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Breakfast with the best 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 ornithology's most embarrassing dad dresser - the ruff - with music including Ronald Binge's Elizabethan Serenade. And there's another Father's Day treat with Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto - conducted by his son Maxim with his grandson Dmitri Jnr as soloist.

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Sun 15 Jun 2025 06:30
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Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (2nd mvmt, Andante)

    Performer: Tine Thing Helseth. Orchestra: The Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces. Orchestra: The Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces.
    • Trumpet Concertos.
    • Simax Classics.
    • 2.

  • Florence Price

    Symphony No 4 in D minor (2nd mvmt, Andante cantabile)

    Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra.
    • Florence Price: Symphony No. 4 鈥� William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Violin Sonata in G major (2nd mvt, 'Blues')

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova. Performer: Katia Lab猫que.
    • Viktoria Mullova - Recital, with Katia Labeque.
    • Onyx.
    • 11.

  • Ronald Binge

    Elizabethan Serenade

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nick Davies.
    • Here Come the Classics, Vol. 3.
    • RPO.
    • 3.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in G minor Op.6`6 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Handel: Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op.6 Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini.
    • Decca.

  • Alexander Borodin

    In the Steppes of Central Asia

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Borodin: Requiem/Polovtsian Dances: Philharmonia Orchestra: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Cala.
    • 8.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Whispers of Summer

    Lyricist: Kathleen Easmon. Choir: London Choral Sinfonia. Conductor: Michael Waldron.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Choral Works.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 203.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No.2 in D Major, 3rd Movement

    Performer: Chloe Chua. Conductor: Hans Graf. Orchestra: Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
    • PentaTone Music B.V..

  • George Gershwin

    An American in Paris

    Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler.
    • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & An American in Paris.
    • Masterworks.
    • 2.

  • Claude Debussy

    Dr Gradus ad Parnassum (Children's Corner)

    Performer: Simon Trpceski.
    • Debussy: Images/Children's Corner etc: Simon Trpceski.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 3.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Salve regina for 5 voices

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • The Golden Renaissance: Palestrina.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Strauss

    Frederica-Polka, Op 239

    Conductor: John Georgiadis. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • Johann Strauss: In London: London Symphony Orchestra/Georgiadis.
    • Chandos.
    • 2.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Cello Concerto in E-Flat Major, G. Deest: III. Allegro

    Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Conductor: Nicholas Ward. Orchestra: Northern Chamber Orchestra.
    • Boccherini: Cello Concertos, Nos. 9-12.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.

  • Henryk Miko艂aj G贸recki

    Totus Tuus

    Composer: Henryk Miko艂aj G贸recki. Choir: 蜜芽传媒 Singers. Conductor: Bo Holten.
    • Music of the Twentieth Century.
    • Signum-Cala.
    • 17.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto No.5 in F minor (2nd & 3rd mvts)

    Performer: David Fray. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Bach: Piano Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Crisantemi for String Orchestra

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Puccini: Messa di Gloria, Preludio sinfonico & Crisantemi.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 18.

  • Hiroyuki Sawano

    Bauklotze (From "Attack on Titan")

    Performer: Andrea Cicalese. Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Performer: Tim Allhoff. Music Arranger: Jan-Peter Kl枚pfel. Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Michael England.
    • Bauklotze (From "Attack on Titan").
    • Masterworks/Sony Music.
    • 1.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Sleeping Beauty Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
    • 11.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Glazunov: The Seasons, Op.67: 3. Summer

    Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Flight of the Bumblebee from "Tsar Saltan"

    Performer: Jan Vogler. Orchestra: Dresdner Kapellsolisten. Conductor: Helmut Branny.
    • My Tunes Vol. 2.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto No 2 in F major, Op 102 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Dmitri Maximovich Shostakovich. Conductor: Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich. Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al.
    • Shostakovich: Piano concerto no. 2: I Musici de Montr茅al.
    • CHANDOS.

Broadcast

  • Sun 15 Jun 2025 06:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3