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Thursday - 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

Thu 5 Jun 2014 06:30

Music Played

  • Georges Bizet

    L' Arlesienne - suite no. 2 [compiled by Ernest Guiraud], Farandole

    Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • The Berlin Album: Berliner Philharmoniker/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Oror [Lullaby] [from 'Gayane'], arr. for violin and piano

    Performer: Hideko Udagawa. Performer: Boris Berezovsky.
    • Khachaturian - Violin Sonata and Dances.
    • Nimbus Alliance.
    • 11.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade no.2 in A major Op.16 (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Haitink.
    • Philips.
    • 11.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite no.1 in C major BWV.1066 for orchestra; Passepied 1 & 2

    Orchestra: La Petite Bande. Director: Sigiswald Kuijken.
    • ACC24279.
    • ACCENT.
    • 7.
  • Aaron Copland

    Variations on a Shaker hymn (Appalachian Spring)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Copland: Appalachian Spring, Stravinsky: Apollon Musagete: Dorati.
    • Decca.
    • 6-8.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 86 (H.1.86) in D major, 4th movement; Finale

    Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien.
    • Haydn: the Paris Symphonies Nos. 82-87: Concentus Musicus, Harnoncourt.
    • BMG.
    • 4.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    3 Waltzes for piano (Op.64); no.2 in C sharp minor;

    Performer: Emilie Capulet.
    • Emilie Capulet plays Beethoven and Chopin.
    • BMP.
  • Richard Wagner

    Die Meistersinger von N眉rnberg (Prelude)

    Conductor: Franz Welser鈥怣枚st. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • Wagner: Preludes & Overtures: Cleveland Orchestra/Welser-Most.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    A Good-night for chorus

    Conductor: Paul McCreesh. Choir: Gabrieli Consort & Players.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.1 in D major, 2nd movement; Scherzo

    Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • Mahler: Symphonie no.1: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Eschenbach.
    • Capriccio.
    • 2.
  • William Lawes

    Consort Suite 脿 5 no.3 in C minor (Pavan)

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Williams Lawes - Consort Sets in Five and Six Parts.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 9.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Quintet in E flat major for piano and wind, Op 16 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble.
    • Beethoven; Mozart; Brahms, etc..
    • 大象传媒 Legends.
    • 3.
  • Robert Schumann

    Kinderszenen: Vom fremden Landern und Menschen; Kuriose Geschichte

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Kinderszenen / Kreisleriana.
    • DG.
    • 1.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Benvenuto Cellini (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Hector Berlioz - Overtures.
    • BMG Classics.
    • 7.
  • Franz Schubert

    An die Musik D.547

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Schubert: 25 Lieder: Ian Bostridge.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 14.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Running Set

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
  • Erik Satie

    Gymnop茅die no.1 in D major

    Performer: Joanna MacGregor.
    • The Music of Erik Satie; Joanna MacGregor.
    • Collins Classics.
    • 6.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Thunder and Lightning, Op 324

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • Champagne and Laughter: The Music of Johann Strauss II.
    • EMI.
    • 17.
  • Johann Christian Bach

    Symphonie Concertante in C major: 1st mvt; Allegro

    Ensemble: The Hanover Band. Conductor: Anthony Halstead.
    • J. Chr. Bach - Symphonies Concertantes Vol.6.
    • cpo.
    • 4.
  • Ralph Benatzky

    Mein Madel ist nur eine Verkauferin (from Meine Schwester und Ich)

    Singer: Jerry Hadley. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Jerry Hadley: The World is Beautiful - Viennese Operetta Arias.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 3.
  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Norwegian Dances Op.35 (no.3)

    Ensemble: Duo Scaramouche.
    • Duo Scaramouche - Grieg, Moszkowski, Brahms.
    • Scar.
    • 3.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets - suite (Op.32), Mars, the bringer of war

    Conductor: James Levine. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
    • Holst: The Planets: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Levine.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

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