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Embrace the morning calm of classical music and birdsong

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3鈥檚 Breakfast show live from Salford. With birdsong, Bach Before 7 and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Thu 18 Sep 2025 06:30
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Music Played

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Adagio for trumpet and orchestra

    Performer: Gianluigi Petrarulo. Orchestra: Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra of Milan. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody No 3 in D major

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 3.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Music Arranger: Gordon Langford. Performer: Phillip McCann. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • The World's Most Beautiful Melodies.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine (St John Passion, Part II, No 39)

    Performer: Academy of Ancient Music. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Choir: Academy of Ancient Music Chorus. Conductor: Richard Egarr.
    • JS Bach St John Passion.
    • AAM RECORDS.
    • 047.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sinfonietta (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
    • Chandos.

  • C茅sar Franck

    Violin Sonata in A Major M.8 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • Cesar Franck:聽Sonata for Piano and Violin - Ernest Chausson: Concert.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 104.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Toccata (Le Tombeau de Couperin)

    Orchestrator: David Molard Soriano. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Cristian M膬celaru.
    • Ravel Paris 2025.
    • Naive.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Va tacito (Giulio Cesare)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Handel: Ombra mai fu: Andreas Scholl, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.

  • Joseph Canteloube

    Ba茂l猫ro (Chants d'Auvergne)

    Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: Orchestre de l鈥橭p茅ra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Erato.

  • Gustav Holst

    2 Songs without Words, Op 22

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Imogen Holst.
    • Lyrita.

  • Ignace Joseph Pleyel

    Clarinet Concerto in B flat major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Paul Meyer. Orchestra: Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jean鈥怭ierre Rampal.
    • DENON.

  • Paz Abreu

    Quejas

    Performer: Sharon Isbin.
    • Road to the Sun: Latin Romances for Guitar: Sharon Isbin.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell To Stromness

    Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • NAXOS.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Performer: Melina Mandozzi. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Grieg/Liszt: Piano Concertos: Stephen Hough, BPO, Litton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in A minor, WoO.59, 'F眉r Elise'

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Beethoven: Bagatelles: Alfred Brendel.
    • 28.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Romance, Op 39

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • DECCA.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Gondoliers : Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Sullivan: Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Sinfonietta in A major Op.5 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Prokofiev Symphonies Vol. II.
    • Onyx.
    • 9.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Spring (3 Botticelli Pictures)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Trio in A Minor (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Sitkovetsky Trio.
    • Ravel & Saint-Sa毛ns: Piano Trios.
    • BIS.
    • 102.

Broadcast

  • Thu 18 Sep 2025 06:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3