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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 8 Apr 2023 07:00

Music Played

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Czech Suite Op.39 (Polka)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Joseph Swensen.
    • Dvorak: Violin concerto etc: Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Swensen.
    • Linn.
    • 5.
  • L茅o Ferr茅

    Soleils Couchants (Setting Suns)

    Performer: L茅o Ferr茅. Lyricist: Paul Verlaine.
    • BARCLAY.
  • Erik Satie

    Je te Veux

    Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.
    • ERATO.
  • L茅o Ferr茅

    Paname

    Performer: L茅o Ferr茅.
    • BARCLAY.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet no.1 in G minor Op.25 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Performer: Isaac Stern. Performer: Jaime Laredo. Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.
    • Brahms: Piano Quartets Opp. 25, 26 & 60: Ax/Stern/Laredo/Ma.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in C (from Book 1, The Well-Tempered Klavier)

    Performer: Keith Jarrett.
    • ECM.
  • George Gershwin

    I loves you Porgy

    Performer: Keith Jarrett.
    • ECM.
  • 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.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Love's Labour's Lost Op.28b (3 Soliloquies)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Decca 478 9357.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Erland Cooper

    Movement 5 - Pt. 2

    Performer: Erland Cooper. Lyricist: Simon Armitage. Singer: Simon Armitage. Singer: Josephine Stephenson. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • Folded Landscapes.
    • Mercury KX.
    • 1.
  • Gustav Holst

    A Fugal Concerto Op.40`2

    Performer: William Bennett. Performer: Peter Graeme. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Imogen Holst.
    • Holst: Brook Green Suite, Lyric Movement, Fugal Concerto: ECO, Imogen Holst.
    • Lyrita.
    • 3.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Til Varen (To the Spring)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.
  • J贸n 脕sgeirsson

    Vatnsenda-R贸sa's Verses

    Choir: The Hamrahlid Choir.
    • OLI.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Waltz: Where The Lemon Trees Bloom

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • SONY.
  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune

    Music Arranger: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: Leopold Stokowski Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.
    • EMI.
  • Benjamin Rimmer

    In the Shining Blackness

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • DECCA.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E flat major RV.253 Op.8`5 'La tempesta di mare'

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 13.
  • Henri毛tte Bosmans

    6 Preludes (no.3)

    Performer: Danny Driver.
  • Herbert Howells

    Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks

    Singer: Thomas Mullock. Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Performer: Timothy Ravalde. Director: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Howells: St John's Magnificat - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.

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