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Start the weekend with classical music

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

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Sat 30 Dec 2023 07:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (3rd mvt: Minuet)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio Sonata in F major, HWV.405

    Ensemble: Harmoniemusik.
    • Harmoniemusik.
    • The Classical Recording Company.
    • 10.

  • L茅o Ferr茅

    Le scaphandrier

    Performer: Henri Salvador.
    • Suave.

  • Darius Milhaud

    Corcovado [Saudades do Brasil, Op.67]

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Naxos.

  • Ernest Gold

    Montevideo

    Singer: Rina Ketty.
    • Musica Memoria.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, K191 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Bram van Sambeek. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Alexei Ogrintchouk.
    • Mozart, Weber & Du Puy: Bassoon Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Libertango

    Ensemble: The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Eduardo Rovira

    A Evaristo Carriego (Tango)

    Ensemble: Osvaldo Pugliese Orchestra.
    • Polygram.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Overture in E minor Op.23

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.
    • Louise Farrenc: Symphony no.2, Overtures.
    • CPO.
    • 5.

  • Trad.

    Danza del Altiplano

    Music Arranger: Leo Brouwer. Performer: Robert Beer.
    • Cuban Landscape.
    • Koch.
    • 19.

  • Florence Price

    An Elf on a Moonbeam

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Claude Debussy

    The Little Shepherd

    Performer: Mikado Koko. Music Arranger: Mikado Koko.
    • Children's Corner.
    • OGIVE.
    • 5.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Maskarade (Overture)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Sch酶nwandt.
    • DaCapo.

  • Nicolas Gombert

    Media Vita

    Performer: Gesualdo Six. Director: Owain Park.
    • Fading.
    • Hyperion.

  • Johann Christian Bach

    Overture from Artaserse

    Orchestra: The Hanover Band. Conductor: Anthony Halstead.
    • CPO.

  • Franz Schubert

    Marche militaire No 1 in D major, D 733

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires. Performer: H眉seyin Sermet.
    • Schubert: Fantasie...: Pires, Sermet.
    • Erato.
    • 2.

  • Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek

    Donna Diana (Overture)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Opera Overtures and Incidental Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 14.

  • Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek

    String Quartet No.3 in C sharp minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Minguet Quartett.
    • Reznicek: String Quartets.
    • CPO.
    • 12.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D major Op.35 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Gaffigan.
    • Warner.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Third of his Four Scottish dances, Op.59

    Music Arranger: Ray Farr. Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: Elgar Howarth.
    • The Malcolm Arnold Edition: Orchestral, brass and piano music.
    • Decca.
    • 14.

  • Henry Purcell

    Music for a while (Oedipus)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Performer: Laurence Cummings.
    • BIS.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Mother Gigogne and the Clowns)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 8.

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