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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 18 Feb 202307:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Overture: Don Pasquale

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • Warner Classics.

  • William Sheller

    Dans la ville endormie

    Performer: Dalida.
    • BARCLAY.

  • Alexandre Luigini

    Ballet Egyptien

    Performer: Michael Freedman. Orchestra: Embassy Symphony Orchestra.
    • GUILD.

  • Pierre Larrieu

    Nuit d'Alger

    Performer: Joséphine Baker.
    • EMI MUSIC.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Mandolin Concerto in G major (3rd mvt: Rondo)

    Performer: Raffaele La Ragione. Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Francesco Corti.
    • ARCANA.

  • Nancy Dalberg

    String Quartet No. 1 in D Minor: II. Scherzo. Allegretto gracioso

    Ensemble: Nordic String Quartet.
    • Dalberg: The String Quartets.
    • Dacapo.
    • 2.

  • Georges Bizet

    Habanera [Carmen - Suite no. 2]

    Performer: Timothy End. Music Arranger: Iain Farrington. Ensemble: Ferio Saxophone Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Ludovic Lamothe

    Danza No.1 "Habanera"

    Performer: Célimène Daudet.
    • NOMAD MUSIC.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Habanera

    Performer: Michel Plasson. Orchestra: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra.
    • EMI.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No.18 in F major, K.130 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Northern Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Ward.
    • Naxos.

  • William Byrd

    Awake, mine eyes for 4 voices [1611]

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Byrd: Psalmes, Songs and Sonnets (1611).
    • CORO.
    • 12.

  • Hinako Omori

    Spaceship Lament

    Performer: Hinako Omori.
    • Houndstooth.

  • Edward MacDowell

    Piano Concerto No.2 in D minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Stephen Prutsman. Orchestra: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Fagen.
    • Naxos.

  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G minor

    Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.
    • HYPERION.

  • Edvard Grieg

    March of the Trolls [Lyric Pieces, Book 5, Op.54]

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.

  • Henning Sommerro

    Vårsøg

    Performer: Eldbjørg Hemsing. Music Arranger: Ben Palmer. Orchestra: Arctic Philharmonic.
    • SONY.

  • Nicolas Gombert

    Ave Maria

    Ensemble: Brabant Ensemble. Director: Stephen Rice.
    • Tribulato et angustia – Four and five part motets by Nicolas Gombert.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for violin & orchestra "La Primavera", RV.269 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jeanne Lamon. Ensemble: Tafelmusik.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Hania Rani

    Spring

    Performer: Hania Rani.
    • GONDWANA RECORDS.

  • Francisco Tárrega

    Recuerdos de la Alhambra

    Performer: Alexandra Whittingham.
    • DELPHIAN.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Il Cuccu [The Birds]

    Performer: Henry Raudales. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra.
    • CPO.

  • Bert Jansch

    Lapwing

    Performer: Pye Corner Audio.
    • CASTLE MUSIC.

  • Caroline Shaw

    And the swallow

    Performer: Paul Hillier. Ensemble: Ars Nova Copenhagen.
    • NAXOS.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No 1 in B flat major, Op 38, 'Spring' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 1980-1990.
    • RCO Live.

Broadcast

  • Sat 18 Feb 202307:00
    BBC Radio 3