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Ease into the day with classical music

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3鈥檚 classical breakfast show, including this week's 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century piece. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3鈥檚 Breakfast show live from Salford, including 麻豆社 Radio 3鈥檚 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century 鈥� a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, in Echoing Souls performed by the 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra Los-Angeles based Japanese composer Karen Tanaka commemorates the victims of the T艒hoku earthquake and tsunami which caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and was the most powerful earthquake in the country鈥檚 history.

You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Fri 18 Apr 2025 06:30
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Music Played

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Flight of the Bumblebee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)

    Performer: Isaac Stern. Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Milton Katims.
    • Humoresque, Favourite Violin Encores: Stern/Columbia Symphony Orch/Brieff/Katims.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Scott Joplin

    Gladiolus Rag

    Performer: Marcus Roberts.
    • Marcus Roberts: The Joy of Joplin.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 15.

  • Heino Eller

    Dawn [Zarya] - symphonic poem

    Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Olari Elts.
    • Baltic Sounds.
    • Ondine.
    • 101.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor, BWV 232 (Agnus Dei)

    Singer: Alfred Deller. Ensemble: Leonhardt鈥怌onsort.
    • L'Art D'Alfred Deller.
    • Vanguard Classics.
    • 9.

  • Claude Debussy

    Iberia: Le matin d'un jour de f锚te (Images)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SFS Media.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G major, Op 77 No 1, 'Lobkowitz' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Giovanni Felice Sances

    Stabat mater dolorosa

    Singer: Mar铆a Cristina Kiehr. Ensemble: Ensemble La Fenice.
    • RICERCAR.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet antique

    • Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano.
    • Chandos.
    • 104.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major, RV 558, 'con molti strumenti'

    Ensemble: Europa Galante. Conductor: Fabio Biondi.
    • Vivaldi: Concerti Per Mandolini: Europa Galante.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 1.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    La Barcheta [Venezia]

    Music Arranger: Tom Poster. Singer: Karim Sulayman. Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • Hahn: La Barcheta (arranged for Tenor & Piano Quinet by Tom Poster).
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

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

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.
    • Rafael Kubelik: Rare Recordings 1963 - 1974.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.

  • Eric Whitacre

    I thank you God (3 Songs of Faith)

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Eric Whitacre, Light & Gold.
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • Georges Bizet

    Bohemian Dance (Carmen Suite No.2)

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Bizet: Suites from Carmen - Grieg: Suites from Peer Gynt.
    • Telarc.
    • 8.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quintet for piano and wind in E flat, K452: III. Allegretto

    • Mozart: Flute Quartet in D; Clarinet Quintet in a; Quintet for Piano and Wind in.
    • ASV.
    • 7.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Preghiera (from Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor)

    Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler. Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Daniil Trifonov.
    • Preghiera - Rachmaninov Piano Trios.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846:

    • Daniel Barenboim - The Pianist.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Nasim devam: Polka in D Major

    Performer: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann.
    • Galakonzert aus Prag: Tschechische T盲nze aus Oper und Operette.
    • Orfeo.
    • 2.

  • Rachel Portman

    'Chocolat' - Main Title

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: David Snell.
    • Chocolat (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Erik Satie

    Valse du chocolat aux amandes (Menus propos enfantines)

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • French Classical Piano.
    • Decca.
    • 242.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Chocolate (Spanish Dance) - The Nutcracker, Op 71

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • The Nutcracker.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 003.

  • Karen Tanaka

    Echoing Souls

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: George Morton.

  • Johannes Brahms

    3 Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor

    Performer: Igor Levit.
    • Brahms: Piano Concertos & Solo Piano Opp. 116 - 119.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Norwegian Dances, Op 35

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Petri Sakari.
    • Grieg/Svendsen: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 1-4.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Brass Quintet no.1, Op.73 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. Conductor: Howard Snell.
    • Malcolm Arnold.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    A heart that knows its Jesus is living

    Choir: St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig. Choir: New Bach Collegium Musicum Leipzig. Orchestra: Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig. Conductor: Hans-Joachim Rotzsch.
    • Berlin Classics.

Broadcast

  • Fri 18 Apr 2025 06:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3