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Saturday - Elizabeth Alker

A breakfast melange of classical music, folk, found sounds and the odd Unclassified track.

Much loved favourites alongside new musical treasures - Elizabeth Alker presents her Breakfast combination of classical music, folk, found sounds and the odd Unclassified track. Includes a "Croissant Corner" of French chanson at 0710, "Known/Unknown" pairings of familiar much-loved tracks alongside more unusual ones, plus a weekly "Mozart moment".

2 hours

Last on

Sat 2 Sep 2023 07:00

Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Il Signor Bruschino (Overture)

    Orchestra: Münchener Kammerorchester. Conductor: Alexander Liebreich.
    • Rossini: Overtures: Munchener Kammerorchester/Liebreich.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Max Alexys

    A la Guadeloupe

    Singer: Francine Claudel.
    • SÉLECTION DU READERS DIGEST.
  • Ludovic Lamothe

    Icônes vaudouesques "Loco"

    Performer: Célimène Daudet.
    • NOMADMUSIC.
  • Henri Salvador

    ±á²¹Ã¯³Ù¾±

    Singer: Henri Salvador.
    • FRÉMEAUX & ASSOCIES.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in F major for two horns, RV.539

    Performer: Anneke Scott. Performer: Jocelyn Lightfoot. Ensemble: La Serenissima. Conductor: Adrian Chandler.
    • Avie.
  • William Byrd

    Bow thine ear O Lord

    Music Arranger: Nico Muhly. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Decca.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in D flat major, Op.64 No.1 "Minute"

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter.
    • Chopin: Piano Sonata No.3 etc: Ingrid Fliter.
    • EMI.
    • 10.
  • Florence Price

    Rainbow Waltz

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Florence Price Piano Music.
    • Guild Music.
    • 16.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet in B flat major, K 174 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Heinz-Otto Graf. Ensemble: Heutling-Quartett.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.
  • James McMillan

    Ave maris stella

    Ensemble: The Elysian Singers. Conductor: Sam Laughton.
    • Ave maris stella.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Much ado about nothing - suite Op.11 for chamber orchestra....: Hornpipe

    Orchestra: Mineria Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Carlos Miguel Prieto.
    • Naxos.
  • Traditional French

    Marguerite

    Music Arranger: Olivia Chaney. Singer: Olivia Chaney.
    • Olivia Chaney.
  • William Walton

    Partita for orchestra: 1st mvt; Toccata

    Orchestra: Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto Grosso in E flat, Op.7 No.6 "Il Pianto d'Arianna" (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Leos JanáÄek

    The Little Owl has not flown away [On an Overgrown Path]

    Performer: Thomas Adès.
    • Ades, Janacek - Solo Piano.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 5.
  • Edward Elgar

    Four Part-Songs, Op 53: Owls

    Ensemble: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Signum.
  • Rufus Wainwright

    Prima Donna (Overture: Act II)

    Orchestra: Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jayce Ogren.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen, Act I: 'L'amour est un oiseau rebelle'

    Singer: Maria Callas. Choir: Chœur René Duclos. Orchestra: National Theater Opera Orchestra of Paris. Conductor: Georges Prêtre.
    • EMI.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in C sharp minor

    Performer: Sergey Rachmaninov.
    • Naxos.
  • Caroline Shaw

    And So

    Singer: Caroline Shaw. Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • Evergreen.
    • Nonesuch Records.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 94 in G Major, Hob.I:94 - "Surprise" (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Brüggen.
    • Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 94, 95 & 96.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.
  • Laura Mvula

    Sing to the Moon

    Ensemble: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • Sing to the Moon.
    • Signum Records.
    • 1.
  • Francisco Tárrega

    Adelita

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • The Guitar: Milos Karadaglic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Ballade in A minor, Op.33 (2nd mvt: A tempo - Tranquillo e molto)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kalena Bovell.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 14.

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