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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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3 hours

Last on

Fri 4 Jul 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Jean‐Joseph de Mondonville

    Sonate en symphonie in G major Op.3`5

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Archiv.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet No.12 in F major, Op.96 "American" (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Skampa Quartet.
    • American String Quartet & Quintet Op. 96-97.
    • Champs Hill.
    • 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chorale Prelude BWV687 'Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir'

    Performer: György Kurtág. Performer: Márta Kurtág.
    • Jatekok and Bach Transcriptions.
    • ECM.
    • 2.
  • Johann Strauss II

    North Sea Pictures (Waltz)

    Conductor: Lorin Maazel. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Neujahrskonzert / New Year's Concert 2005.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 4.
  • Gustav Holst

    Brook Green Suite

    Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Leigh O'Hara.
    • Fide et literis.
    • EMF Endeavours.
    • 5.
  • Bob Chilcott

    O Radix Jesse (Advent Antiphons)

    Performer: ѿý Singers.
    • Man I Sing.
    • Signum.
    • 9.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Mazurka-Oberek in D major

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Ensemble: The Abbey Road Ensemble. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.
    • EMI.
  • Claude Debussy

    Reverie

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • Nightfall.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Federico Moreno Torroba

    Castillos de España II: No. 6, Torija

    • Moreno-Torroba: Guitar Music, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.
  • Federico Moreno Torroba

    Castillos de España II: No. 2, Manzanares el Real

    • Moreno-Torroba: Guitar Music, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.
  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto after Sonata da Chiesa in D minor

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • Italian Concertos; Alison Balsom, Scottish Ensemble.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 20.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Le roi malgré lui: Danse slave

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • MERCURY.
  • Jessica Curry

    Communion

    Performer: London Voices.
  • T. Marvin Hatley

    Sunflower Waltz

    • The Beau Hunks Play The Original Laurel & Hardy Music.
    • Basta Audio-Visuals.
    • 11.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet no.1 in G Minor Op.25 (4th mvt)

    Orchestrator: Arnold Schoenberg. Orchestra: Gävle symfoniorkester. Conductor: Jaime Martín.
    • Brahms: Piano Quartet in G Minor (Orch. A. Schoenberg) - Parry: Elegy for Brahms.
    • Ondine.
    • 4.
  • Aaron Copland

    Our Town

    Performer: Lang Lang. Music Arranger: Vince Mendoza. Orchestra: Hungarian Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Péter Illényi.
    • New York Rhapsody.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo a Capriccio in G Major, Op.129: "Rage over the lost Penny"

    Performer: Ikuyo Nakamichi.
    • Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas Vol.3.
    • Sony Music Labels Inc..
    • 11.
  • Philip Glass

    Symphony for Eight

    Ensemble: Cello Octet Conjunto Ibérico. Conductor: Elias Arizcuren.
    • Glass Reflections.
    • Rights'Up.
    • 01.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Das Veilchen, K 476

    Performer: Geoffrey Parsons. Singer: Barbara Bonney.
    • TELDEC.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Two-Part Invention in E major, BWV 777; Two-Part Invention in E minor, BWV 778

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • Bach: Two-Part and Three-Part Inventions.
    • Decca.
    • 6-7.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave', Op.26

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • The Silver Violin: Nicola Benedetti.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68: II. Fugue

    Music Arranger: Kenneth Hesketh. Conductor: Sakari Oramo. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Ravel: La valse, M. 72 & Other Works.
    • BIS.
    • 201.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat major Op.42

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Piano Sonata No.3 etc: Ingrid Fliter.
    • EMI.
    • 12.

Broadcast

  • Fri 4 Jul 2025 06:30