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Rise and shine 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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Tue 23 Dec 2025 06:30
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Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    December: Christmas (The Seasons Op.37b)

    Orchestrator: Douglas Gamley. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Decca Eloquence.

  • Bryan Kelly

    A Christmas Celebration (5th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Bryan Kelly: Orchestral Music.
    • Heritage Records.
    • 10.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto no.7 in G minor BWV.1058

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • J.S. Bach: Keyboard Concertos nos.1, 2 & 4: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7-9.

  • Trad.

    Away In A Manger

    Performer: Jervaulx Singers. Performer: Charlie Gower-Smith.
    • In The Stillness.
    • Convivium Records.

  • Sasha Johnson Manning

    The Trees

    Performer: Nicholas Ward. Lyricist: Carol Ann Duffy. Choir: Manchester Carollers. Orchestra: Northern Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Tanner.
    • The Manchester Carols.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E Major, RV 270 "Il riposo per il Santissimo natale"

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    H盲nsel und Gretel (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Philips.

  • Franz Schubert

    Ave Maria, D839, 'Ellens Gesang III'

    Music Arranger: Douglas Gamley. Singer: Renata Tebaldi. Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Anton Guadagno.
    • Christmas Stars: Sutherland, Te Kanawa, Pavarotti.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Michel Corrette

    Sinfonia No. 2 (Six Symphonies de Noel)

    Orchestra: La Fantasia. Director: Rien Voskuilen.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.

  • Trad.

    We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Arr. for Brass Band by John Rutter & Eric Wilson)

    Music Arranger: John Rutter. Music Arranger: Eric Wilson. Conductor: Nicholas Childs. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band.
    • Brass at Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 116.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Happiness (Waltz Suite Op.110)

    Orchestra: S茫o Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 - Waltz Suite.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.

  • William Walton

    Walton: What Cheer?

    Lyricist: Anonymous. Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Walton: Coronation Te Deum; Missa brevis; A Litany & Other Choral Works.
    • Hyperion.
    • 19.

  • Jeannette Sorrell

    Cold Frosty Morning / Old Christmas / Breakin' Up Christmas

    Performer: Jeannette Sorrell. Performer: Amanda Powell. Music Arranger: Ren茅 Schiffer. Music Arranger: Tina Bergmann. Music Arranger: Jeannette Sorrell. Ensemble: Apollo鈥檚 Fire.
    • AVIE.

  • Eleanor Daley

    The Huron Carol

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Choir: Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • A Pembroke Christmas.
    • Signum Records.
    • 13.

  • Harold Arlen

    Suite from 'The Wizard of Oz'

    Music Arranger: Herbert Stothart. Ensemble: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Trad.

    God rest ye merry gentlemen

    Performer: Simon Bell. Music Arranger: Sir David Willcocks. Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Director: Andrew Lumsden.
    • Christmas from Winchester: Winchester Cathedral Choir.
    • Regent.
    • 4.

  • Joanna Forbes L'Estrange

    Green Christmas

    Ensemble: Forbes L'Estrange Family.
    • Winter Light.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 117.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Rachmaninoff: Suite No. 2 for 2 Pianos, Op. 17: III. Romance. Andantino

    Performer: Daniil Trifonov. Performer: Sergei Babayan.
    • Rachmaninoff for Two.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Charles Ives

    A Christmas Carol

    Performer: Timothy Wakerell. Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Director: Robert Quinney.
    • Nowell Sing We!.
    • Novum.
    • 8.

  • Leroy Anderson

    Sleigh Ride

    Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler.
    • DG.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Christmas Eve Suite [mvts 1-4]

    Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Overture and Suites from the Operas.
    • Chandos.

  • Paul Williams

    The Muppet Christmas Carol "Suite"

    Performer: The Muppets. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra.
    • The Muppets Christmas Carol.
    • EMI Gold.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Tue 23 Dec 2025 06:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3