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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 25 Feb 202307:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Polka in D To Our Lasses (Nasim Devam)

    Performer: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Václav Smetáček.
    • Supraphon.

  • Carlos d'Alessio

    India Song

    Singer: Jeanne Moreau.
    • Le Tourbillon.
    • Philips.

  • Serge Rezvani

    Le Tourbillon de la Vie

    Performer: Serge Rezvani. Singer: Jeanne Moreau.
    • Le Tourbillon.
    • Philips.

  • Claude Debussy

    Beau Soir

    Performer: Smerald Spahiu. Performer: Miguel Estelrich. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
    • Produccions Blau.

  • Maurice Yvain

    Quand On S'Promène Au Bord de L'Eau

    Singer: Jean Gabin.
    • Chansons Et Musiques De Films Jean Gabin.
    • Silva France.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sextet in E Flat Major Op.81b (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Wiener Kammerensemble.
    • Beethoven: Septet, Op. 20 & Sextet, Op. 81b.
    • Denon.
    • 9.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Quartet no.2 in D major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Borodin Quartet.
    • DECCA.

  • Edmund Finnis

    String Quartet no.2 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Manchester Collective.
    • Shades.
    • Bedroom Community.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.38 in D major K.504 'Prague' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Prague Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 36, 38, 40, 41.
    • Supraphon.
    • 7.

  • William Byrd

    Quomodo cantabimus

    Music Arranger: Edmund Horace Fellowes.
    • Harmonia Mundi UK Limited.

  • Marisa Anderson

    Waking

    • Still, here.
    • Thrill Jockey.
    • 5.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Fugue; Air

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Kenneth Sillito.
    • CAPRICCIO.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude and Fugue in D major, Op 87 No 5

    Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva.
    • Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87: Tatiana Nicolayeva.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Steve Reich

    Different Trains (America - Before the War)

    Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
    • Reich: Different Trains & Electric Counterpoint.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Benny Goodman

    Chicago

    Ensemble: Benny Goodman and His Orchestra.
    • JSP.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No.9 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • Mercury Living Stereo.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Two-part inventions, BWV 722-3

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Maxim Rysanov.
    • DECCA.

  • Vincent Youmans

    Tea For Two

    Performer: Lise de la Salle. Music Arranger: Art Tatum.
    • When Do We Dance?.
    • Naive.

  • Henry Mancini

    Two for the Road (1967) - Something for Audrey

    Orchestra: The Henry Mancini Orchestra. Conductor: Henry Mancini.
    • Two For The Road.
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Quartet no.9 in G major TWV.43:G4 [Paris Quartet no.3] (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Florilegium.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Scott Joplin

    The Entertainer

    Ensemble: Katia & Marielle Labèque.
    • Encore! Katia and Marielle Labeque.
    • Sony classical.

  • Franz Schubert

    Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D.774

    Performer: Kunal Lahiry. Singer: Helen Charlston.

Broadcast

  • Sat 25 Feb 202307:00
    BBC Radio 3