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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 9 Apr 2014 06:30

Music Played

  • Hubert Parry

    I was glad

    Choir: The Sixteen. Performer: Robert Quinney. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • A New Heaven, The Sixteen.
    • UCJ.
    • 1.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Ballade no.3 in A flat major Op.47

    Performer: C茅cile Ousset.
    • Best Chopin 50.
    • EMI.
    • 16.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wie sch枚n leuchtet der Morgenstern (Cantata no.1)

    Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Choir: Amsterdam Baroque Choir. Director: Ton Koopman.
    • Bach - Complete Cantatas 13.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 1.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Sicilienne, Op.78

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Pascal Devoyon.
    • 09026680492.
    • RCA.
    • 8.
  • William Walton

    Henry V - suite arr. Malcolm Sargent, Prelude (The Globe)

    Performer: David Nolan. Conductor: Carl Davis. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Walton: Film Music: LPO/Davis.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Franz Liszt

    (Schubert) [6] Melodien S.563, transc. for piano: no.2; Des Madchens Klage

    Performer: Valentina Lisitsa.
    • Valentina Lisitsa - Liszt.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Henry Purcell

    Strike the viol (Come ye sons of art)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Director: Stefano Montanari.
    • Decca.
  • Claude Debussy

    Sonata in D minor for cello and piano: 1st movement; Prologue

    Performer: Mistislav Rostropvich. Performer: Benjamin Britten.
    • Schubert - Arpeggione Sonata; Schumann; Debussy.
    • Decca.
    • 9.
  • Thomas Tallis

    If ye love me

    Performer: The Cardinall鈥檚 Musick. Conductor: Andrew Carwood.
    • CDA67994.
    • HYPERION.
    • 9.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Preludio (The Birds)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Antiche Danze, Arie I & III etc: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Roger Quilter

    Dream Valley (William Blake); 6 Songs Op.25: no.2; The Fuschia tree

    Singer: Jeffrey Benton. Performer: Rona Lowe.
    • Roger Quilter Songs.
    • Symposium.
    • 19; 24.
  • Roger Quilter

    Spring is at the door, Op 18 No 4

    Singer: Lisa Milne. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • The English Song Series: 5, Quilter.
    • Naxos.
    • 13.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Ma m猫re l'oye (Le jardin f茅erique)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Yannick Nezet-Seguin Ravel Rotterdam Phiharmonic Orchestra.
    • EMI.
    • 17.
  • Thomas Arne

    Overture No 3 in G major

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Arne: Eight Overtures: Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 5.
  • Michael Nyman

    In re Don Giovanni

    Ensemble: Michael Nyman Band.
    • CDVE924.
    • VENTURE.
    • 1.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Bucolique (Variations sur le nom de Marguerite Long)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: George Pretre.
    • Poulenc - Concertos, musique symphonique and religieuse.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 24.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.27 in B flat major, K.595 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 17 and 27.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Der Tod Jesu - passion oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra: So stehet..

    Singer: Jan Kobow. Orchestra: Magdeburg Chamber Orchestra. Orchestra: Telemann-Kammerorchester Michaelstein. Conductor: Ludger Remy.
    • Georg Philipp Telemann: Der Tod Jesu.
    • cpo.
    • 14.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Seventeen come Sunday (English Folk Song Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • Holst/Vaughan Williams: British Wind Band Classics: Timothy Reynish.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    March (English Folk Song Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • Holst/Vaughan Williams: British Wind Band Classics: Timothy Reynish.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.
  • George Frideric Handel

    I know that my Redeemer liveth (Messiah)

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Orchestra: Taverner Players. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.
    • The Essential Emma Kirkby.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 17.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Quartet in F major Op.135 for strings: 1st movement; Allegretto

    Ensemble: Zehetmair Quartett.
    • Zehetmair Quartett: Beethoven; Bruckner; Hartmann; Holliger.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 1.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no.5 in E flat major Op.82 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: John Storg氓rds.
    • John Storgards conducts Sibelius - Complete Symphonies; Three Late Fragments.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude, Op.32 No.12

    Performer: Peter Donohoe.
    • 7647872.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

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