kantorow.
    • BIS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 13 in C major, K 415 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Director: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • John Dowland

    The Frog Galliard

    Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • The Art of the Lute - Paul O'Dette.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.
  • Julie Byrne

    Spain

    Performer: Julie Byrne.
    • Soundcloud.
  • Gustav Holst

    Brook Green Suite H.190

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • William Grant Still

    3 Visions (Summerland)

    Performer: Monica Gaylord.
    • Black Piano, A Treasury of Works for Solo Piano by Black Composers.
    • MUSIC & ARTS.
    • 2.
  • Iannis Xenakis

    Pleiades (extract)

    Ensemble: Kroumata Percussion Ensemble.
    • BIS.
  • Manos Hadjidakis

    Dream of Urban Children

    Performer: Kostas Papadopoulos. Singer: Agnes Baltsa. Orchestra: Athens Experimental Orchestra. Conductor: Stavros Xarchakos.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Roses from the South (Das Spitzentuch der K枚nigin)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • Johann Strauss: Famous Waltzes: Boskovsky.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • 罢谤盲诲

    The Last Rose of Summer

    Performer: Keith Tippett. Music Arranger: Keith Tippett.
    • Discus.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 6 in D major, BWV 1012 (Courante)

    Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.
    • J. S. Bach, The Cello Suites: Yo-Yo Ma.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (Lyric Pieces book 8 Op.65)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major, Op 20 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Israel Baker. Performer: Arnold Belnick. Performer: Joseph Stephansky. Performer: William Primrose. Performer: Virginia Majewski. Performer: Gregor Piatigorsky. Performer: Gabor Rejto.
    • RCA.

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