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The finest classical music to elevate your morning

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

  • Ernest Tomlinson

    Little Serenade

    Orchestra: The Iain Sutherland Orchestra. Conductor: Iain Sutherland.
    • Classical Pops Concert: British Light Classics!.
    • Menuetto Classics.
    • 2.

  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez

    Performer: Rapha毛l Feuill芒tre. Orchestra: Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: G谩bor Tak谩cs鈥怤agy.
    • Spanish Serenades.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).

  • Will Todd

    The Call of Wisdom

    Choir: Tenebrae. Performer: James Sherlock. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Todd: The Call of Wisdom.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV816: Gavotte, Bourree, Loure & Gigue

    Performer: Francesco Tristano.
    • Naive.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 41 in C major, K 551, 'Jupiter' (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Mozart - Symphonies Nos 40 & 41"Jupiter"Bernstein,Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • DGG.
    • 3.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Concerto for Oboe and Strings in A Minor, 1st movement

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Jean-Baptiste Loeillet

    Trio Sonata in F Major, Op. 2 No. 2: IV. Allegro

    Ensemble: Epoca Barocca.
    • Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of London: Trio Sonatas.
    • CPO.
    • 404.

  • William Sterndale Bennett

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 4: III. Vivace giocoso

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Sterndale Bennett: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-3 (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 74.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Nabucco, Act III - Va pensiero

    Choir: Metropolitan Opera Chorus. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin. Orchestra: The Met Orchestra.
    • A Concert for Ukraine.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Samuel Coleridge鈥怲aylor

    Un Sonnet d'Amour from Petite Suite de Concert, Op.77

    Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, orchestral works.
    • MARCO POLO.
    • 4.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Kaiser-Walzer, Op 437

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • Capriccio.

  • Gerald Finzi

    My Spirit Sang All Day, Op.17 no.3

    Ensemble: Apollo5.
    • O Radiant Dawn.
    • VCM.
    • 15.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Amadigi di Gaula (Overture)

    Ensemble: Barokksolistene. Director: Bjarte Eike.
    • London Calling: Barokksolistene.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Florence Price

    Piano Quintet in A Minor (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.
    • American Quintets.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 74, 'Path茅tique' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony no.6 etc.: Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Dausgaard.
    • BIS.
    • 3.

  • Emily Hall

    Eternity (feat. Olivia Chaney)

    • bigo & twigetti.

  • Antoine Forqueray

    Suite No.1 in D Minor: V. La Portugaise

    Performer: Caroline Nicolas. Performer: Kevin Payne.
    • Avie.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Largo al factotum (The Barber of Seville)

    Singer: Michael Spyres. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: Marko Letonja.
    • Baritenor.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C major, RV 558, 'con molti strumenti'

    Ensemble: Europa Galante. Conductor: Fabio Biondi.
    • Vivaldi: Concerti Per Mandolini: Europa Galante.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 1.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasy Pieces, Op 73: No 1

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Christopher Glynn.
    • The Shepherd On The Rock.
    • Signum.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    24 Preludes, Op. 34: No. 15 in D-Flat Major. Allegretto

    Performer: Andrey Gugnin.
    • Shostakovich: 24 Preludes, Op. 34; Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2.
    • Hyperion.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: I. Moderato

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Tharaud plays Rachmaninov.
    • Erato/Warner Classics.
    • 1.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Solveig's Song (from 'Peer Gynt Suite')

    Orchestra: Malm枚 SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Naxos.

  • Thom Yorke

    Suspirium

    Lyricist: Thom Yorke. Music Arranger: Benjamin Rimmer. Ensemble: Jess Gillam.
    • TIME.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Schm眉cke dich, o liebe Seele (Cantata No 180)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Choir: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Cantatas: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 13.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Dance of Nymphs and Reapers (Suite from The Tempest)

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

Broadcast

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