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Start the day on the right note 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

Tue 15 Jul 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Sonate Champetre: II. Andantino

    Ensemble: Tailleferre Ensemble.
    • There are Things to be Said.
    • Ulysses Arts.
    • 2.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Symphony no.5 in B flat major Op.55 (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: José Serebrier.
    • Glazunov: Symphony no.5/The Seasons.
    • WARNER.
    • 2.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in F major, Op 74 No 2 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Overture in the french style in B minor, BWV 831; I. Ouverture

    Orchestra: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • ï.
  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Clio Gould.
    • English String Classics 2: Vaughan Williams/Warlock/Tippet/Elgar etc.
    • Warner Apex.
    • 7.
  • Thomas Tallis

    O sacrum convivium

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • The Tallis Scholars sing Thomas Tallis.
    • Gimell Records.
    • 22.
  • François-Joseph Gossec

    Tambourin

    Performer: Şefika Kutluer. Performer: Craig Ogden.
    • Bizet - Ravel - Debussy - Fauré - Ibert: Carmen Fantasy for Flute & Piano.
    • VDE-GALLO.
    • 5.
  • Philip Glass

    Violin Concerto no.1 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV 425

    Performer: Giovanni Scaramuzzino. Orchestra: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • Vivaldi: Concerti per mandolini: Europa Galante/Biondi.
    • Virgin Veritas.
    • 16-18.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Much Ado About Nothing Suite; Garden Scene

    Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Performer: Piers Lane. Music Arranger: Raphael Wallfisch.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Gondoliers : Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Sullivan: Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture (Suite) in A major TWV 55:a2 (Minuets I & II; Rejouissance)

    Performer: Erik Bosgraaf. Ensemble: Cordevento.
    • Brilliant Classics 95248.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 11.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    English folk song suite for military band (arr for orchestra)

    Music Arranger: Gordon Jacob. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • ONYX.
  • Gabriela Montero

    Piano Concerto No. 1, "Latin" (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Gabriela Montero. Performer: Orchestra of the Americas. Performer: Carlos Miguel Prieto.
    • Orchid Classics.
  • Leopold Mozart

    Symphony in G Major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Toronto Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin Mallon.
    • Mozart, L.: Toy Symphony / Symphony in G Major, "Neue Lambacher" / Symphonies, E.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • Johann Strauss II

    The Blue Danube

    Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • Johann Strauss Concert.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.
  • Robert Schumann

    Six Studies in Canon Form Op. 56: 1,2 & 3

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Music Arranger: Claude Debussy.
    • Live from Buenos Aires - Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 1-3.
  • Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco

    Guitar Concerto no.1 in D major Op.99 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: John Williams. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • Guitar Concertos by Rodrigo, Villa-Lobos and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Orfeo.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Magnificat BWV 243a: Fecit potentiam; Sicut locutus est; Gloria Patri

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Director: John Butt. Singer: Joanne Lunn. Singer: Julia Doyle. Singer: Clare Wilkinson. Singer: Nicholas Mulroy. Singer: Matthew Brook.
    • Linn.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    6 Character pieces (No.5)

    Performer: Béatrice Rauchs.
    • BIS.

Broadcast

  • Tue 15 Jul 2025 06:30