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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 unusual creaking call of our coastal puffin, with music including Elgar's Sea Pictures. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

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Music Played

  • William Byrd

    Upon a Summer's day

    Performer: Jacob Heringman. Performer: Lynda Sayce. Choir: Alamire.
    • Inventa.

  • Augusta Holm猫s

    Ludus pro patria: II. La Nuit et l'Amour

    Conductor: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon.
    • Aux 茅toiles - French Symphonic Poems.
    • Bru Zane.
    • 7.

  • Edward Elgar

    Sea Pictures; 1. Sea Slumber Song

    Singer: Marie鈥怤icole Lemieux. Orchestra: Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Erato.

  • John Field

    Nocturne No. 14 in G Major, H. 58

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Field: Nocturne No. 14 in G Major, H. 58.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D major Kk.119 + Sonata in E major Kk.215

    Music Arranger: Martin Butler. Performer: William Howard. Ensemble: The Schubert Ensemble.
    • NMC.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons: June - Barcarolle

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
    • DG.
    • 6.

  • Claude Debussy

    Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥� Philharmonie. Conductor: Klaus M盲kel盲.
    • Stravinsky: Petrushka; Debussy: Jeux, Pr茅lude.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 17.

  • Pietro Locatelli

    Introduttione teatrale in D major Op.4 No.1

    Ensemble: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • NAIVE.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Falstaff, Act III: Dal labbro il canto estasiato vola

    • Bel canto.
    • Opus Arte.
    • 10.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Spem in alium

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • Decca.

  • Joaquim Malats

    Serenata espanola

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre.
    • Sony.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite, Op. 40: V. Rigaudon

    Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Richard Tognetti.
    • Grieg: holberg suite - string quartet in g minor - 2 elegiac melodies - erotikk.
    • BIS.
    • 12.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Improvisation on the Blue Danube Waltz

    Performer: Konstanin Scherbakov. Music Arranger: Max Reger.
    • Strauss: Transcriptions: Scherbakov.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Caroline Shaw

    and the Swallow

    Choir: Tenebrae. Director: Nigel Short.
    • A Prayer for Deliverance.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
    • 4.

  • William Grant Still

    Summerland (3 Visions)

    Performer: Jeneba Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Fantasie.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 331 "Alla turca": III. Alla turca

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Music Arranger: Robert Childs. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • Virtuoso: Music for Euphonium & Brass Band.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
    • 5.

  • Gerald Finzi

    A Severn Rhapsody Op.3

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit - The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E flat major, Op.38 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • Farrenc: Nonet & Clarinet Trio.
    • Divox.
    • 4.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in G Minor, RV 315 "L'estate"

    Performer: Th茅otime Langlois de Swarte. Ensemble: Le Consort.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Valerie Capers

    Sweet Mr. Jelly Roll (Portraits in Jazz)

    Performer: Maria Corley.
    • SOULSCAPES: PIANO MUSIC BY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN.
    • Albany.
    • 4.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.

Broadcast

  • Sun 1 Jun 2025 06:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3