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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 27 May 2023 07:00

Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    La scala di seta (Overture)

    Ensemble: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Rossini: Overtures: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Jacques Datin

    Juste un fil de soie

    Performer: Jeanne Moreau.
    • POLYGRAM DISTRIBUTION.
  • Jules Massenet

    Dans l'air plein de fils de soie [Po猫me de souvenir]

    Performer: Jean-Fran莽ois Lapointe. Performer: Olivier Godin.
    • ATMA CLASSIQUE.
  • Anne Sylvestre

    Moire et satin (ou Petite chanson sans importance)

    Performer: Anne Sylvestre.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Angelo Badalamenti

    Main theme from "Blue Velvet"

    Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: Dirk Bross茅.
    • VARESE SARABANDE.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F major, BWV.1046 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jeanne Lamon. Performer: Ab Koster. Performer: John Abberger. Performer: Washington McLean. Performer: Marie-France Richard. Performer: Michael McCraw. Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.
    • J.S. Bach: Six Brandenburg Concertos; Tafelmusik, Lamon.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Romanian Folk Dances

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Bartok: Orchestral Works Vol.1: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 8.
  • Pancho Vladigerov

    7 Symphonic Bulgarian Dances, Op. 23: No. 3, Presto

    Conductor: Nayden Todorov. Orchestra: Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Vladigerov: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto in A major K414 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos K413, 414, 415.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 2.
  • M. Camargo Guarnieri

    Brazilian Dance

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Cate Le Bon

    It's not the end

    Performer: Cate Le Bon.
    • Irony Bored.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Maid of Pskov (Overture)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol: Seattle Symphony/Schwarz.
    • NAXOS.
    • 009.
  • Jim Ghedi

    Gylfinir

    Composer: Toby Hay. Performer: Jim Ghedi. Performer: Toby Hay.
    • Topic Records.
  • Frederick Delius

    String Quartet [1916] (2nd movement: Quick & Lightly)

    Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet.
    • ELOQUENCE.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    The cuckoo in the depths of the wood (Carnival of the Animals)

    Performer: Mark Simpson. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Jeneba Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • DECCA.
  • Howard Swanson

    The Cuckoo

    Performer: Monica Gaylord.
    • MUSIC & ARTS.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • DG.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Polka in F major (Czech Dances, Book 1)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • Hyperion.
  • Nico Muhly

    A Great Stone

    Performer: Clare College Cambridge Choir. Performer: Graham Ross.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Morgan Szymanski

    Cancion de las Aves

    Composer: Tommy Perman. Performer: Morgan Szymanski. Performer: Tommy Perman.
    • BLACKFORD HILL.
  • Benny Andersson

    Lay all your love on me

    Composer: Bj枚rn Ulvaeus. Performer: S艒 Percussion. Music Arranger: Caroline Shaw. Singer: Caroline Shaw.
    • Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part.
    • Nonesuch.
  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Cinnamon Grove - no.3, Ritmo moderato e con sentimento - quasi gavotte

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • NAVONA.
    • 18.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Concerto Grosso No.4 in G minor

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Virgin Classics.

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