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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 3 Sep 2022 07:00

Music Played

  • Henry Purcell

    A prince of glorious race (Who can from joy refrain?)

    Singer: Raquel Andueza. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • Music For a While.
    • Erato.
    • 6.
  • Carmen Dragon

    Sur Le Pont D'Avignon

    Singer: Jean Sablon.
    • Master Classics Records.
  • Georges Bizet

    Jeux d'enfants - suite for piano duet (Op.22), no.1; L' Escarpolette (Reverie)

    Performer: John Ogdon. Performer: Brenda Lucas.
    • EMI.
  • Charles Trenet

    L'脡cole buissonni猫re

    Composer: Johnny Hess. Performer: Charles Trenet. Performer: Johnny Hess.
    • Parlophone.
  • Susan Spain-Dunk

    The Farmer's Boy

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Stephen Bell.
  • Philip Glass

    Etude no.9

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • The Glass Effect.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.
  • Philip Glass

    Etude no.13

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sheep may safely graze (Cantata No 208) arr. Stokowski

    Orchestrator: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Stokowski's Symphonic Bach.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Toivo Kuula

    Dance of the Sheep

    Performer: Adam Johnson.
    • Grand Piano.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio K.418

    Singer: Sabine Devieilhe. Orchestra: Pygmalion. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
    • ERATO.
  • Mogwai

    Visit Me

    Performer: Mogwai.
    • Rock Action Records.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg suite (Op.40) vers. for string orchestra, 1st mvt Praeludium

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • DECCA.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Alma Redemptoris Mater

    Ensemble: Sequentia.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Llio Rhydderch

    Alawon Mo虃n (Anglesey Tunes)

    Performer: Llio Rhydderch.
    • Fflach Tradd.
  • Jerome Kern

    Go Little Boat

    Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano. Singer: Joyce DiDonato.
    • ERATO.
  • Pietro Locatelli

    24 Capriccios from L'arte del violino (no.23)

    Performer: Henryk Szeryng. Performer: Charles Reiner.
    • Mercury Living Presence.
  • Oskar B枚hme

    Russian Dance

    Ensemble: Point Of Ayr Colliery Band.
    • The Music Lives On: Now the Mines Have Gone - The Best of Colliery Bands.
    • 1st Rule Records.
  • Public Service Broadcasting

    Mother of the Village

    Performer: Public Service Broadcasting.
    • PlayItAgainSam.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Serenade in D (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Odaline de la Martinez.
    • Chandos.
  • Dorothy Howell

    Prelude in C Major

    Performer: Hiroaki Takenouchi.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D for 3 horns and violin (1st mvt)

    Performer: Anthony Halstead. Performer: Christian Rutherford. Performer: Ra煤l D铆az. Performer: Simon Standage. Director: Simon Standage. Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90.
    • Telemann: Alster-Overture, Concerto in D etc.: CM90, Standage.
    • Chandos.
  • Ennio Morricone

    Cinema Paradiso (Main Theme)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Ennio Morricone.
    • Reel Chill The Cinematic Chillout Album CD1.
    • EMI.
    • 12.
  • John Dowland

    Praeludium

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • DELPHIAN.
  • Kurt Weill

    September Song

    Music Arranger: Paul Bateman. Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Jacques Ammon. Orchestra: Z眉rcher Kammerorchester.
    • Daniel Hope For Seasons.
    • DG.

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