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Saturday - Elizabeth Alker

Elizabeth Alker with her Breakfast melange of classical music, folk, found sounds and the odd Unclassified track. Start your weekend right.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 30 Jul 2022 07:00

Music Played

  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    Tarantella (Suite for Orchestra)

    Orchestra: USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • MELODIYA.
  • Henri Salvador

    Verte compagne

    • EMI.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Pastorale for flute and piano (1942)

    Performer: Emily Beynon. Performer: Andrew West.
    • Hyperion.
  • Juliette Gr茅co

    La Fenaison

    • MERCURY.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto da camera in F major, RV 98, 'La tempesta di mare'

    Performer: Erik Bosgraaf. Ensemble: Cordevento.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
  • Julius Fucik

    Der alte Brummb盲r

    Performer: Alan Pendlebury. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Libor Pe拧ek.
    • The Moldau: RLPO/Libor Pesek.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 11.
  • Victor Bruns

    Contrabassoon Concerto, Op.98 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Hans Agreda. Orchestra: Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Conductor: Paulo Munoz-Toledo.
    • ARS PRODUKTION.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Fantasia in D minor, K.397

    Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Traditional Fijian

    Sakisaki tu ni noqu bula marau

    Ensemble: Warwick Vocal Group.
    • Arc Music.
  • William Byrd

    Ave verum corpus

    Conductor: Stephen Cleobury. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge.
    • Byrd: Motets.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 115.
  • Jon Hopkins

    Dawn Chorus

    Performer: Jon Hopkins.
    • Domino.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Dance of the Cockerels (Maskarade)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Nielsen: Aladdin-Suite, Helios U.A.: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Trad.

    Deep River arr. for violin, cello and piano

    Performer: Braimah Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason. Music Arranger: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Music Arranger: Kanneh-Mason Trio.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Don & Stevie

    Laying by the riverside

    • FINDERS KEEPERS RECORDS LTD.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Cow-Call [25 Norwegian Folk-Songs and Dances]

    Performer: Einar Steen-N酶kleberg.
    • Naxos.
  • He Luting

    The Cowherd's Flute

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Deutsche Gramophon.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Czech Suite, Op.39 (Furiant)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Joseph Swensen.
    • Linn.
  • Caroline Shaw

    Nimrod [3 Essays]

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • Evergreen.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 1.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Wiegenlied, Op.49 No.4

    Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Traditional Icelandic

    Sleep for mama

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson. Music Arranger: Snorri Sigf煤s Birgisson.
    • Winter Tales.
    • Deutsche Gramophon.
    • 3.
  • Trad. English

    Awake Awake

    Ensemble: The Full English.
    • Topic Records.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)

    Singer: Maria Callas. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Tullio Serafin.
    • EMI.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    In the Bottoms (Juba)

    Performer: Monica Gaylord.
    • Black Piano, A Treasury of Works for Solo Piano by Black Composers.
    • MUSIC & ARTS.
    • 9.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No.6 in C major, D.589 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • Solo Musica.

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