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Start your day with classical music

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 features the doyen of our waterways: the swan, with music that just has to include Tchaikovsky.

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Sun 8 Jun 2025 06:30
蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Pavane, Op. 50

    Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra Basel. Conductor: Ivor Bolton.
    • The Secret Faur茅 2.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 9.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Recorder Concerto in F major (4th mvt)

    Performer: Peter Holtslag. Performer: Mark Caudle. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Conductor: Peter Holman.
    • Telemann: Recorder Concertos: Peter Holtslag, The Parley of Instruments.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    The Silver Swan

    Music Arranger: Christian Forshaw. Singer: Grace Davidson. Performer: Christian Forshaw. Performer: Alexander Mason.
    • Historical Fiction.
    • Integra Records.

  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Song of the Black Swan

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Thomas Ad猫s.
    • Steven Isserlis: The Complete RCA Recordings.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake, Op. 20, Act II: No. 13d, Dances of the Swans. Allegro moderato

    Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20.
    • Ondine.
    • 25.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Quartet in D major Op.71`2 for strings (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Apollon Musagete Quartet.
    • String Quartets.
    • OEHMS CLASSICS.
    • 2.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • H茅l猫ne de Montgeroult

    脡tude No. 101 in C-Sharp Major

    Performer: Ian Buckle.
    • Rubicon.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 10: I. Allegro energico

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Ensemble: Catalyst Quartet.
    • Uncovered, Vol. 1: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Azica Records.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    The Sicillian Vespers (Ballet of the Four Seasons: Summer)

    Orchestra: Orchestra La Scintilla. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • Accentus.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ave verum corpus

    Performer: Thomas Enhco. Music Arranger: Thomas Enhco.
    • Mozart Paradox.
    • SONY MASTERWORKS.
    • 4.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Matth盲uspassion, BWV 244: Erbarme dich, mein Gott, um meiner Z盲hren Wille

    Performer: Bojan 膶i膷i膰. Singer: Barnaby Smith. Ensemble: The Illyria Consort.
    • Barnaby Smith: Bach.
    • VOCES8 Records.
    • 6.

  • Mar铆a Luisa Anido

    Cancion del Yucatan

    Performer: Cinzia Milani.
    • A Tribute to Maria Luisa Anido.
    • Brilliant Classics Licensing BV.
    • 2.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Quartet in F major for strings: II. Assez vif - tres rythme

    Ensemble: Quatuor Debussy.
    • Ravels.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 2.

  • George Fenton

    The Blue Planet (Original Television Soundtrack)

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Concert Orchestra. Choir: The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. Conductor: George Fenton.
    • Silva Screen.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Moment Musical in B minor, Op 16 No 3

    Performer: Dmitri Alexeev.
    • Rachmaninov: Preludes, Op. 23 & 32 - Moments musicaux, Op. 16 - Morceaux de fant.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 16.

  • John Dunstable

    Veni Sancte Spiritus / Veni Creator Spiritus

    Ensemble: The Binchois Consort. Conductor: Andrew Kirkman.
    • HYPERION.

  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major D.803 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Bruno Schneider. Performer: Dag Jensen. Performer: Knut Eric Sundquist. Ensemble: Modigliani Quartet.
    • Schubert: Octet.
    • Mirare.
    • 3.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nicanor Zabaleta. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • DG.

  • Giovanni Antonio Guido

    Summer (The Four Seasons)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de l鈥橭p茅ra de Lyon. Director: Andr茅s Gabetta.
    • Chateau de Versailles.

  • Frederick Delius

    Midsummer Song

    Choir: Louis Halsey Singers. Conductor: Louis Halsey.
    • Delius Edition.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.

  • Robert Schumann

    Arabeske, Op. 18

    Performer: Fabrizio Chiovetta.
    • Schumann: Fantasie, Arabeske, Kinderszenen.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Sun 8 Jun 2025 06:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3