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Saturday - Elizabeth Alker

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

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Sat 20 Aug 202207:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jules Massenet

    Overture: Le Roi de Lahore

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Léo Ferré

    Le scaphandrier

    Performer: Henri Salvador.
    • Suave.

  • Darius Milhaud

    Corcovado [Saudades do Brasil, Op.67]

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Naxos.

  • Ernest Gold

    Montevideo

    Performer: Rina Ketty.
    • Musica Memoria.

  • Giuseppe Torelli

    Sinfonia for two trumpets in D major, G.32

    Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.
    • CHACONNE.

  • Léo Delibes

    Flower Duet (Lakmé)

    Singer: Joan Sutherland. Singer: Jane Berbié. Orchestra: Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Chandos.

  • Dan Haywood

    A Floral Dance

    Performer: Dan Haywood.
    • Southern Bird Records.

  • Edward MacDowell

    Forest Spirits (Suite No 1)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Takuo Yuasa.
    • Naxos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Quartet in D major K.285 (1st mvt.)

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Christoph Poppen. Performer: Hariolf Schlichtig. Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras.
    • EMI CLASSICS.

  • Hayden Thorpe

    Golden Ratio (Deep Throat Choir Remix)

    Performer: Hayden Thorpe.
    • Domino Records.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    Dance of desire (Enchantment, No 3)

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • NAVONA.
    • 13.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Mikado (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • WARNER.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Prelude: Emilia di Liverpool

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: David Parry.
    • Opera Rara.

  • Gerry Marsden

    Ferry Across the Mersey

    Performer: Pat Metheny.
    • Warner.

  • Ruth Gipps

    Ambarvalia Op.70 for orchestra

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Peebles.
    • Piano Concertos.
    • Somm.
    • 15.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No.2, BWV.1047 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jeanne Lamon. Ensemble: Tafelmusik.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Caroline Shaw

    Firmament

    Orchestra: A Far Cry Orchestra.
    • The Blue Hour.
    • New Amsterdam.

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque No 2 in G major

    Performer: Zoltán Kocsis.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Josquin des Prez

    El Grillo for 4 voices

    Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble. Director: Paul Hillier.
    • Erato.

  • Traditional Irish

    Go to the devil and shake yourself

    Performer: David Quigley. Music Arranger: John Field.
    • HERITAGE.

  • Anthony Holborne

    The Honie-suckle

    Performer: Ronald Romm. Performer: Frederic Mills. Performer: David Ohanian. Performer: Eugene Watts. Performer: Charles Daellenbach. Music Arranger: Mark Kroll. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • Canadian Brass: English Renaissance Music.
    • CBS.

  • Dame Ethel Mary Smyth

    The Boatswain's Mate (Overture)

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos CHAN 10898.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Sat 20 Aug 202207:00
    BBC Radio 3