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Boost your morning with 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

  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade No 2 (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Riccardo Chailly. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.
    • Brahms: Serenades.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 10.
  • Trad.

    Suo Gan

    Performer: Alis Huws. Music Arranger: Haldon Evans.
    • Long Nights and Starry Skies.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61 - mov. 2 Andantino

    Performer: Rudolf Koelman. Orchestra: Sinfonietta Schaffhausen. Conductor: Paul K. Haug.
    • Challenge Classics.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Prelude No 12

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I & II.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 23.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Fugue No 12

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I & II.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 24.
  • Edward White

    Puffin' Billy for orchestra

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • HYPERION.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Canciones populares Españolas: IV. Jota

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia. Performer: Edgar Moreau. Music Arranger: Emilio Pujol. Music Arranger: Miguel Llobet Solés.
    • Leyendas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.
  • Manuel de Falla

    7 Canciones populares españolas: No 5 Nana

    Performer: Edgar Moreau. Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • Leyendas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Manuel de Falla

    7 Canciones populares españolas: No 6 Canción

    Performer: Edgar Moreau. Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • Leyendas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no.2 in F Minor Op.21 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Nelson Freire. Orchestra: The Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Lionel Bringuier.
    • Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2.
    • Decca.
    • 9.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (Scherzo)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Trittico Botticelliano: La Primavera

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Frizza.
    • Italian Perspectives.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 6.
  • Yo‐Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile

    Attaboy

    • The Goat Rodeo Sessions.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Trumpet Concerto in E Major, S.49: III. Rondo. Allegro

    Performer: Simon Höfele. Orchestra: 鶹 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Duncan Ward.
    • EDEL Music & Entertainment GmbH.
  • Cécile Chaminade

    Six pièces romantiques: Rigaudon

    Performer: Roberto Prosseda. Performer: Alessandra Ammara.
    • Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 27.
  • Valborg Aulin

    Parisian Scenes: Party Night at the Trocadéro

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Gustavsson.
    • Aulin, Moberg, Andrée: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos Sweden - Nilento.
    • 4.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Onyx.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Furies (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Zürcher Kammerorchester.
    • Journey to Mozart.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 27 in G Major, K199 [K.161b] - 1. Allegro

    Conductor: Richard Tognetti. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra.
    • ABC CLASSICS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C sharp minor 'Moonlight' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Beethoven.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    The Mermaid (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: James Judd. Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
    • Zemlinsky: Seejungfrau - Sinfonietta.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Jaakko Mäntyjärvi

    Pseudo-yoik

    Choir: Kantos Chamber Choir. Conductor: Ellie Slorach.
    • In Your Dreams.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 4.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Birds: Prelude

    Conductor: John Neschling. Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège.
    • Respighi: The Birds & Ancient Dances and Airs.
    • BIS.
    • 101.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Birds: The Dove

    Conductor: John Neschling. Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège.
    • Respighi: The Birds & Ancient Dances and Airs.
    • BIS.
    • 102.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Birds: The Hen

    Conductor: John Neschling. Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège.
    • Respighi: The Birds & Ancient Dances and Airs.
    • BIS.
    • 103.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Nightingale (The Birds - suite)

    Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. Conductor: John Neschling.
    • Respighi: The Birds & Ancient Dances and Airs.
    • BIS.
    • 104.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Birds: The Cuckoo

    Conductor: John Neschling. Orchestra: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège.
    • Respighi: The Birds & Ancient Dances and Airs.
    • BIS.
    • 105.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata K159 in C major 'La caccia'

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • BIS.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Khovanshchina: Dawn over the Moscow River

    Music Arranger: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 – Mussorgsky: Prelude to Khovanshchina.
    • LSO Live.
    • 105.
  • Augusta Holmès

    Vingt Melodies: Noël d'Irlande

    Ensemble: Piatti Quartet.
    • Phantasy.
    • Rubicon.
    • 9.

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