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Wednesday - Ian Skelly

Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist, compiled from listener requests. Also, including your requests for works by neglected composers, amateur music-making groups and wake-up calls.
Email 3Breakfast@bbc.co.uk with your music requests.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 19 Feb 2014 06:30

Music Played

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic dances - series 1 (Op.46) orch. composer, no.5 in A major

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Decca.
    • 460 293 2.
    • 5.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Suite no.2 Op.17 (Romance)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Philips.
    • 411 034 2.
    • 1.
  • Regino S谩inz de la Maza

    Zapateado for guitar

    Performer: Sharon Isbin.
    • Road to the Sun: Latin Romances for Guitar: Sharon Isbin.
    • Vring Classics.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Vergn眉gte Ruh', beliebte Seelenlust (Cantata no.170)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Collegium Vocale Orchestra. Director: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Bach: Cantatas for alto (BWV 170, 54, 35): Scholl/Collegium Vocale/Herreweghe.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker - suite (Op.71a), no.3; Waltz of the flowers

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: James Levine.
    • Tchaikovsky: Ballet suites: Levine.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 19.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Gaetano Pugnani

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: John Lenehan.
    • Partners in Time: Tamsin Little/John Lenehan.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Frederick Delius

    On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Delius: Orchestral Works: London Philharmonic Orchestra/Handley.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
    • 2.
  • Trad.

    I have a bonnet trimmed with blue, arranged Hughes

    Performer: Kathleen Ferrier. Performer: Phyllis Spurr.
    • Naxos.
    • 8.111081.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major, K 581 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Eduard Brunner. Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • Mozart/Weber: Clarinet Quartets: Hagen Quartet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Symphonic Dances Op.64 (no.3)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Grieg: Complete Music with Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Hugh Roberton

    All in the April evening - partsong for 4 voices

    Choir: Laudibus. Conductor: Michael C. Brewer.
    • All in the April Evening.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Nicola Matteis

    Ground after the Scotch humour (Suite in F major)

    Performer: Pamela Thorby. Ensemble: Palladian Ensemble.
    • An Excess of Pleasure & The Winged Lion: Palladian Ensemble.
    • Linn.
    • 23.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Papillon for cello and piano, Op 77

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: C茅cile Licad.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks (Overture)

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • G.F. Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks: English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 1.
  • Richard Strauss

    4 Letzte Lieder AV.150 for voice and orchestra: September

    Singer: Leontyne Price. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Leinsdorf.
    • Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra; Vier letzte Lieder; Die Frau ohne Schatten: A.
    • RCA.
    • 3.
  • Franz Schubert

    Moments Musicaux, D.780 (no.2)

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Schubert 3: Imogen Cooper.
    • Ottavo.
    • 5.
  • Franz Schubert

    Moments Musicaux, D.780 (no.2)

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Schubert 3: Imogen Cooper.
    • Ottavo.
    • 6.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Fandango (Guitar Quintet no. 4 in D major G.448)

    Performer: Giangiacomo Pinardi. Ensemble: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • Boccherini: Quintets: Europa Galante.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No 118, 'O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht'

    Composer: Peter Downey. Performer: Timothy Byram-Wigfield. Performer: Hilary Brooks. Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Ensemble: Baroque Brass of London. Conductor: Martin Neary.
    • Croft: The Burial Service: Winchester Cathedral Choir/Neary.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Ruy Blas, Op.95

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • Mendelssohn: Overtures: Kurt Masur.
    • Berlin Classics.
  • John Dowland

    The Frog Galliard

    Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.
    • The Art of the Lute - Paul O'Dette.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.
  • George Butterworth

    2 English idylls for orchestra, no.1;

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Grant Llewellyn.
    • Colertidge Taylor/Butterworth/MacCunn: RLPO/Grant Llewellyn.
    • Argo.
  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    8 Concert Studies, Op.40 (Prelude)

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Kapustin: Piano music: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Les Sylphides, Op 18 (Finale)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Offenbach/Chopin/Delibes: Gaite Parisienne: Berliner Philharmoniker/Karajan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 25.

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