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Wake up with classical music

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s classical breakfast show, including this week's 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century piece. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford, including ѿý Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, Norwegian composer, improviser and rock guitarist Oyvind Torvund marks generative A.I’s breakthrough year 2023 in his new work for the ѿý Symphony Orchestra.

You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

To listen on most smart speakers, just say 'Ask ѿý Sounds to play 3 Breakfast’

3 hours

Last on

Fri 11 Jul 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Francis Poulenc

    Mélancolie, FP 105

    • Stephen Hough's French Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Serenade in D minor, Op.44 (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Dvorak/Myslivecek: Blaserserenaden: Blaserensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor Op.10 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet, Clarinet Quintet.
    • HYPERION.
    • 8.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125 (Chorale Fantasia)

    Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Choir: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Bach, J.S.: Cantatas, Vol. 32 - Bwv 111, 123, 124, 125.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Niccolò Paganini

    Moto perpetuo in C major, Op 11

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Boston Symphony Orchestra - Great Recordings.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 62.
  • Dora Pejačević

    Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33; 2nd mvt Adagio con estro poetico

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Chandos.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid

    Performer: María Dueñas. Performer: Raphaël Feuillâtre. Music Arranger: Antoine Forqueray.
    • Kreisler: Liebesleid, Old Viennese Dance No. 2 (Arr. Fougeray for Violin and Gui.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.
  • Frederick Delius

    Spring morning

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in B minor for 4 violins and cello, RV 580 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Vivaldi: La Viole de gambe in Concerto: Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

    Quartet for Four Violins (3rd mvt)

  • William Byrd

    Ne irascaris, Domine

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • The Tallis Scholars Sing William Byrd.
    • Gimell.
    • 3.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat major Op.42

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

    Souvenir de Florence, Op.70 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Camerata de Lausanne.
    • Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings; Souvenir de Florence.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Can-Can (Orpheus in the Underworld)

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Kunzel.
    • William Tell and other favourites: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra/Kunzel.
    • Telarc.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Symphonic Rhapsody

    Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt. Orchestra: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Nielsen: Symphonies, Tone Poems & Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 28.
  • Amy Beach

    Peace I Leave with You

    Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Ensemble: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Ensemble: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Ensemble: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Ensemble: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.
    • All Things Are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Records.
    • 10.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata in F major Op.24 'Spring' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Michael Foyle. Performer: Maksim Štšura.
    • Challenge Classics.
  • Sarah Cattley

    Ivy, chief of trees

    Choir: The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford. Conductor: Will Dawes.
    • The Dawn of Grace.
    • Resonus.
    • 7.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Fête polonaise (Le Roi Malgré Lui)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Chabrier: España; Suite pastorale.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 11.
  • Øyvind Torvund

    Among the Clouds

    Choir: ѿý Singers. Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gabriella Teychenné.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Burlesque de Quixotte (Overture)

    Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Simon Standage.
    • Telemann: Burlesque De Quixotte: Collegium Musicum 90/Standage.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 - 1 st movt: Allegro affettuoso

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Samuel Barber

    Agnus Dei

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • TWENTY.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 8.
  • Giuseppe Martucci

    Tarantella Op.44'6

    Orchestra: Orchestra sinfonica di Roma. Conductor: Francesco La Vecchia.
    • Martucci: Complete Orchestral Music 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Prelude (The Birds)

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Fri 11 Jul 2025 06:30