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Saturday - 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

Last on

Sat 8 Mar 2014 07:00

Music Played

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in E flat major Wq.183`2

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Gustav Leonhardt.
    • CPE Bach: Symphonies, Cello Concertos, etc: Bylsma/OAE/Leonhardt.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 4.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet arr Rees-Williams (Sonatine)

    Music Arranger: David Rees-Williams. Ensemble: David Rees-Williams Trio.
    • David Rees-Williams Trio: Hidden Colours.
    • 大象传媒.
    • 2.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The springtime of the year (Five English Folk Songs)

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Director: John Rutter.
    • The Lark in the Clear Air.
    • Collegium.
    • 6.
  • Hugo Alfv茅n

    Swedish Rhapsody no.1 'Midsummer Vigil'

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen.
    • SONY.
    • 1.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Cello Sonata, Op 19 (Andante)

    Performer: Leonard Elschenbroich. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no.3 in G minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.
    • Louise Farrenc: Symphonies 1 and 3.
    • CPO.
    • 7.
  • Alexander Kopylov

    Polka

    Performer: Vertavo Quartet.
    • PSC 1178.
    • SIMAX.
    • 10.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto No 3 in A major, Wq 172 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Truls M酶rk. Ensemble: Les Violons du Roy. Director: Bernard Labadie.
    • CPE Bach: Cello Concertos - Truls Mork.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 3.
  • Amy Beach

    Three Songs, Op. 21: No. 1 Chanson d'amour

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Performer: Charles Medlam.
    • BIS.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Capriccio Italien

    Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin. Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra.
    • Russian Capriccios: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra/Kiril Kondrashin.
    • RCA Victor.
  • Dilys Elwyn-Edwards

    The cloths of heaven

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Bryn Terfel: Silent Noon - English Songs.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    On the Town (Times Square)

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Copland/Bernstein: Billy the Kid etc.: Slatkin/de Waart.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concert rondo for piano and orchestra (K.386) in A major

    Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Petra M眉llejans.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos: Bezuidenhout, FBO.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Henry Purcell

    If music be the food of love

    Performer: Iestyn Davies. Performer: Richard Egarr.
    • WHLIVE 0065.
    • WIGMORE HALL LIVE.
    • 8.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24: LSO & Chorus/Davis.
    • LSO Live.
    • 3.

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