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Birdsong to banish those morning blues

Mark Forrest presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

Mark Forrest presents Radio 3鈥檚 Breakfast show live from Salford with birdsong and the best in classical music. This week's dawn chorus is the distinctive song of our native lapwing - or peewit - with music including Rachel Portman. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Sun 11 May 2025 06:30
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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Double Concerto in D minor BWV.1043 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • Bach: Double and Triple Concertos.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 02.

  • Gustav Holst

    Nocturne (A Moorside Suite)

    Music Arranger: Peter D枚rpinghaus. Ensemble: Salaputia Brass.
    • Roots.
    • Oehms Classics.
    • 202.

  • Rachel Portman

    Flight

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Anna Lapwood. Music Arranger: Anna Lapwood.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Lars鈥怑rik Larsson

    Pastoral

    Orchestra: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • CPO.

  • H茅l猫ne de Montgeroult

    脡tude no.28 in E Major

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • H茅l猫ne de Montgeroult: 脡tudes.
    • BIS.
    • 105.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No 2 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor Op.17 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.

  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    Tenebrae Responsories: Seniores populi - Ut lesum - Collegerunt

    Conductor: Nigel Short. Choir: Tenebrae.
    • Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 106.

  • Joan Trimble

    The Green Bough

    Performer: Una Hunt. Performer: Roy Holmes.
    • Joan Trimble: Songs and Chamber Music.
    • Marco Polo.
    • 13.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Concerto No. 1 in C major H.7b.1 for cello and orchestra: 1st mvt

    Performer: Alon Sariel. Music Arranger: Alon Sariel. Ensemble: K枚lner Akademie. Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens.
    • Vienna Mandolin Stories.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 4.

  • Franz Schubert

    Die Forelle

    Orchestrator: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Stanislas de Barbeyrac. Orchestra: Insula Orchestra. Conductor: Laurence Equilbey.
    • ERATO.

  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Casta Diva

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet. Music Arranger: Yvar Mikhashoff.
    • DECCA.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (A German Requiem)

    Choir: Swedish Radio Choir. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 4.

  • Leokadiya Kashperova

    Piano Trio, Op Posth

    Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio.

  • Giovanni Legrenzi

    La Basadonna

    Music Arranger: Bruno Maderna. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
    • ECM NEW SERIES.

  • Claude Debussy

    L'Isle joyeuse

    Performer: Seong-Jin Cho.
    • Debussy.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 17.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quintet in C major K.515 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Quatuor 脡b猫ne. Ensemble: Antoine Tamestit.
    • Mozart: String Quintets K. 515 & 516.
    • ERATO.
    • 4.

  • Yoko Shimomura

    Valse di fantastica

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Irene Delgado-Jim茅nez.
    • Women.
    • Sony.
    • 2.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Rusalka, Op. 114, B. 203: Song to the Moon

    Lyricist: Wolfgang Renz. Singer: Regula M眉hlemann. Ensemble: CHAARTS Chamber Artists.
    • Fairy Tales.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Florence Price

    Elfentanz

    Performer: Zhu Wang. Performer: Randall Goosby.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 'Scottish': II. Vivace non troppo

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Lahav Shani.
    • Warner Classics.

Broadcast

  • Sun 11 May 2025 06:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3