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Saturday - Elizabeth Alker

Elizabeth Alker with her Breakfast melange of classical music, folk, found sounds plus the odd Unclassified track, and featuring two shortlisted entries from the Carol Competition. Start your weekend right.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 17 Dec 2022 07:00

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin (Act 2: Waltz)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • Tchaikovsky: Famous Waltzes: New York Philharmonic: Masur.
    • Teldec.
    • 3.
  • Charles Trenet

    Le Petit No毛l

    Composer: Johnny Hess. Performer: Charles Trenet. Performer: Johnny Hess.
    • Disky Vintage.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino for flute, piano and chamber orchestra (4th movement)

    Performer: Anthony Robb. Performer: Diana Ambache. Performer: Ambache Chamber Ensemble.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Hippolyte Ackermans

    Le No毛l des petits Santons

    Performer: Tino Rossi.
    • PARLOPHONE.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite no.1 in C major, BWV.1066 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • J.S. Bach, Orchestral Suites, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra / Ton Koopman.
    • RCA.
    • 6.
  • David Bentley

    The Winter's Brightening

    Music Arranger: Joanna Forbes. Music Arranger: Alexander L鈥橢strange. Choir: 成人快手 Singers. Performer: Richard Pearce. Conductor: Nicholas Chalmers.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in E flat major, K 252 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart: The Wind Concertos: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 15.
  • Anon.

    Veni, veni Emmanuel

    Performer: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Anon.

    O come, o come Emmanuel

    Performer: Sufjan Stevens. Music Arranger: Sufjan Stevens.
    • ASTHMATIC KITTY.
  • Anon.

    Veni, veni Emmanuel

    Performer: Trio X.
    • NAXOS SWEDEN.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps (Entr'acte)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Sarah Neufeld

    And Still They Move

    Composer: Colin Stetson. Performer: Sarah Neufeld. Performer: Colin Stetson.
    • Late Night Tales: 脫lafur Arnalds.
    • Late Night Tales.
    • 14.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Festive Overture, Op. 96

    Conductor: Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich.
    • Shostakovich: The Gadfly Suite & Selected Symphonies.
    • Silent Star Music.
    • 21.
  • Atli Heinar Sveinsson

    Autumn Verses for the Virgin Mary

    Performer: The Hamrahl铆冒 Choir. Performer: 脼orger冒ur Ing贸lfsd贸ttir.
    • ONE LITTLE INDEPENDENT RECORDS.
  • Keith Hopwood

    Joy Shall Be Yours (Carol of the Field Mice)

    Composer: Malcolm Rowe. Performer: Bella Hardy. Performer: Anna Massie. Performer: Chris Sherburn. Lyricist: Kenneth Grahame.
    • NOE RECORDS.
  • George Winston

    Dubuque

    Performer: George Winston.
    • Dancing Cat Records.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in F minor, RV 297, 'Winter' (3rd movement)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Candida Thompson. Performer: Henk Rubingh. Performer: Julian Rachlin. Performer: Maarten Jansen. Performer: Stacey Watton. Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Performer: Jan Jansen.
    • DECCA.
  • Aaron Copland

    Billy The Kid (The Open Prairie)

    Performer: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Leonard Slatkin.
    • NAXOS.
  • Hilary Ashworth

    The Winter's Brightening

    Music Arranger: Joanna Forbes. Music Arranger: Alexander L鈥橢strange. Choir: 成人快手 Singers. Performer: Richard Pearce. Conductor: Nicholas Chalmers.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D, TWV54.D3 (Vivace)

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • The Godfather: Masters of the German & Italian Baroque.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 4.
  • Harold Edwin Darke

    In The Bleak Midwinter

    Performer: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Performer: Andrew Lumsden.
    • REGENT.
  • 脫lafur Arnalds

    I am Winter

    Performer: Nils Frahm.
    • PSYCHIC HOTLINE.
  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet No 14 in D minor, D 810, 'Death and the Maiden' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Schubert: Death and The Maiden: Hagen Quartet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • 罢谤盲诲

    God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

    Performer: Kate & Anna McGarrigle. Music Arranger: Kate & Anna McGarrigle.
    • The McGarrigle Christmas Hour.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 13.

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