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Sunday - Ian Skelly

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

Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk or text 83111 with your music requests.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 2 Feb 2014 07:00

Music Played

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Plat茅e (Prologue: Overture)

    Orchestra: European Union Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Rameau: Ballet Suites.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    3 Nocturnes Op.9 (no.2 in E flat major)

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires.
    • DG.
    • 2.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony No. 7

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Otmar Suitner.
    • Dvorak: Symphonies Nos 6 and 7: Berlin Staatskapelle, Suitner.
    • Berlin Classics.
  • Louis Vierne

    Symphony no. 2 in E minor Op.20 for organ: 1st movement; Allegro in E minor

    Performer: David Hill.
    • Vierne - Symphony No 2; Les Angelus.
    • Helios.
    • 1.
  • Michael Haydn

    Missa Sanctae Ursulae for soloists, chorus and orchestra; Gloria

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Singer: Hilary Summers. Singer: James Gilchrist. Singer: Peter Harvey. Choir: Choir of the King鈥檚 Consort. Ensemble: King's Consort. Conductor: Robert King.
    • Michael Haydn: Requiem; Missa in Honorem Sanctae Ursulae.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini for piano & orch. (Op.43), Variation XVIII-XXIV

    Performer: Nikolai Lugansky. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • The Rachmaninov Experience.
    • Warner Classics and Jazz.
  • Arnold Bax

    Tintagel

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Bax: Symphonic Poems.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    La campanella arr Kreisler

    Performer: Chlo毛 Hanslip. Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler. Orchestrator: Jurgen Blume. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Mann.
    • Chloe.
    • Warner.
    • 1.
  • George Butterworth

    Bredon Hill (Bredon Hill and other songs)

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • George Butterworth, Songs from A Shropshire Lad: Williams / Burnside.
    • Naxos.
    • 12.
  • Cecil Coles

    Behind the lines - suite for small orchestra: 1st mvt; Estaminet du carrefour

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Cecil Coles: Behind the Lines; Fra Giacomo; Four Verlaine Songs etc..
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Die Fledermaus (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser鈥怣枚st.
    • J. Strauss II: Walzes & Overtures: Welser-Most.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.
  • Gottfried August Homilius

    Opening Chorus from Cantata 'Der herr ist Gott, der uns erleuchtet'

    Choir: Dresdner Kreuzchor. Orchestra: Dresden Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Roderich Kreile.
    • Gottfried August Homilus - Musik an der Dresdner Frauenkirche.
    • CARUS.
    • 1.
  • Sergei Bortkiewicz

    Concerto No 1 in B flat major, Op 16 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Stephen Coombs. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • Arensky and Bortkiewicz - Piano Concertos.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker - suite (Op.71a); no.2a; March

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • TELARC.
    • CD 80068.
    • 3.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Fantasia on a ground after Purcell : Fantasia (Z.731)

    Ensemble: Contempoartensemble. Director: Mauro Ceccanti.
    • Maxwell Davies: Linguae Ignis; Vesalii Icones.
    • Naxos.
    • 16.

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