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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 29 May 2021 07:00

Music Played

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Valse-fantasie in B minor, arr. for orchestra [orig. for piano]

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Georges Krier

    La Valse brune

    Singer: Juliette Gr茅co.
    • Phillips.
  • Benjamin Godard

    Valse [Suite de Trois Morceaux, Op.116]

    Performer: Susan Milan. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Jacques Brel

    La Valse a mille temps

    Singer: Jacques Brel.
    • Phillips.
  • Giovanni Battista Sammartini

    Concerto a piu Stromenti in E flat, J.73 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • AVIE.
  • Lionel Bart

    Who will buy? [Oliver!]

    Performer: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • RCA.
  • Gwenllian Llyr

    Strawberry Moon

    Performer: Gwenllian Llyr.
    • O Wyll I Wawr (Dusk To Dawn).
    • Sain.
    • 4.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Humoresque in G flat major, Op 101 No 7

    Performer: Radoslav Kvapil.
    • Dvorak: Piano Works Vol.4.
    • Supraphon.
    • 8.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    In the Bottoms (Honey (Humoresque))

    Performer: Monica Gaylord.
    • Black Piano, A Treasury of Works for Solo Piano by Black Composers.
    • MUSIC & ARTS.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.29 in A major K.201 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Symphonies; SCO; Sir Charles Mackerras.
    • Linn.
    • 4.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Hungarian Folksongs: No.4

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Andrew Armstrong.
    • CHANDOS CHAN.
  • Max Cooper

    Reflect

    Performer: Max Cooper.
    • Mesh.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    The Song of Hiawatha (Overture)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Georges Bizet

    Le Volant [Jeux d'Enfants, Op.22]

    Ensemble: John Ogdon. Ensemble: Brenda Lucas.
    • EMI.
  • Erik Satie

    Le Tennis [Sports et divertissements]

    Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Lucinda Chua

    An Avalanche

    Performer: Lucinda Chua.
    • JUNO RECORDS.
  • Florence Price

    Song for snow

    Choir: VocalEssence. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • CLARION.
  • Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Disappearance of Snow [White Landscapes, Op.47a]

    Performer: Kate Wilson. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Sachio Fujioka.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Arthur Russell

    I never get lonesome

    Performer: Arthur Russell. Performer: Frank Pagano. Singer: Arthur Russell. Singer: Ernie Brooks.
    • Audika.
  • Philip Glass

    Company III

    Ensemble: Manchester Collective.
    • Bedroom Community.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Anitra's Dance (Peer Gynt Suite no.1, Op.46)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Grieg/Nielsen: Peer Gynt/Aladdin: San Francisco Symphony/Blomstedt.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Harald S忙verud

    The Devil's Five-Hop (Peer Gynt Music, Op 28)

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • NORWEGIAN CLASSICAL FAVOURITES VOL.2.
    • NAXOS.
    • 001.
  • Anonymous

    Tarantella del Gargano

    Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Grande Tarantelle, Op.67

    Performer: Michael Gurt. Orchestra: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Rosenberg.
    • Naxos.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty (Waltz)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Tchaikovsky: Ballet highlights: LSO/Previn.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.

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