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The finest classical music to elevate your morning

Andrew Peach presents Radio 3鈥檚 Breakfast show live from Salford. 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

    Serenade in B flat major for 13 wind instruments, K.361 (3rd mvmt, Adagio)

    Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Mozart: Gran Partita - Wind Serenades K. 361 & 375.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 108.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    January (The Year)

    Performer: Lauma Skride.
    • Sony.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Romance Op.11

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 12.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Herr Gott, dich loben wir BWV 16: Aria: Geliebter Jesu, du allein

    Performer: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • J.S. Bach: Cantatas Vol. 16.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 16.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major for 2 trumpets, RV.537

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Crispian Steele鈥怭erkins. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Peter Holman.
    • Music for two trumpets from the Italian Baroque.
    • Hyperion.
    • 33.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio No. 6 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70, No.2 III. Allegretto ma non troppo

    Ensemble: Florestan Trio.
    • Beethoven: The Complete Music for Piano Trio, Vol. 1.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Robert Schumann

    Four Pieces from Carnaval

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Emmanuel Krivine.
    • ERATO.
  • Siri Dyvik

    Travel set

    Composer: Nils Okland. Music Arranger: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Conductor: Bjarte Eike.
    • The Alehouse Sessions.
    • RUBICON.
    • 9.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43: I. Allegretto

    Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic. Conductor: Klaus M盲kel盲.
    • Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7; Tapiola; 3 Late Fragments.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Otto Nicolai

    Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor: Ouvert眉re

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev.
    • Sommernachtskonzert 2025 / Summer Night Concert 2025.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 13.
  • Gregor Joseph Werner

    The Start of the New Year (Il Gennaro)

    Ensemble: Rheinisches Bach-Collegium.
    • Funny Program Music of the Baroque Period.
    • CPO.
    • 101.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.59 in A major H.1.59 'Fire' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Haydn 2032, Vol. 13: Horn Signal.
    • ALPHA.
    • 05.
  • Richard Rodgers

    My Favourite Things (The Sound of Music)

    Music Arranger: Sir Stephen Hough. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Nimbus.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Alisa Weilerstein Dvorak.
    • DECCA.
    • 1.
  • Trad.

    Here We Come A Wasslin'鈥

    Music Arranger: Jackie Oates. Singer: Jackie Oates. Singer: Belinda O'Hooley.
  • Jr. Johann Strauss

    Nordseebilder, Walzer, Op. 390

    Conductor: Christian Thielemann. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • New Year's Concert 2019 / Neujahrskonzert 2019 / Concert du Nouvel An 2019.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 5.
  • Arthur Wood

    Barwick Green (My Native Heath)

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics, Vol. 2.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

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