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Breakfast with the best classical music

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s 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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Music Played

  • Alexandre Desplat

    The Shape of Water

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Ensemble: Les Siècles. Conductor: Duncan Ward.
    • Les choses de la vie - Cinema 2.
    • ERATO.
    • 17.

  • Eric Whitacre

    The Seal Lullaby

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Choir: VOCES8.
    • Eventide.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 86 in D Major, Hob. I:86: I. Adagio. Allegro spiritoso

    Orchestra: Paris Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.
    • Haydn: Complete Paris Symphonies Nos. 82-87.
    • NoMadMusic.
    • 105.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord in A Minor, BWV 1044 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Katy Bircher. Performer: Marcin ÅšwiÄ…tkiewicz. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • Bach: Double & Triple Concertos.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 6.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Tchaikovsky 4 - Francesca da Rimini / Nelsons.
    • Orfeo.
    • 4.

  • Amanda Röntgen-Maier

    Violin sonata in B minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Cecilia Zilliacus. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • Amanda Maier, Volume 2; Violin sonata, 9 Pieces for violin and piano, 4 Songs.
    • db Productions.
    • 3.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Stabat Mater in F Minor, RV 621: No. 1. "Stabat Mater dolorosa"

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Alessandro Tampieri.
    • Invocazioni Mariane.
    • Naive.
    • 16.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    A London Symphony (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2).
    • Hyperion.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Yeoman of the Guard (overture)

    Orchestra: English National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • The Yeoman of the Guard and Trial by Jury.
    • TELARC.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Canteloube

    La delaissado (Chants d'Auvergne)

    Singer: Renée Fleming. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sebastian Lang-Lessing.
    • Guilty Pleasures.
    • DECCA.
    • 10.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Bassoon Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Karen Geoghegan. Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Chandos.

  • Eva Sæther

    ¹ó²¹²õ³Ùä²Ô

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • ECM.

  • Samuel Scheidt

    Canzon ad imitationem (Battle Suite)

    Music Arranger: Philip Jones. Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • La Battaglia: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo capriccio in G major Op.129 'Rage over a Lost Penny'

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Overture to The Magic Flute

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Conductor: Marie Jacquot.

  • John Novacek

    Intoxication - rag

    Performer: Leila Josefowicz. Performer: John Novacek.
    • Americana.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    3 Hungarian Dances [nos. 1, 3 and 10]

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • DECCA.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Bartered Bride (Overture)

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Darrell Ang.
    • Smetana: Triumphal Symphony & Overture and Dances from The Bartered Bride.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.

  • Anna Clyne

    The Eye

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ben Gernon.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat major Op.34 no.1

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin - The Complete Waltzes.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ariodante (Overture and Alla Breve)

    Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Simon Standage.
    • Chandos.

  • Max Bruch

    Kol nidrei Op.47

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Decca.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Quartet in G major Op.77 No.1 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Hyperion.

  • William Walton

    'Spitfire' Prelude and Fugue

    Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Salve Regina

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

Broadcast

  • Mon 3 Nov 2025 06:30
    Â鶹Éç Radio 3