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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

Music Played

  • Roman Hoffstetter

    String Quartet in F major Op.3`5 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Guildhall String Ensemble. Director: Robert Salter.
    • Pachelbel/Vivaldi/Handel/Haydn: Strings: Guildhall String Ensemble.
    • RCA.
    • 7.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Clarinet Concerto in A minor, Op 80 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra.
    • Chandos.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzona No.13 a 12

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Director: Paul McCreesh.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata in E Minor, BWV 914

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Toccatas, BWV 910-916.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony no.5 in D major (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
  • Tan Dun

    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

    Performer: Xieyang Chang. Performer: Shanghai Municipal Committee Band. Performer: Shanghai Chinese Orchestra. Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.
    • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - OST.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Thomas Tallis

    If ye love me

    Ensemble: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • GIMELL.
  • Pieter van Maldere

    Symphony in G Minor, Op. 4 No. 1: I. Allegro assai

    Orchestra: European Union Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jörg Faerber.
    • The Symphony in Europe, 1785.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.23 in A major K.488 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Sandra-Mae Lux

    When Autumn Calls

    Performer: Sandra-Mae Lux. Performer: Calum Gourlay. Performer: Sebastiaan de Krom. Lyricist: Alan Marriott. Ensemble: Christian Vaughan.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E-Flat Major, RV 256 "Il ritiro": III. Presto

    Conductor: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Ensemble: Le Consort.
    • Vivaldi: Concerti per una vita.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 115.
  • Florence Price

    Mississippi River Suite

    Orchestra: Women's Philharmonic. Conductor: Apo Hsu.
    • Koch.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Thieving Magpie (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Rossini OverturesThe Chamber Orchestra Of Europe.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 7.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Introduction and cortege

    Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Tom Poster.
  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Alma Redemptoris Mater

    Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.
    • DELPHIAN.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in D major, Wq 183 No 1 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Gustav Leonhardt.
    • CPE Bach: Symphonies: OAE, Leonhardt.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 1.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G Minor Op.23 No.5

    Performer: Nicholas McCarthy. Music Arranger: Nicholas McCarthy.
    • Left Note Records.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Octet in E flat major Op.20 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Ensemble: Sejong Soloists.
    • Haydn: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 - Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings.
    • Canary Classics.
    • 7.
  • Edward White

    Puffin' Billy for orchestra

    Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • HYPERION.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 "The Little"

    Performer: Canadian Brass. Music Arranger: Ronald Romm.
    • The Essential Canadian Brass.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.
  • Maurice Ravel

    DZé

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Chandos.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    O soave fanciulla (La bohème)

    Singer: Kristine Opolais. Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Jonas Kaufman: Nessun Dorma: The Puccini Album.
    • SONY.
    • 7.
  • César Franck

    Violin Sonata in A major M.8 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Beethoven, Schumann, Franck.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 7.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Mass in C Major, Hob. XXII:5 "Missa Cellensis": IV. Gloria in excelsis Deo

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Justin Doyle.
    • Haydn: Missa Cellensis, Hob. XXII:5.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 104.

Broadcast

  • Mon 2 Jun 2025 06:30