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Start the day with classical music

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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Fri 7 Nov 2025 06:30
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Music Played

  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Les baricades mist茅rieuses (Pi猫ces de clavecin, Ordre no.6)

    Performer: Jean Rondeau. Performer: Thomas Dunford.
    • Erato.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Silent Woods

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Venzago.
    • RCA.

  • Edward Elgar

    Sospiri

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mirga Gra啪inyt臈鈥怲yla.
    • DG.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No.7 in G minor, BWV.1058 (2nd mvt: Andante)

    Performer: Christophe Rousset. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Bach: The Complete Harpsichord Concertos: Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 8.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Wedding-cake Op.76

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Hyperion.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music Suite in F major HWV.348 (Air)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Director: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Handel: Water & Fireworks Music: London Classical Players, Norrington.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    7 Variations on 'Bei M盲nnern, welche Liebe f眉hlen' from Mozart's Magic Flute

    Performer: Anastasia Kobekina. Performer: Elisabeth Brauss.

  • Peter Warlock

    Basse-danse (Capriol Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clio Gould.
    • English String Classics 2: Vaughan Williams/Warlock/Tippet/Elgar etc.
    • Apex.
    • 7.

  • Peter Warlock

    Pavane (Capriol Suite)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clio Gould.
    • Apex.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Festival Scherzo

    Performer: Martin Roscoe. Ensemble: Guildhall String Ensemble. Conductor: Robert Salter.
    • HYPERION.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Valerie Capers

    Portraits in Jazz - Bossa Brasilia

    Performer: Maria Corley.
    • SOULSCAPES: PIANO MUSIC BY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN.
    • Albany.
    • 11.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major Op.20`4 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 20 Nos. 4-6.
    • BIS.
    • 4.

  • Edvard Grieg

    In Autumn, Op. 11

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Jules Massenet

    Meditation from Thais

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Florence Price

    Symphony no.3 in C minor (Juba)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.

  • G枚ran Fr枚st

    Klezmer Dance no.2

    Performer: Martin Fr枚st. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Sony 88875065292.
    • Sony.
    • 3.

  • Sir Stephen Hough

    Nocturne (September 10, 2001)

    Performer: Elisabeth Brauss.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in B minor for 4 violins, RV.580

    Ensemble: Brecon Baroque. Director: Rachel Podger.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.

  • Richard Wagner

    Siegfried Idyll

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Mond, so gehst du wieder auf (Lieder des Abschieds Op.14)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Helmut Deutsch.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Concerto No 2 in D minor, Op 40 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Neville Marriner.
    • Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Nos. 1&2: Perahia.
    • CBS.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Fri 7 Nov 2025 06:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3