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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 6 Feb 2021 07:00

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for Strings Op.48 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Serge Gainsbourg

    La Javanaise

    Performer: Juliette Gr茅co.
    • Philips.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Mouvement perpetuel No 3

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅.
    • Poulenc: Piano Works: Pascal Roge.
    • Decca.
  • Jacques Brel

    Les Prenoms de Paris

    Performer: Orchestre de la Garde r茅publicaine. Performer: G茅rard Jouannest. Choir: Ch艙ur de l鈥檃rm茅e fran莽aise.
    • Warner.
  • Franz Schubert

    Trio [in one movement] in B flat, D.28

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Leroy Anderson

    The Typewriter

    Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • MERCURY.
  • Juan de Araujo

    Ay Andar

    Choir: Ex Cathedra. Director: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • HYPERION.
  • Will Gregory

    Lost Bronze

    Ensemble: Borealis Saxophone Quartet.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Music Arranger: Jesse Diener-Bennett. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Orchestra: The Knights. Conductor: Eric Jacobsen.
    • Golijov: Azul.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 102.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.41 in C major K.551 'Jupiter' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Green-House

    Soft Meadow

    • Leaving Records.
  • 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.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 851 (The Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1)

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier I: Andras Schiff.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    O cessate di piagarmi (Il Pompeo)

    Music Arranger: Nora Fischer. Music Arranger: Marnix Dorrestein. Singer: Nora Fischer. Performer: Marnix Dorrestein.
    • HUSH.
    • DG.
    • 1.
  • John Philip Sousa

    Follow the Swallow

    Ensemble: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Brion.
    • NAXOS.
  • Frederick Delius

    On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Delius: Orchestral Works: London Philharmonic Orchestra/Handley.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
    • 2.
  • Edvard Grieg

    To the Spring (Lyric Pieces, Op.43)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in E minor, RV 134

    Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Simon Standage.
    • Vivaldi: String Concertos, Vol. 3 - Collegium Musicum 90/Standage.
    • Chandos.
  • William Walton

    Henry V: Epilogue

    Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Chandos.

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