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Start the day on the right note with classical music

Emma Clarke presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Sat 24 May 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Ernest Chausson

    String Quartet in C minor, Op.35 (2nd mvt: Très calme)

    Orchestrator: Vincent d’Indy.
    • Chausson & Indy: String Quartets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Frederick Delius

    A Song before Sunrise (arr. for piano duet)

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa. Performer: Kathryn Stott. Music Arranger: Peter Warlock.
    • Delius - Arrangements for Piano 4 Hands by Peter Warlock.
    • BIS.
    • 4.
  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Asciugate i begli occhi (No. 14, Madrigali libro quinto, 1611)

    Choir: Exaudi. Conductor: James Weeks.
    • Gesualdo: Madrigali.
    • Winter & Winter.
    • 9.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Serenade for wind in D minor, Op.44 (3rd mvt: Andante con moto)

    Ensemble: Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Dvorak: Blaserserenaden.
    • EMI.
    • 3.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: VI. Gigue

    Performer: David Watkin.
    • Resonus Classics.
  • Scott Joplin

    Solace "A Mexican Serenade"

    Music Arranger: Jacqueline Thomas. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Golden Oldies - More Favourite Encores.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 15.
  • Ruth Gipps

    Symphony No.5, Op.64 (2nd mvt: Andante)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Gipps: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 6.
  • Franz Liszt

    Les Cloches de Genève [Années de pèlerinage, Book 1]

    Performer: David Quigley.
    • AVIE.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Urlicht (Symphony no.2)

    Music Arranger: Manchester Collective. Singer: Ruby Hughes. Ensemble: Manchester Collective.
    • End of My Days.
    • Bis.
    • 15.
  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Bachiana brasileira No.7 - 3rd mvt, Tocata (Desafio)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique Bátiz.
    • Villa:Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras Nos 1-9 / Guitar Concerto.
    • EMI.
    • 011.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No.6 in B flat major, BWV.1051 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Stephen Marvin. Performer: Jeanne Lamon. Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.
    • J.S. Bach: Six Brandenburg Concertos; Tafelmusik, Lamon.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Serenade in F major, Op.31 (3rd mvt: Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Five Nordic Masters: Svendsen / Stenhammer / Nielsen / Sibelius / Tubin.
    • BIS.
    • 14.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G major, "Gypsy Rondo" (3rd mvt, Rondo all'ongarese)

    Ensemble: Kungsbacka Trio.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios Hob XV 24, 25, 26 and 31.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.
  • Johan Halvorsen

    Maiden's Song arr. for Hardanger fiddle and piano

    Performer: Ragnhild Hemsing. Performer: Mario Häring. Music Arranger: Tormod Tvete Vik.
    • Berlin Classics.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Eduardo Mata.
    • Music of Manuel De Falla: Simon Bolivar Symophony Orchestra, Mata, Senn.
    • Dorian.
    • 1.
  • William Herschel

    Symphony No.13 in D major

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Bourrée fantasque

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Chabrier: Piano Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 18.
  • William Lawes

    Royall Consort Suite No.1 in D minor (Corants 1 & 2, Sarabande)

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • LINN.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 2 in D (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Bernhard Forck.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 - C.P.E. Bach: Symphonies, Wq 175 & 183/17.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 114.
  • Karen LeFrak

    Miami Concerto for guitar & orchestra (3rd mvt: Festivo)

    Performer: Sharon Isbin. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Conductor: Enrico Lopez-Yañez.
    • KL2.
  • Michael Torke

    Miami Grands (12th mvt: Everglades, under the stars)

    Ensemble: Miami Piano Circle. Conductor: Georgi Danchev.
    • Miami Grands.
    • Ecstatic Records.
    • 12.
  • Franz Schubert

    An Sylvia, D 891

    Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau.
    • DG.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesfreud

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Evgenia Startseva.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Sabre Dance (Gayane)

    Conductor: Aram Khachaturian. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Legends - Khachaturian: Spartacus: Wiener Philharmoniker.
    • Decca.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Sat 24 May 2025 06:30