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Relaxing classics for the weekend

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 14 Oct 202307:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Frederick Delius

    2 Aquarelles

    Music Arranger: Eric Fenby. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Julian Lloyd Webber.
    • Naxos.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo capriccio in G major Op.129 'Rage over a Lost Penny'

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Vincent Scotto

    J'ai Deux Amours

    Performer: Joséphine Baker.
    • EMI.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Sicilienne Op. 78

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Pascal Devoyon.
    • RCA.

  • Vincent Scotto

    La Petitie Tonkinoise

    Singer: Joséphine Baker.
    • Josephine Baker (1931-1968).
    • Pathé.
    • 4.

  • Leoš Janáček

    Sinfonietta (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.

  • Leoš Janáček

    Pohadka (A Fairy Tale) - final movement

    Performer: Danjulo Ishizaka. Performer: Shai Wosner.
    • ONYX.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds in E flat, K. 297b - 3rd mvt

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Jaime Martín.
    • LSO Live.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in B major Op.72 no.9

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Nobel Prize Ceremony Music.
    • FINLANDIA.
    • 6.

  • Simon Jeffes

    Perpetuum mobile

    Performer: Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
    • Signs of Life.
    • E.G. Records.
    • 9.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite no.1 in G major BWV.1007 (Prelude)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.
    • DECCA.

  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Heyr þú oss himnum á [Hear us in the heavens]

    Choir: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis. Conductor: Hörður Áskelsson.
    • Meditatio: Music for Mixed Choir.
    • BIS.
    • 10.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Capriccio in B minor (8 Pieces Op.76)

    Performer: Richard Goode.
    • Richard Goode plays Brahms.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Philip Glass

    Facades

    Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble.
    • Sony.

  • Luigi Denza

    Funiculi, Funicula

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Ensemble: Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Comunale Di Bologna. Conductor: Anton Guadagno.
    • Pavarotti Amore - The Love Album.
    • Decca.
    • 19.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo alla Turca (from Piano Sonata No.11 in A, K331)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Stokovski encores.
    • Chandos.

  • Aaron Copland

    Variations on a Shaker Hymn (Appalachian Spring)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Warner.

  • John Denver

    Take Me Home, Country Roads

    Ensemble: Mountain Man.
    • NONESUCH.

  • Scott Joplin

    The Entertainer

    Music Arranger: Richard Hayman. Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Burlesque de Quixotte

    Performer: Terje Tønnesen. Music Arranger: Terje Tønnesen. Orchestra: Camerata Nordica.
    • Tales of Sound and Fury.
    • BIS.
    • 1008.

  • Franz Schubert

    Ave Maria

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Music Arranger: August Wilhelmj. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: James MacMillan.
    • UCJ.

Broadcast

  • Sat 14 Oct 202307:00
    BBC Radio 3