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Saturday - Elizabeth Alker

Elizabeth Alker's breakfast melange of classical music, folk, unclassified tracks, found sounds and the now 'world-famous' croissant corner. Start your Saturday right.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 23 Apr 2022 07:00

Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Tancredi (Overture)

    Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Benda.
    • Rossini: Complete Overtures . 3.
    • NAXOS.
    • 7.
  • Fred Freed

    Rendez-vous a Paris

    Performer: Maurice Chevalier.
    • DECCA.
  • Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Boulogne

    Contredanse (L'amant Anonyme)

    Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.
    • Tafelmusik.
  • Henri Salvador

    Tu fais partie de mon 茅t茅

    Performer: Henri Salvador.
    • EMI.
  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Phaeton (Chaconne)

    Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Director: Christophe Rousset.
    • APARTE.
  • Belle Chen

    Papaya Tree: Part 1

    Performer: Belle Chen.
    • EITO MUSIC.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

    Performer: David Poulter.
    • LAMMAS.
  • Philip Moore

    Paean

    Performer: Kerry Woodward.
    • HERALD.
  • 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.
  • Paul Hindemith

    March (Symphonic Metamorphosis of themes by Carl Maria von Weber)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Decca.
  • Ernest John Moeran

    To Daffodils (Songs of Springtime)

    Choir: Finzi Singers. Conductor: Paul Spicer.
    • Moeran: Song Cycles / Warlock: Songs.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Overture in D major

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
  • Amy Beach

    Scottish Legend, Op.54`1

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • GUILD.
  • Nicola Benedetti

    Ae fond kiss

    Author: Robert Burns. Music Arranger: Paul Campbell. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rory Macdonald.
    • DECCA.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Serenade in D minor for wind instruments, Op 44 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Bl盲serensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • harmoniemusik; Blaserensemble Sabine Meyer, Beethoven, Mozart, Krommer, Dvorak,.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
    • 4.
  • Caroline Shaw

    And the swallow for chorus

    Conductor: Paul Hillier. Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen.
    • ...and....
    • Naxos.
    • 101.
  • Edvard Grieg

    In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt Suite no.1)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • EMI.
  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Trollflickans Dans (Bergakungen Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • BIS.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    String Quintet in D minor (2nd movement - Prestissimo)

    Ensemble: Bartholdy Quintet.
    • AVI MUSIC.
  • John Bennet

    Venus' birds, whose mournful tunes

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Julian Behr. Ensemble: Concerto di Viole.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Steve Pycroft

    The Wandering Soul

    Performer: Steve Pycroft.
    • The Wandering Soul.
    • STEVE PYCROFT MUSIC.
    • 1.
  • Arthur Young

    It was a lover and his lass

    Singer: Cleo Laine. Ensemble: The Johnny Dankworth Seven.
    • Wordsongs: Cleo Laine.
    • Philips.
    • 5.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Danza lejana (Nights in the Gardens of Spain)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.
    • Live from the Lugano Festival 2009, Martha Argerich and friends.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

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