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Kickstart your day with the best 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

Music Played

  • 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.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich habe genug (Cantata no. 82, BWV.82)

    Singer: Matthias Goerne. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Bach: Cantatas for Bass.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 110.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 7 in A major, Op 92 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: André Cluytens. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Beethoven The Collector's Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • Charles Gounod

    Petite Symphonie for Wind Instruments - 3rd movt: Scherzo

    Orchestra: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Decca.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Béatrice et Bénédict (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Berlioz: OVertures: Staatskapelle Dresden/Davis.
    • RCA.
    • 5.
  • Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Moments musicaux, D. 780: No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor. Moderato

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonata & Moments musicaux.
    • Hyperion.
  • John Barry

    Somewhere In Time (Main Theme)

    Conductor: John Debney. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
    • Somewhere In Time (Original Motion Picture).
    • Varese Sarabande.
    • 1.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Maskarade (Overture)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 8.
  • Mieczysław Weinberg

    Aria, Op 9

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Ensemble: Kremerata Baltica.
    • Songs of Fate.
    • ECM New Series.
    • 7.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61: I. Scherzo (Transcr. Rachmaninof

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Music Arranger: Sergey Rachmaninov.
    • Mendelssohn.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.
  • John Dowland

    Flow my tears/Child of Wonder

    Composer: Eric Whitacre. Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Choir: Los Angeles Master Chorale.
    • Rise.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Study in G major, Op 10 No 5, 'Black key'

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Gayaneh: Sabre Dance

    Conductor: Paavo Järvi. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France.
    • 100 Komponisten, die man gehört haben muss.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 94.
  • José de San Juan

    A la Fiesta

    Ensemble: Cantoria. Conductor: Jorge Losana.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Wiener Blut

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev.
    • Sony.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Concerto in F Major, Hob. XVIII:3 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
    • Haydn: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 11.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Suite in A major, Op 98b (American)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Angelo Badalamenti

    Twin Peaks Theme

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Swan.
    • Light and Shadow.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Tue 8 Jul 2025 06:30