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Top tunes for the weekend

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 30 Sep 2023 07:00

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Partita No 6 in E Minor, BWV830 (3rd mvt, Corrente)

    Music Arranger: Thomas Oehler. Ensemble: Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble. Ensemble: The Glenn Gould School. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • LINN.
  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major, D 803 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Mullova Ensemble.
    • ONYX.
  • Jacques Brel

    Je ne sais pas

    Performer: Jacques Brel.
    • BARCLAY.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Une Barque sur L'Ocean

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • William Walton

    5 Bagatelles (Alla Cubana)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Dreams & Fancies.
    • DELPHIAN.
    • 3.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Rigaudon

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Samuel Sanders. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
    • EMI.
  • David Raksin

    Theme from Laura (1944)

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • SONY.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550: 4th mvt - Allegro assai

    Conductor: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41 (Live).
    • PENTATONE.
    • 104.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Agnus Dei (Missa Tu es Petrus)

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Martin Baker.
    • HYPERION.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Spring 3 (The Four Seasons Recomposed)

    Music Arranger: Max Richter. Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin. Conductor: Andr茅 de Ridder.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Czech Suite (Polka)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jos茅 Serebrier.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Giovanni Paisiello

    Concerto in E flat (3rd movement)

    Performer: Avi Avital. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
  • Jane Antonia Cornish

    Memory of Time

    Performer: Anna Elashvili. Performer: Saeunn Thorsteinstottir. Performer: Caitlyn Sullivan. Performer: Claire Bryant. Performer: Hamilton Berry.
    • INNOVA.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sonata from The Triumph of Time and Truth

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Director: Marc Minkowski.
    • WARNER.
  • George Fenton

    The Blue Planet

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Concert Orchestra. Choir: The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford.
    • The Classic Chillout Album 2 CD2.
    • 成人快手 Worldwide.
    • 17.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    The Barn Owl has not Flown!

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • HYPERION.
  • Erland Cooper

    Cattie-Face for Isla

    Performer: Erland Cooper.
    • PHASES.
  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3 in D

    Orchestrator: Franz Liszt. Orchestrator: Franz Doppler. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Charles Gounod

    Petite Symphonie (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Gounod/Bizet: Symphony no.1/L'Arlesienne: St Paul Chamber Orch/Hogwood.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne in D flat major, op. 27 no. 2

    Performer: Michael Rabin. Performer: Leon Pommers. Music Arranger: August Wilhelmj.
    • TESTAMENT.

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