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Birdsong and Bach to banish those morning blues

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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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Misericordias Domini, K 222

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt.
    • Mozart Requiem Reconstruction of first performance.
    • LINN.
    • 17.

  • Franz Berwald

    Septet in B flat major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Lorenzo Coppola. Performer: Donna Agrell. Performer: Teunis van der Zwart. Performer: Marc Destrub茅. Performer: Albert Br眉ggen. Performer: Robert Franenberg.
    • A Bassoon in Stockholm....
    • BIS.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No 3 in D major, BWV 1054; 1st movement

    Performer: Angela Hewitt. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Richard Tognetti.
    • Bach: The Keyboard Concertos - 2.
    • Hyperion.
    • 004.

  • Michael Nyman

    The Heart Asks Pleasure First (The Piano)

    Orchestra: The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.
    • Greatest Film Classics.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 14.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E major, Op 54 No 3 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Sacconi Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets opus 54.
    • Sacconi Records.
    • 9.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Odelette, Op. 162

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Conductor: Fran莽ois Leleux. Orchestra: Orchestre de chambre de Paris.
    • Mozart & Flute in Paris.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso in G Minor, Op 6 No 6, HWV 324 (4th & 5th mvts)

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Bernhard Forck.
    • Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Nos. 1-6.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 604.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Pell茅as and M茅lisande Suite, Op. 46: I. At the Castle Gate

    Conductor: Edward Gardner. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Sibelius: Luonnotar, Tapiola, Spring Song, Rakastava & Suite from Pell茅as och M茅.
    • Chandos.
    • 301.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Pell茅as and M茅lisande Suite, Op. 46: II. M茅lisande

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Sibelius: Luonnotar, Tapiola, Spring Song, Rakastava & Suite from Pell茅as och M茅.
    • Chandos.
    • 302.

  • Ant么nio Carlos Jobim

    Lamento no Morro

    Ensemble: Aquarelle Guitar Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D major Op.61 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Richard Tognetti. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Beethoven & Brahms Violin Concertos.
    • ABC classic.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Cinderella Suite No. 2, Op. 108: VII. Galop

    Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.
    • Prokofiev: Excerpts from Cinderella and Romeo & Juliet.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 202.

  • Edward Elgar

    La capricieuse Op.17

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Franz Schubert

    Rondo in A major D.951

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires. Performer: Ricardo Castro.
    • Schubert: Music for Piano Four Hands: Maria Joao Pires, Ricardo Castro.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 4 (In gemachlicher Bewegung)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan. Conductor: David Curtis.
    • SOMM.

  • Elgar Howarth

    Mosaic

    Performer: Eikanger-Bj酶rsvik Musikklag. Conductor: Elgar Howarth.
    • Howarth.
    • World of Sound.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Whispers of Summer

    Lyricist: Kathleen Easmon. Choir: London Choral Sinfonia. Conductor: Michael Waldron.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Choral Works.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 203.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • The Tchaikovsky Project: Volume 1.
    • Decca.
    • 5.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Miroirs, M. 43: III. Une barque sur l'oc茅an

    Performer: Alim Beisembayev.
    • The Leeds International Piano Competition 2021 鈥� Gold Medal Winner.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures from an exhibition (Ballet des poussins dans leurs coques)

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Mussorgsky / Borodin: Berliner Philharmoniker / Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 9.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Bourr茅e; Waltz (The Merchant of Venice)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vivian Dunn.
    • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Tue 4 Nov 2025 06:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3