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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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  • Antonio Cesti

    L'Argia: Sinfonia

    Conductor: Antonio Florio. Orchestra: Cappella Neapolitana.
    • Tormento d鈥橝more.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 5.
  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romances, Op 22; No 1 Andante molto

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Schumann: Works for Oboe & Piano.
    • Chandos Records.
    • 106.
  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romances (no.2 Allegretto)

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Julius Drake. Music Arranger: Nicholas Daniel.
    • Schumann: Works for Oboe & Piano.
    • Chandos Records.
    • 5.
  • Clara Schumann

    3 Romances, Op 22: No 3, Leidenscha

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Schumann: Works for Oboe & Piano.
    • Chandos Records.
    • 106.
  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • Milos Karadaglic: Aranjuez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115: IV. Aria. Bete aber auch dabei

    Lyricist: Anonymous. Singer: C茅line Sheen. Ensemble: Le Banquet C茅leste.
    • J. S. Bach: Mein Geist.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 4.
  • Marianna Martines

    Piano Sonata in A Major (1st mvt)

    Performer: Ivan Rolon.
    • She Composed - 53 Piano Pieces by Women Composers.
    • Prospero Classical.
    • 43.
  • Frederick Delius

    On hearing the first cuckoo in spring

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quartet in F Major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Quartetto Bernardini.
    • Around Mozart. A Journey Through the Golden Age of the Oboe Quartet.
    • Arcana.
    • 3.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for 4 Violins RV 553

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Prince鈥怣onaco. Conductor: Gianluca Capuano.
    • Vivaldi: Concerti per vari strumenti II.
    • NAIVE.
  • Ambro啪 膶opi

    Sing Joyfully

    Choir: Vokalconsort Osnabruck. Conductor: Stephan Lutermann.
    • Fattoria Musica Records.
  • Florence Price

    String Quartet No 2: Juba

    Ensemble: Avalon String Quartet.
    • Price & Sowerby: Music for String Quartet.
    • Naxos.
    • 103.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Eternal source of light divine (Birthday Ode for Queen Anne)

    Performer: David Blackadder. Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Elin Manahan Thoms: Eternal Light.
    • Heliodor.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Sonata No 2 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Performer: Gloria Chien.
    • Here with You.
    • Cedille.
    • 201.
  • Charles Gounod

    Funeral march of a marionette

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Concerto No 1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Yilan Zhao. Orchestra: ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.
  • Andrea Bocelli, Bryn Terfel, London Symphony Orchestra & Barry Wordsworth

    Les p锚cheurs de perles, WD 13 - The Pearl Fishers' duet: C'茅tait le soir

    • BRYN.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.
  • Josef Strauss

    V茅locip猫de, Polka schnell Op. 259

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • Energy Classics.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 11.
  • Chris Thile

    New Bike

    Composer: Noam Pikelny. Composer: Chris Eldridge. Composer: Paul Kowert. Composer: Brittany Haas. Ensemble: Punch Brothers.
    • New Bike.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 1.
  • Edward Elgar

    La Capricieuse

    Performer: Daniel Lozakovich. Performer: Stanislav Soloviev.
    • Elgar: La Capricieuse Op. 17.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Elfrida Andr茅e

    Frithjof's Sea Voyage (Frithjof Suite, No 5)

    Orchestra: Norrk枚pings Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Hermann B盲umer.
    • Elfrida Andr茅e: Symphony No. 1 路 Fritiof-Svit.
    • CPO.
    • 105.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Cantique de Jean Racine, Op 11

    Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Performer: Timothy Ravalde. Performer: Graham Walker. Director: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Hear My Words: Choral Classics from St John's: Choir of St John's College, Cambr.
    • Chandos.
    • 13.
  • Kathryn Tickell

    New Minuet / Confluence

    Performer: Kathryn Tickell. Ensemble: The Side.
    • Kathryn Tickell & The Side.
    • Resilient Records.
    • 2.
  • Trad.

    The Nightingale (Orch. Rachimov)

    Music Arranger: Kamil Rachimov. Singer: Aigul Akhmetshina. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Daniele Rustioni.
    • Aigul.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 14.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto (1st mvt)

    Performer: Radu Lupu. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Grieg / Schumann: Piano Concertos.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Promenade 1 (Pictures from an Exhibition)

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Mussorgsky / Borodin: Berliner Philharmoniker / Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Fantasy in C Major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Schubert: Complete Works for Violin and Piano.
    • Hyperion.
  • Richard Strauss

    Concerto for Oboe and small orchestra (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Fran莽ois Leleux. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Sony Classical.

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