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Birdsong and Bach to banish those morning blues

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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Mon 24 Aug 2026 06:30
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Music Played

  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux Aurumque

    Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Director: Anna Lapwood.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.

  • Karen LeFrak

    Miami Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra: II. Romantico

    Performer: Sharon Isbin. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke鈥檚. Conductor: Enrico Lopez-Yanez.
    • KL2.

  • H茅l猫ne de Montgeroult

    Etude No.106 in B major

    Performer: Bruno Robilliard.
    • Helene de Montgeroult: La marquise et la marseillaise.
    • Editions Hortus.
    • 11.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: Gavotte I - II - I, Bourr茅e & Gigue

    Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • BIS.

  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade in E minor for strings, Op 20: 3rd movement

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Chandos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Major, K. 211: II. Andante

    Performer: Nikolaj Znaider. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos 1, 2 & 3.
    • LSO Live.
    • 5.

  • Charles Martin Loeffler

    Octet (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Graeme Steele Johnson.
    • Forgotten Sounds.
    • Delos.
    • 4.

  • Isobel Waller-Bridge

    Flying

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Alexander.
    • Penguin Audio.

  • Claude Debussy

    En bateau (Petite suite)

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Cristina Marton.
    • Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2013.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.

  • Luigi Cherubini

    Medee: Overture

    Orchestra: M眉nchener Kammerorchester. Conductor: Enrico Onofri.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Morning (Peer Gynt Suite no.1 Op.46)

    Orchestra: 麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • 101 Classics - The Best Loved Classical Melodies.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Griselda (Sinfonia)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Matheus. Conductor: Jean鈥怌hristophe Spinosi.
    • Naive.

  • Eduardo Di Capua

    O Sole Mio

    Performer: Felix Klieser. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Benjamin Marquise Gilmore.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks (Overture)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Some other time (On The Town)

    Singer: Frederica von Stade. Singer: Tyne Daly. Singer: David Garrison. Singer: Kurt Ollmann. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • DG.

  • Joseph Bologne

    Symphonie concertante in A major Op.9`2 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Yury Revich. Performer: Libor Je啪ek. Orchestra: Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice. Conductor: Michael Hal谩sz.
    • Saint-Georges: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

  • Trad.

    Shenandoah

    Music Arranger: James Erb. Choir: Mancunium Consort.
    • Shenandoah (Arr. for vocal ensemble by James Erb).
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 1.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Waltz 2 (Suite no.2 for jazz band)

    Orchestra: Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitry Yablonsky.
    • NAXOS.

  • Robert Schumann

    Introduction and Allegro appassionato op.92

    Performer: Jan Lisiecki. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • DG.

  • L茅on Bo毛llmann

    Suite gothique, Op. 25. iv Toccata

    Performer: Carlo Curley.
    • Decca.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 5 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Sibelius: Orchestral Works.
    • Ondine.
    • 103.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: I. Missa. Kyrie, Gloria: No. 1, Kyrie eleison I

    Ensemble: Pygmalion. Conductor: Rapha毛l Pichon.
    • J. S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in E major, Op 10 No 3

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 3.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    L'elisir d'amore - "Una furtiva lagrima"

    Singer: Benjamin Bernheim. Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia. Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume.
    • Benjamin Bernheim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Mon 24 Aug 2026 06:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3