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Friday - 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

Fri 21 Feb 2014 06:30

Music Played

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Khovanshchina - Prelude to Act 1 (Dawn on the Moscow River) (opera compl. & orch Shostakovich)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • DECCA.
    • 468 526-2.
    • 16.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in A minor for recorder and viola da gamba, TWV 52 a1 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Pierre Hamon. Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
    • Corelli/Telemann/Rameau: In the Time of Louis XV (1725-1774): Le Concert Spiritu.
    • Alia Vox.
  • George Gershwin

    Summertime; A woman is a sometime thing (Porgy and Bess Suite)

    Performer: Matthew Trusler. Performer: Wayne Marshall. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
    • Blues: Matthew Trusler/Wayne Marshall.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 1.
  • 脡douard Lalo

    Scherzo for orchestra

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.
    • Ernest Ansermet L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
    • Decca.
    • 10.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe (Cantata no.34)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Choruses - Gardiner.
    • SDG.
    • 1.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Scherzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op 61)

    Conductor: Jeffrey Tate. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream; Tate.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.
  • Martin Peerson

    Pater fili paraclete - motet

    Choir: Ex Cathedra Consort. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Martin Peerson: Latin Motets: Ex Cathedra Consort, Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No. 42 in G, Hob. XVI: 27

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Haydn: Piano Sonatas vol.3: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 9.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Serenade for Strings in E major, Op 22 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Dvorak: String Serenade in E major: English Chamber Orchestra/Mackerras.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Tale of Tsar Saltan Op.57(The Three Wonders)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • L茅o Delibes

    Les filles de Cadix

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eivind Aadland.
    • Storyteller: Tine Thing Helseth.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the heaven

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Universal.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    12 Studies for piano (Op.25), no.1 in A flat major "Aeolian Harp"

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • The Chopin Album.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
    • 1.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Concerto for violin and orchestra (Op.47) in D minor, 3rd mvt; Allegro...

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • Sibelius: Violin Concerto: Kavakos/Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Vanska.
    • BIS.
    • 6.
  • Penguin Cafe

    Radio Bemba

    Performer: Penguin Cafe.
    • The Red Book.
    • PENGUIN CAFE.
    • DPC 104.
    • 5.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Eternal source of light (Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne)

    Singer: Robin Blaze. Performer: David Blackadder. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Handel: Coronation Anthems: Choir of King's College Cambridge/Cleobury.
    • EMI.
    • 16.
  • Willem de Fesch

    Concerto 5 in C minor: 1st mvt; Allegro

    Orchestra: Musica ad Rhenum.
    • Willem De Fesch - VI Concerti Opera Quinta.
    • NM Classics.
    • 4.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Circus Polka

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • Stravinsky: In America: London Symphony Orchestra/Tilson Thomas.
    • RCA.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Andante in F major K.616

    Music Arranger: Michael Hasel. Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bl盲serquintett Berlin.
    • Mozart: Music for Piano and Wind Quintet.
    • BIS.
    • 8.
  • Frank Bridge

    Scherzettino

    Performer: Ashley Wass.
    • Bridge: Piano Music Volume 2: Ashley Wass.
    • Naxos.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G minor, RV 156

    Performer: Midori Seiler. Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • Vivaldi: Double Concertos: Academie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Shepherd Girl's Dance (The Mountain King Op.37)

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • World Encores: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Jansons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.
  • Robert Fuchs

    Serenade no. 3 in E minor Op.21: 4th mvt; Finalle alla Zingarese

    Orchestra: RIAS Berlin Sinfonietta. Conductor: Ji艡i St谩rek.
    • Heuberger/Fuchs/Straus: Serenaden.
    • Koch Schwann.
    • 8.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Wenn ich in deine Augen sehe

    Performer: Eugene Asti. Singer: Sophie Daneman. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly.
    • Mendelssohn: Songs and Duets - 3: Daneman, Connolly, Padmore, Loges, Asti.
    • Hyperion.
  • Charles鈥怣arie Widor

    Salve Regina (Organ Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 13)

    Conductor: Martin Yates. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Charles-Marie Widor: Volume 2 - Cello Concerto; Symphony no.2.
    • Dutton Epoch.
    • 10.

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