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Wake up your senses 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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3 hours

Music Played

  • Frederick Delius

    La Calinda (Koanga)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • EMI.
  • Charles Gounod

    Ave Maria

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • SONY.
  • Lars‐Erik Larsson

    A Winter's Tale - En Vintersaga

    Conductor: Stig Westerberg. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Larsson: Pastoralsvit - En vintersaga - m.fl..
    • Swedish Society.
  • Edvard Grieg

    The Brook, Op 62 No 4 (Lyric Pieces)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • EMI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme - Sleepers Awake

    • Bach Inspirations.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 19.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Kreisler: Tambourin chinois, Op. 3 (Arr. for Violin and Orchestra by McAlister)

    Music Arranger: Clark McAlister. Conductor: Long Yu. Orchestra: Shanghai Municipal Committee Band.
    • Kreisler: Tambourin chinois, Op. 3 (Arr. McAlister for Violin and Orchestra).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • William Grant Still

    Summerland (3 Visions)

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh‐Mason.
    • Fantasie.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 8 in F major, Op 93 (4th mvt)

    Conductor: Günter Wand. Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Wand, NDR-Sinfonieorchester.
    • RCA Classics.
    • 8.
  • Guillaume de Machaut

    Dame, je sui cilz / Fins cuers doulz

    Singer: Margaret Philpot. Singer: Rogers Covey‐Crump. Singer: Peter McCrae. Choir: Gothic Voices. Choir: Gothic Voices. Director: Christopher Page.
    • Hyperion.
  • Claude Debussy

    Lindaraja

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Performer: Vovka Ashkenazy.
    • Debussy/Ravel: Music for 2 pianos: Ashkenazy/Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
    • 5.
  • Franz Schubert

    Sonata for arpeggione and piano (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Johan Wagenaar

    Waltz Cycle: Wiener Dreivierteltakt, Op. 38

    Conductor: Riccardo Chailly. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
    • Wagenaar: Orchestral Works.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Barcarolle No. 12 en Mi Bémol Majeur, Op. 106bis

    Performer: Jean‐Claude Pennetier.
    • Fauré: Intégrale de l'œuvre pour piano, Vol. 4.
    • Mirare.
    • 11.
  • John Ireland

    A Downland Suite (3rd mvt, Minuet)

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Isaac Albéniz

    Sevilla (Suite Espanola no.1)

    Music Arranger: Marcelo Kayath. Performer: Marcelo Kayath.
    • IMP Classics.
    • PCD 876.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for Three Violins in D Major, BWV 1064R: I. Allegro

    Orchestra: Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra.
    • J. S. Bach: The Complete Violin Concertos.
    • Les Productions Analekta Inc..
    • 22.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Fête polonaise

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto No 2 in E flat, Op 74 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia.
    • Weber: Concertante Works for Clarinet and Horn: Michael Collins.
    • Chandos.
    • 11.
  • Franz Waxman

    Carmen Fantasy (after Themes by Bizet)

    Performer: Himari. Performer: Chelsea Wang.
    • Decca.
    • 00028948712243.
  • Franz Liszt

    Au bord d'une source (Années de Pèlerinage, 1er année: Suisse, S160)

    Performer: Tianxu An.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 "Jupiter": I. Allegro vivace

    Conductor: Riccardo Minasi. Ensemble: Ensemble Resonanz.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41 "Jupiter".
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 201.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D minor Kk.141

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Erato.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Entr'acte and Waltz (Eugene Onegin)

    Choir: The John Alldis Choir. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DECCA.

Broadcast

  • Tue 8 Apr 2025 06:30