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Wake up 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 20 May 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Fritz Kreisler

    3 Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen: No. 2, Liebesleid (Arr. for Cello & Harp)

    Performer: Mathias Johansen. Performer: Silke Aichhorn.
    • Cello Meets Harp.
    • CPO.
    • 201.
  • Josef Suk

    Serenade for strings second movement

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Piano Concerto no.1 in E minor Op.11 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Kletzki.
    • EMI.
  • 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.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto no.2 in D major H.7b.2 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: TrondheimSolistene.
    • Pentatone.
  • Amy Beach

    Piano Quintet in F sharp minor Op.67 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Martin Roscoe. Ensemble: Endellion Quartet.
    • ASV.
  • Ivo Antognini

    Hope is the thing with feathers

    Lyricist: Emily Dickinson. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in E flat major, D.899 no.2

    Performer: Lars Vogt.
    • Ondine.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • William Walton

    Crown Imperial

    Ensemble: Giovanni Gabrieli. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • An English Coronation, 1902-1953.
    • Signum Records.
    • 47.
  • Claude Debussy

    Nocturne and Scherzo: Scherzo

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Thomas Adès.
    • RCA.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Sonata a 6 for trumpet, violins, violas and bc

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Director: Andrew Manze.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Gustav Holst

    Cotswold symphony

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Holst: Cotswolds Symphony.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • 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.
  • Tarquinio Merula

    Ruggiero

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Ostinato.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 11.
  • 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.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)

    Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D major, Kk.96

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Scarlatti: Sonatas.
    • Hyperion.
    • 015.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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  • Tue 20 May 2025 06:30