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Boost your morning 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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Wed 18 Jun 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Franz Liszt

    St. Francis of Assisi Preaching to the Birds

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Alfred Brendel - Liszt - Artist's Choice.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works.
    • Onyx.
    • 04.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in B flat major, Op 18 No 6 (5th mvt)

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • Beethoven - The Complete String Quartets Vol. 1.
    • Zig Zag Territories.
    • 5.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sinfonia (Cantata no.35 'Geist und Seele wird verwirret')

    Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Director: Ottavio Dantone.
    • Bach: Sinfonia: Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Juliet - the young girl (Romeo and Juliet - suite no. 2)

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Prokofiev: The Symphonies.
    • BIS.
    • 501.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in E minor, H.XVI:34 - i) Presto

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Alfred Brendel - Great Pianists of the 20th Century Vol.12.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Missa Regina coeli (Kyrie)

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Palestrina - Volume 3.
    • Coro.
    • 10.
  • Jean‐Joseph de Mondonville

    Sonate en Symphonie in B flat major Op.3`3

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony no.2 in E minor Op.27 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2, Prelude in C# Minor.
    • Chandos.
    • 103.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 9 in E flat major, K 271 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel. Conductor: Charles Mackerras. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Alfred Brendel The Farewell Concerts.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dances - series 1 (Op. 46); No.1 in C major

    Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Tomáš Brauner.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Pirates of Penzance (Overture)

    Orchestra: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: John Pryce-Jones.
    • Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures: Various performers.
    • TER.
    • 2.
  • Jules Massenet

    "Adieu, notre petite table" (Manon)

    Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. Orchestra: Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie.
    • Massenet: Manon.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 31.
  • Simon Fraser

    The Beauty of the North; Miss Dumbreck

    Composer: Anonymous. Music Arranger: Maxwell String Quartet. Ensemble: Maxwell String Quartet.
    • Haydn: String Quartets Op.71.
    • Linn.
    • 05.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Solveig's Song In the Hall of the Mountain King

    Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • Grieg: Orchestral Music (Peer Gynt Suite).
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 73: II. Adagio ma non troppo

    Performer: Arthur Stockel. Orchestra: Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leo McFall.
    • Weber: Clarinet Concertos, Clarinet Quintet.
    • 貹é.
    • 2.
  • Anatoliy Kos-Anatolskyi

    The Shawl of Dovbush: Romance (Arr. for Violin & Piano by Anonymous)

    Performer: Markiyan Melnychenko. Performer: Benjamin Martin.
    • Postcards from Ukraine, Vol. 1: Violin Miniatures.
    • Toccata Next.
    • 09.
  • Eleanor Daley

    Grandmother Moon

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 11.
  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Mirare.
  • Franz Liszt

    Années de pèlerinage - Première année: Suisse - Vallée d'Obermann

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto in B-Flat Major, III. Allegro assai

    Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Ensemble: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • Antonín Kraft, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cello Concertos.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 6.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Vesperae solennes de confessore (K 339): Laudate Dominum

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Mozart: Kronungsmesse / Vesperae K339.
    • Editions L'Oiseau Lyre.
    • 12.
  • Emanuele Barbella

    Concerto for Mandolin, Strings and Basso continuo in D - mov. 1

    Performer: Avi Avital. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • DG.
  • William Grant Still

    Symphony no.1 'African-American' (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Fort Smith Symphony. Conductor: John Jeter.
    • Still: Afro-American Symphony.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

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  • Wed 18 Jun 2025 06:30