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Saturday - Elizabeth Alker

Classical music for breakfast time, plus found sounds and the odd unclassified track.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 27 Feb 2021 07:00

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Act 1, No 2: Waltz)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • Famous Waltzes.
    • Teldec.
  • Georges Moustaki

    La Carte du Tendre

    Performer: Georges Moustaki.
    • Polydor.
  • Claude Debussy

    Valse romantique

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete Works for Piano: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.
  • 脕ngel Cabral

    La Foule

    Performer: 脡dith Piaf. Lyricist: Michel Rivgauche.
    • Music For Pleasure.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet no.1 in G minor; Intermezzo

    Ensemble: Skride Piano Quartet.
    • Skride Piano Quartet.
    • Orfeo.
    • 6.
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto

    Energy Flow

    Performer: Ryuichi Sakamoto.
    • WEA Japan.
  • Aaron Copland

    Down a Country Lane

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Aaron Copland.
    • A Copland Celebration/Vol.1/Famous Orchestra and Chamber Works.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.
  • Philip Glass

    Mad Rush

    Performer: Thibault Cauvin. Performer: Ad茅la茂de Ferri猫re.
    • Sony.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Sonata in F major K.376 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • DG.
  • Nils Frahm

    O I End

    Performer: Nils Frahm.
    • Erased Tapes.
  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quatuor 脡b猫ne.
    • Ravel, Debussy & Faur茅 String Quartets.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 2.
  • Donna McKevitt

    Lumen / Nunc Dimittis

    Performer: Gesualdo Six.
  • Franz Schubert

    Musical Moment in C sharp minor, D.780 no 4

    Performer: Ll欧r Williams.
    • Ll欧r Williams: Schubert, Vol. 1.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 8.
  • 罢谤盲诲

    Codi Angor

    Performer: Georgia Ruth. Music Arranger: Georgia Ruth.
    • Week of Pines.
    • Gwymon.
    • 2.
  • John Rutter

    Rondeau, Lyric Suite

    Performer: Catrin Finch. Orchestra: Sinfonia Cymru. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • DG.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Vergn眉gungszug Polka, Op 281

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Billy Strayhorn

    Take the "A" Train

    Performer: Duke Ellington. Performer: Ray Nance.
    • Battle of the Bands.
    • BMG.
    • 18.
  • Elizabeth Cotten

    Freight Train

    Performer: Elizabeth Cotten.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor, BWV 1052 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Suite in A major Op.98b 'American' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Janacek: Lachian Dances/Dvorak: Suite in A major.
    • Teldec.
    • 7.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid orch Harris (3 Old Viennese Dances)

    Music Arranger: Arthur Harris. Performer: Isaac Stern. Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Milton Katims.
    • Humoresque, Favourite Violin Encores: Stern/Columbia Symphony Orch/Brieff/Katims.
    • Sony Classical.

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