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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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Fritz Kreisler
3 Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen: No. 2, Liebesleid (Arr. for Cello & Harp)
Performer: Mathias Johansen. Performer: Silke Aichhorn.- Cello Meets Harp.
- CPO.
- 201.
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Josef Suk
Serenade for strings second movement
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.- CHANDOS.
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Frédéric Chopin
Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor Op.11 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Maurizio Pollini. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Kletzki.- EMI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Was die Welt (Cantata no. 64 BWV.64)
Singer: Gillian Keith. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Director: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Cantatas Vol. 15: New York.
- SOLI DEO GLORIA.
- 5.
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Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto no.2 in D major H.7b.2 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: TrondheimSolistene.- Pentatone.
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Amy Beach
Piano Quintet in F sharp minor Op.67 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Martin Roscoe. Ensemble: Endellion Quartet.- ASV.
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Ivo Antognini
Hope is the thing with feathers
Lyricist: Emily Dickinson. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- HYPERION.
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu in E flat major, D.899 no.2
Performer: Lars Vogt.- Ondine.
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Dmitri Kabalevsky
Colas Breugnon Op.24 (Overture)
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Director: Vasily Petrenko.- Khachaturian, Mussorgsky, Shchedrin etc..
- Onyx.
- 01.
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Ilario Ferrari
Above the Clouds
Performer: Ilario Ferrari Trio. -
Michael Torke
Bright Blue Music
Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.- Michael Torke - Ecstatic Orange etc..
- Argo.
- 005.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet in B flat major, K 458, 'Hunt' (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Alban Berg Quartett.- Mozart: String Quartets No.16, K.428 and No.17, K.458.
- EMI.
- 4.
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William Walton
Crown Imperial
Ensemble: Giovanni Gabrieli. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- An English Coronation, 1902-1953.
- Signum Records.
- 47.
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Claude Debussy
Nocturne and Scherzo: Scherzo
Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Thomas Adès.- RCA.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Sonata a 6 for trumpet, violins, violas and bc
Ensemble: The English Concert. Director: Andrew Manze.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Gustav Holst
Cotswold symphony
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.- Holst: Cotswolds Symphony.
- Naxos.
- 2.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto no.1 in B flat minor, Op.23 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Beatrice Rana. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.- Beatrice Rana: Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev Piano Concertos.
- WARNER CLASSICS.
- 07.
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Tarquinio Merula
Ruggiero
Performer: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.- Ostinato.
- Alia Vox.
- 11.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Concerto no.1 in F minor Op.73 (1st mvt)
Performer: Jörg Widmann. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Peter Ruzicka.- Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, K. 622 - Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 - Widmann: Dr.
- Orfeo.
- 301.
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Aram Khachaturian
Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)
Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.- PENTATONE.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in D major, Kk.96
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- Scarlatti: Sonatas.
- Hyperion.
- 015.
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Florence Price
Symphony no.1 in E Minor (3rd & 4th mvts)
Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.- Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 3.
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George Frideric Handel
Eternal source of light divine (Birthday Ode for Queen Anne)
Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Performer: David Blackadder. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- Eternal Light: Elin Manahan-Thomas.
- Heliodor.
- 2.
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Johannes Brahms
String Sextet No 1 in B flat major, Op 18 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.- ALPHA.
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