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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

Last on

Thu 15 May 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no.8 in C minor Op.13 'Pathetique' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ingrid Fliter.
    • Beethoven: Sonatas.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    The Willow Song (Othello - suite Op.79)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Fawzi Haimor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26: II. Poco adagio

    Performer: Katarzyna Budnik-Gałązka. Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Performer: Maria Nowak. Performer: Yuya Okamoto.
    • Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 2 & 3.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No.98, 'Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan': opening chorale

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Bach Cantatas: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 13.
  • Charles Gounod

    Faust (Act 2 Waltz)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue in F major Op.10

    Performer: Tom Poster. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 17.
  • Sylvius Leopold Weiss

    Passacaglia

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić.
    • Passacaglia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • William Lawes

    Pavane from Royal Consort Suite No 10 in B flat major

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Lawes: The Royal Consort.
    • Linn Records.
    • 57.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Quintet in A Major K.581 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.
    • Mozart & Weber Quintets.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
    • 5.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 2, Op. 64ter: V. Romeo and Juliet Before Parting

    Conductor: Elim Chan. Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra.
    • All These Lighted Things.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 7.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cello Sonata in B-Flat Major, RV 47: I. Largo

    Performer: David Watkin. Performer: Robert King.
    • Vivaldi: The Complete Cello Sonatas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Edward Elgar

    La Capricieuse Op.17 for violin and piano

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Enrico Pace.
    • DECCA.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Rigaudon (Le tombeau de Couperin)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: II. Fugue

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 7.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, H VIIe 1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Maurice André. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jesús López Cobos.
    • Haydn/Telemann/Albinoni: Trumpet Concertos: Andre/LPO/Lopez-Cobos.
    • EMI.
    • 3.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    6 Pieces, Op. 51: No. 6. Valse sentimentale

    Performer: Pablo Ferrández. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • 6 Pieces, Op. 51: No. 6. Valse sentimentale.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Gondoliers : Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Sullivan: Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Berceuse in D flat major, Op.57

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • DG.
  • Gustav Holst

    Cotswold symphony H.47 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Holst: Cotswolds Symphony.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Isaac Albéniz

    Cadiz (Suite española)

    Music Arranger: Unspecified. Performer: John Williams.
    • Echoes of Spain.
    • CBS.
    • 7.
  • Arturo Márquez

    Danzon No. 2 (Live From Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles / 2010)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Rossini: Overtures And Arias / Latin American Favorites (Live From Walt Disney C.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.
  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Warlock: The Curlew/Capriol/Serenade etc: Ainsley/Nash Ensemble/Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in A flat major Op.46 no.3

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Brahms: Hungarian Dances &Dvorak: Slavonic Dances: Haitink.
    • Philips.
    • 16.
  • Melissa Dunphy

    O Oriens

    Choir: Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • A Pembroke Christmas.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 104.

Broadcast

  • Thu 15 May 2025 06:30