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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 22 Aug 2020 07:00

Music Played

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Happiness - Cinderella (Waltz Suite, Op.110)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Vincent Scotto

    Marinella

    Singer: Tino Rossi.
    • Able records.
  • Erik Satie

    Gnossienne no.4 'Lent'

    Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.
    • Satie: Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes & Sports et Divertissements: Anne Queffelec.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.
  • Jean F茅line

    Coucou

    Composer: Roger Henry Bertrand. Composer: Antonio Matas. Performer: Django Reinhardt. Singer: Josette Dayd茅. Ensemble: Quintette du Hot Club de France.
    • Django Reinhardt 1940.
    • Classics.
    • 13.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Italian Girl in Algiers: Overture (arr. for wind ensemble)

    Music Arranger: Wenzel Sedlak. Ensemble: Netherlands Wind Ensemble.
    • PHILIPS.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Andante (Variation)

    Performer: Garreth Broke.
    • BANDCAMP.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Romanian Folk Dances

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Bartok: Orchestral Works Vol.1: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 8.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet in E flat major, K 452 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.
    • EMI.
  • Sam Shepherd

    Requiem for CS70 and Strings

    Performer: Floating Points.
    • Ninja Tune.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Fugue; Air

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Kenneth Sillito.
    • CAPRICCIO.
  • Claude Debussy

    Jeux de vagues (La mer)

    Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Debussy: La Mer: Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • Belle Chen

    Tides

    Performer: Belle Chen.
    • Eito Music.
  • Percy Grainger

    Country Gardens

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.
  • George Gershwin

    Stiff Upper Lip

    Singer: Ella Fitzgerald. Orchestra: Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra.
    • VERVE.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Aria (Goldberg Variations)

    Performer: Jeremy Denk.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610): Ave Maris Stella

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Singer: Emily Van Evera. Singer: Nigel Rogers. Ensemble: Taverner Consort. Director: Andrew Parrott.
    • EMI.
  • Michael Tippett

    Concerto for Double String Orchestra (3rd mvt)

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

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