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Saturday - Ian Skelly

Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's Breakfast Show, waking up the UK with the finest classical music and the best performances.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 1 Feb 2014 07:00

Music Played

  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 37 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Arabella Steinbacher. Orchestra: Orquestra Gulbenkian Lisbon. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.
    • Bruch/Korngold - Violin Concertos.
    • Pentatone Classics.
    • 7.
  • Johann Bernhard Bach

    Overture-Suite No 2 in G major (Overture)

    Ensemble: Bach Players.
    • The Bach Players - Bah's Library.
    • Hyphen Press Music.
    • 1 & 7.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    脡tudes-tableaux, Op 39 (No 2 in A minor)

    Performer: Freddy Kempf.
    • Freddy Kempf plays Rachmaninov.
    • BIS.
    • 5.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesfreud' - old Viennese dance no. 1 orch. Roberts [orig. violin and piano]

    Music Arranger: Roberts, Chas. J.. Ensemble: Salonorchester C枚lln. Performer: Ulrich Alshuth. Performer: Stehgeiger.
    • Spielt Cafehaus-Musik: Das Salon-Orchester Colln.
    • EMI.
    • 3.
  • Jules Massenet

    Manon - opera comique in 5 acts: Act 3; Ahime! L'augel...La tua non e la mano..

    Singer: Renata Tebaldi. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Anton Guadagno.
    • A Tebaldi Festival - Renata Tebaldi.
    • Decca.
    • 10.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony etc..
    • EMI.
    • 5.
  • George Gershwin

    I got rhythm (Girl Crazy)

    Performer: Richard Rodney Bennett.
    • Gershwin/Kern etc: That certain feeling: Richard Rodney Bennett.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
  • William Byrd

    Emendemus in melius

    Choir: Alamire. Conductor: David Skinner.
    • OBSIDIAN.
    • CD 706.
    • 4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for keyboard... no. 3 (BWV.1054) in D major, 1st movement;

    Performer: Christophe Rousset. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Bach: Harpsichord Concertos: Rousset/AAM/Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 10.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony No 2 in G minor, 'Song of a New Race' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Still: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3; Wood Notes.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Violin Sonata no.2 in G major Op.13 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestrator: Bernt Simen Lund. Orchestrator: Henning Kraggerud. Performer: Henning Kraggerud. Orchestra: Troms酶 Chamber Orchestra.
    • Grieg: Three Concerti for Violin and Orchestra.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Madamina, il catalogo 猫 questo (Don Giovanni)

    Singer: Jonathan Lemalu. Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Jonathan Lemalu: Opera Arias.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Quartet no. 1 in A major for strings: 2nd mvt; Andante con moto - fugato..

    Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.
    • Borodin: Quartets/Sextet.
    • ASV Digital.
    • 2.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique (March to the Scaffold)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique: Jansons.
    • EMI.
    • 5.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Otello, ossia Il moro di Venezia - Act 3; Assisa a pie d'un salice (Willow song)

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Conductor: Edoardo M眉ller. Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome.
    • Colbran, The Muse.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 12.
  • Aaron Copland

    Buckaroo Holiday (Rodeo - 4 dance episodes)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Copland the Populist: Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 1.

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