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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 11 Feb 2023 07:00

Music Played

  • Georges Bizet

    L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Carmen)

    Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Choir: Berlin Opera Chorus. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Bizet: Carmen: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 7.
  • Rivgauche Dumont

    Les mots d'amour

  • Ernest Chausson

    Po猫me de l'amour et de la mer, Op.19 - Interlude

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Alexandre Bloch.
  • Henri Contet

    Adieu Mon C艙ur

    Composer: Marguerite Angele Monnot.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 45; II. Allegretto espressivo alla romanza

    Performer: Daniel M眉ller鈥怱chott. Performer: Herbert Schuch. Music Arranger: Daniel M眉ller鈥怱chott.
    • Edvard Grieg: Cello Works.
    • Orfeo.
    • 202.
  • Hildur Gu冒nad贸ttir

    Always (Women Talking)

    Performer: Hildur Gu冒nad贸ttir.
  • Max Richter

    Mercy

  • George Butterworth

    Loveliest of trees [6 Songs from "A Shropshire Lad"]

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • NAXOS.
  • Caroline Shaw

    The Beech Tree - from Plan & elevation: The Grounds of Dumbarton Oaks (5th mvt)

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • NONESUCH.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Concerto in D major K.314 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Wolfgang Schulz. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Conductor: Leopold Hager.
    • Mozart: The complete wind concertos.
    • Teldec.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in E flat major, K 252 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.
  • Weyes Blood

    Grapevine

    Performer: Weyes Blood.
    • SUB POP RECORDS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Coriolan Overture, Op 62

    Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Brahms: Symphony 4; Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 1.
  • Sergey Taneyev

    Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 30 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Piers Lane. Ensemble: Goldner String Quartet.
    • Taneyev; Arensky - Piano Quintets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Dani Carvalho

    Tchintchirote

    Singer: Ces谩ria 脡vora.
    • LUSAFRICA.
  • Pipita Bettencourt

    Homenagem

    Ensemble: Simentera.
    • LUSAFRICA.
  • William Byrd

    Ave verum corpus (Gradualia Vol 1)

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Director: Martin Baker.
    • Byrd: The Three Masses; Ave Verum Corpus.
    • Hyperion.
    • 19.
  • Steve Reich

    Duet

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Simos Papanas. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Claude Debussy

    Minuet from Petite suite for piano duet

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Cristina Marton.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Theodora, HWV 68, Act 1: "As With Rosy Steps the Morn" (Irene)

    Ensemble: Jupiter. Conductor: Thomas Dunford.
    • Eternal Heaven.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita no.2 in C minor, BWV.997 (Sarabande)

    Music Arranger: Unnamed arranger. Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Delphian.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gavotte (Violin Partita No.3. BWV.1006)

    Music Arranger: Sergey Rachmaninov. Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • DG.
  • Trad.

    Traditional: A Worcester Ladymass - Gloria

    Lyricist: Trad.. Ensemble: Trio Medi忙val.
    • A Worcester Ladymass.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 3.

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