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Saturday Breakfast - 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 7 May 2022 07:00

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Tchaikovsky: Complete Orchestral Works Vol.2.
    • Philips.
    • 8.
  • Jean Renard

    Le premier bonheur du jour

    Composer: F. Gerald.
    • The Vogue Years.
    • RCA Camden.
    • 9.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Une Barque sur l'ocean (Miroirs, No.3)

    Performer: Peter Donohoe.
    • Mussorgsky: Messiaen: Ravel.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 18.
  • Charles Trenet

    Je Chante

    Composer: Paul Misraki. Singer: Charles Trenet. Orchestra: Wal-Berg's Orchestra.
    • Soldore.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 8 in A minor orch. Schollum

    Music Arranger: Robert Schollum. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Brahms: Hungarian Dances & Dvorak: Slavonic Dances: Haitink.
    • Philips.
    • 8.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No.4 in D, BWV 828; (1st mvt. Overture)

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.
  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Heyr 镁煤 oss himnum 谩 [Hear us in the heavens]

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Nathaniel Dett

    Barcarolle of Tears

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
  • 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.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet No 6 in F Minor, Op 80 (Allegro Assai)

    Ensemble: Escher Quartet.
    • BIS.
  • Eve Adams

    La Ronde

    Performer: Eve Adams.
    • Metal Birds.
    • Basin Rock.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Morning Mood (Peer Gynt - Suite No 1)

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Eivind Aadland.
    • AUDITE.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    La Poule (Concert en sextuor No 6 in G minor)

    Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Director: Christophe Rousset.
    • Decca.
  • Irving Berlin

    I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket (live)

    Orchestra: Paul Weston Orchestra.
    • Ella Fitzgerald Meets Irving Berlin.
    • UMG Recordings, Inc..
    • 13.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No 3 in D major, Op 18 No 3 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • BIS.
  • Claude Debussy

    Pagodes (Estampes)

    Music Arranger: Percy Grainger. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.
  • Shunsuke Kida

    Demon's Souls "Return to Slumber"

    Choir: London Voices. Orchestra: London Session Orchestra. Conductor: Cliff Masterson.
    • Demon's Souls (Original Soundtrack).
    • Milan.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no.1 in C major H.7b.1 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Sergio Ciomei.
    • RCA.
  • Alex Heffes

    The Final Letter

    Performer: Alex Heffes.
    • Sudden Light.
    • Silva Screen Records.
  • Sebasti谩n Aguilera de Heredia

    Ensalada

    Orchestra: Hesp猫rion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • La Capella Reial de Catalunya - 25th Anniversary.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 21.

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