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Start the day on the right note 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

Last on

Tue 6 May 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    3 Nocturnes Op.9 (no.2 in E flat major)

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires.
    • DG.
    • 2.
  • Josef Suk

    Serenade for Strings in E flat major, Op 6 (1st mvmt, Andante con moto)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Kodály: Hungarian Rondo, Summer Evening; Suk: Serenade for Strings in E-Flat Maj.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 8.
  • Jorge Cardoso

    Milonga

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • MiloÅ¡ Karadaglić - Latino Gold.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Oboe Concerto in D Minor

    Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Reinut Tepp.
    • Bach: Oboe Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 4.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.4 in F minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4, Capriccio Italien: Berliner Philharmoniker, Ozawa.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 3.
  • Henriette Renié

    Harp Concerto in C minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Emmanuel Ceysson. Orchestra: Orchestre national Avignon-Provence. Conductor: Samuel Jean.
    • Belle Époque.
    • ±·²¹Ã¯±¹±ð.
    • 4.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op 64 No 5, 'Lark' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Cavi-music.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe Concerto in F Minor, TWV 51:f1 (Trans. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: Pinnock's Players. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Baroque Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Schon Rosmarin

    Performer: Ray Chen. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • The Golden Age.
    • DECCA.
    • 8.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Os justi

    Choir: Choir of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh. Choir: Choir of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh. Conductor: Duncan Ferguson. Conductor: Duncan Ferguson.
    • Bruckner Motets.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 16.
  • Vivian Ellis

    Coronation Scot

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra. Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • The Best Of British Light Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Piano Concerto (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Doreen Carwithen. Work incl. Overture (ODTAA), Suffolk suite and others.
    • Chandos.
    • 3.
  • John Dowland

    Flow my tears/Child of Wonder

    Composer: Eric Whitacre. Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Choir: Los Angeles Master Chorale.
    • Rise.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A major K.581 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet. Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Quintet: Martin Frost.
    • BIS.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Four Characteristic Waltzes (Valse de la reine)

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 8.
  • William Walton

    5 Bagatelles for guitar: no.1; Allegro

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Dreams and Fancies. Eglish Music for Solo Guitar.
    • DELPHIAN.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.7 in A major Op.92 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Saito Kinen Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • DECCA.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Whitacre: Cloudburst & other choral works: Polyphony, Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.
  • Elfrida Andrée

    Piano Quintet in E minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Lena Johnson. Ensemble: The Stockholm Quartet.
    • Caprice.
  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March in C major Op.39 no.5

    Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • CHANDOS CHAN.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Concerto in 7 parts (No.4 in G minor)

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Ensemble: Europa Galante.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto (1st mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Grieg, Schumann: Piano Concertos: Andsnes, Jansons.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Bastian Chilese

    Canzon in echo à 8

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Battaglie and Lamenti: 1600-1660 Monteverdi, Peri, Fontei, Strozzi.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 5.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    La bohème, Act 1: "Che gelida manina" (Rodolfo)

    Singer: Pene Pati. Orchestra: Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume.
    • Nessun dorma.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.
  • Franz von Suppé

    Pique-Dame (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Suppe: Overtures and Marches.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Tue 6 May 2025 06:30