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Birdsong and Bach to banish those morning blues

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

Last on

Tue 22 Apr 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Galina Grigorjeva

    In Paradisum

    Choir: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • Ondine.
  • Erik Satie

    Gnossienne no.4 'Lent'

    Performer: Anne Queffélec.
    • Satie: Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes & Sports et Divertissements: Anne Queffelec.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 90 "Dumky" (3rd. mvt.)

    Ensemble: Trio Wanderer.
    • Dvořák: Piano Trios, Op. 65 & 90.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 103.
  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Sussex Landscape Op.27 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich habe meine Zuversicht, BWV 188 (I. Sinfonia)

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Hans-Christoph Rademann.
    • J. S. Bach: The Motets.
    • EuroArts Music International.
    • 16.
  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Bachianas brasileiras No. 5 (I. Aria "Cantilena")

    Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Performer: Plínio Fernandes.
    • Saudade.
    • Decca Records US.
    • 6.
  • Edward MacDowell

    Suite for Large Orchestra (5th mvt. "Forest Spirits")

    Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Howard Hanson.
    • Howard Hanson conducts American Masterworks.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 72.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet in B flat major, K 458, 'Hunt' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Melos Quartett.
    • Mozart: Six Haydn Quartets: Melos Quartet.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Scott of the Antarctic (Main Titles; Distant Glacier; Penguin Dance)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Chandos.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 2 in D minor

    Ensemble: Duo Scaramouche. Ensemble: Malvina Renault-Vieville. Ensemble: Filippo Antonelli.
    • Duo Scaramouche - Grieg, Moszkowski, Brahms.
    • Scar.
    • 14.
  • Philip Glass

    Koyaanisqatsi (Koyaanisqatsi)

    Performer: Michael Riesman. Choir: Western Wind Vocal Ensemble. Conductor: Michael Riesman.
    • ISLAND.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No.2 in D Minor, BWV 1008 (Prelude)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.
    • Six Evolutions.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.
  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon. Conductor: Jun Märkl.
    • Naxos.
  • André Caplet

    Quintet, Op. 8 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov. Ensemble: Orsino Ensemble.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Richard Strauss

    Schlagobers, Op 70 (Finale)

    Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Fruhling in Wien.
    • Wiener Symphoniker.
    • 9.
  • Richard Rodgers

    South Pacific Overture

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jonathan Tunick.
    • South Pacific.
    • CBS.
    • 1.
  • William Byrd

    Laudibus in sanctis

    Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Director: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Cantiones Sacrae.
    • CRD.
    • 01.
  • Ernest John Moeran

    In the Mountain Country

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in C sharp minor (Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3: No. 2)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Rachmaninoff: Preludes, Op. 23 & 32.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No. 5 in E flat (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
    • Alpha.
  • Amy Beach

    Morning Glories (From Grandmother's Garden, Op.97)

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Guild.
  • Amy Beach

    Heartsease (From Grandmother's Garden, Op. 97)

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Beach: Fantasia, Les Rèves De Colombine, The Lotos Isles, A Hermit Thrush, From.
    • Guild GmbH.
    • 16.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No.6 in B Minor, Op. 74 "Pathetique" (2nd mvt.)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
    • Onyx.
  • Edward Gregson

    Cornet Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Richard Marshall. Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • Doyen.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.5 in C minor, Op.67 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7: Wiener Philharmoniker, Kleiber.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Invitation to the Dance Op.65

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough In Recital.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op.64`5 'The Lark' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • AVI MUSIC.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Waltz Suite, Op.110 (Since we met)

    Orchestra: Sao Paolo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 / Waltz Suite.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Tue 22 Apr 2025 06:30