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Embrace the morning calm of classical music and birdsong

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

  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Norwegian Dances Op.35 (no.3)

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Petri Sakari.
    • CHANDOS : CHAN-9028.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in C major H.15.21 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio Wanderer.
    • Haydn: Piano Trios, HOB. XV:14, 18, 21, 26 & 31.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 109.
  • Joseph James

    Fantasie in F after Robert Schumann

    Composer: Robert Schumann. Conductor: Orlando Jopling. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Ensemble: The Schubert Ensemble.
    • Wanderer Fantasy.
    • Signum Records.
    • 7.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in A flat major, BWV.886

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • Johann Sebastian Bach - Das Wohltemperierte Clavier.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 9-10.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Il Signor Bruschino (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Rossini: Complete Overtures: ASMF, Marriner.
    • Philips.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane pour une infante défunte, arranged for Two Guitars by Julian Bream

    Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: John Williams. Music Arranger: Julian Bream.
    • Together - Julian & John.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 12.
  • Gustav Holst

    A Moorside Suite, (1928) - 2. Nocturne (Adagio)

    Conductor: Kenneth Dennison. Ensemble: The Fairey Band.
    • British Classical Jubilee.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 29.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Kaiser-Walzer, Op.437

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Johann Strauss: Waltzes & Polkas: Karajan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 7.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G Major, Kk. 13, L. 486

    Performer: Alim Beisembayev.
    • The Leeds International Piano Competition 2021 – Gold Medal Winner.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Danse des Polichinelles et des Histrions (The Maid of Orleans)

    Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. Conductor: Theodore Kuchar.
    • Naxos.
  • Ron Goodwin

    What Kind of Things?

    Ensemble: The King’s Singers.
    • Chandos.
  • Vittorio Monti

    áá

    Music Arranger: Yvan Cassar. Ensemble: Double Sens.
    • Carnets de voyage.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 14.
  • Erik Satie

    Gnossienne no.4 'Lent'

    Performer: Anne Queffélec.
    • Satie: Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes & Sports et Divertissements: Anne Queffelec.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 5.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no.4 in B flat major Op.60 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • Beethoven: The Symphonies: Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska.
    • BIS.
    • 3.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Sonata for Clarinet & Piano, FP 184: III. Allegro con fuoco - Tres anime

    • Nimbus Records.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in B flat major, RV 167

    Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Director: Andrea Marcon.
    • Vivaldi: Venice Baroque Orchestra/Marcon.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 31-33.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Africa - fantasy in G minor Op.89 for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Alexandre Kantorow. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.
    • Saint-Saëns: Works for Piano & Orchestra.
    • BIS.
    • 601.
  • Robert Schumann

    Marchenerzahlungen (Fairy Tales), Op 132, No.4

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Isabelle van Keulen. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • BIS.
  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No 5 in C major, Op 39

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Mark Elder.
    • Elgar: Sea Pictures, Polonia, Pomp and Circumstance Marches.
    • Halle.
    • 11.
  • Frederick Loewe

    If Ever I Would Leave You

    Performer: Mike Lovatt. Performer: James Davison. Performer: Graham Harvey. Performer: Jeremy Brown. Performer: Max Mills.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Pavane de la belle au bois dormant (Ma mère l'oye)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Yannick Nezet-Seguin Ravel Rotterdam Phiharmonic Orchestra.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 13.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata for Piano and Violin in E Minor, K. 304 - II. Tempo di minuetto

    • Mozart: Classical BBQ.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 360.

Broadcast

  • Thu 5 Jun 2025 06:30