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Wake up your senses 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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Music Played

  • Philip Glass

    Violin Concerto no.1 (2nd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Amy Dickson. Performer: Amy Dickson. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mikel Toms.
    • Amy Dickson. Glass Tavener Nyman.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 2.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne in D flat major, Op 27 No 2

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • In the Night.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

  • Alessandro Marcello

    Oboe Concerto in C minor transc. for trumpet (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • Italian Concertos; Alison Balsom, Scottish Ensemble.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 5.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich lasse dich nicht, BWV Anh. 159

    Choir: Vox Luminis. Director: Lionel Meunier.
    • Bach: Motetten.
    • Ricercar.
    • 15.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 28 in C Major (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer.
    • Mozart: 45 Symphonies.
    • Dacapo.
    • 126.

  • Anton Stepanovich Arensky

    Piano Quintet in D major, Op 51 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Piers Lane. Ensemble: Goldner String Quartet.
    • Taneyev; Arensky - Piano Quintets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

  • Hamish MacCunn

    Highland Memories

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • WHITE LINE.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    String Quintet in E Major, Op. 11 No. 5 (3rd mvt.)

    Performer: Richard Lester. Ensemble: RT脡 Vanbrugh Quartet.
    • Boccherini: Cello Quintets, Vol. 1.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Rondo capriccioso in E major/minor Op.14

    Performer: Cristina Ortiz.
    • Encore!.
    • Collins Classics.
    • 2.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 98 in B flat major (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
    • Haydn: The London Symphonies: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Davis.
    • Philips.
    • 7.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Pugnani

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: John Lenehan.
    • BIS.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Flute Sonata (1st mvt)

    Music Arranger: Lennox Berkeley. Performer: Emily Beynon. Orchestra: 麻豆社 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Bramwell Tovey.
    • British Flute Concertos - Beynon/麻豆社 NOW/Tovey.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor": III. Rondo. Allegro

    Performer: Boris Giltburg. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 5 & 0.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.

  • Joseph Canteloube

    Bailero (Chants d'Auvergne)

    Singer: Kate Royal. Conductor: Edward Gardner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Kate Royal.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 103.

  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    Surrexit pastor bonus

    Music Arranger: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura. Director: Matthew Knight.
    • Naxos.

  • Eric Whitacre

    The Sacred Veil: XII. Child of Wonder

    Performer: Jeffrey Zeigler. Performer: Lisa Edwards. Choir: Los Angeles Master Chorale. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • The Sacred Veil.
    • Signum.

  • Franz Leh谩r

    Sirens of the Ball - waltz (The Merry Widow)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nick Davies.
    • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performs the Greatest Classics.
    • EMI Gold.
    • 2.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Double Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Performer: Tanja Tetzlaff. Orchestra: Berliner Symphoniker. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • Brahms: Double Concerto, Viotti: Violin Concerto No. 22; Dvor谩k: Silent Woods.
    • Ondine.
    • 103.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata K. 531

    Performer: Matteo Mela. Performer: Lorenzo Micheli. Music Arranger: Matteo Mela. Music Arranger: Lorenzo Micheli.
    • Scarlatti: 12 Sonatas.
    • Evidence (LTR).
    • 7.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String quartet no.12 in F major Op.96 'American' (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Escher String Quartet.
    • Dvo艡谩k: String Quartet No. 12 - Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 - Borodin: Str.
    • BIS.
    • 104.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No 4 in E flat, 'Romantic' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Henry Purcell

    Sound The Trumpet (Come Ye Sons of Art)

    Singer: James Bowman. Singer: Michael Chance. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Purcell Essentials.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 12.

  • Franz Xaver Richter

    Grande Sinfonie No 7 in C major

    Performer: Richard Egarr. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • Birth of the Symphony: Handel to Haydn.
    • AAM Records.
    • 5.

  • Doreen Carwithen

    String Quartet no. 1 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Music for String Quartet.
    • Somm Recordings.
    • 6.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Apres un reve

    Music Arranger: Pau Casals. Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Decca.

Broadcast

  • Wed 4 Feb 2026 06:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3