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Breakfast with the best classical music

Emma Clarke presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Quartet in G Major, K 285a

    Performer: James Galway. Ensemble: Tokyo String Quartet.
    • RCA.
  • Ivo Antognini

    Come to me for chorus

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Singer: Helena Paish. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • Ethel Smyth

    Serenade in D Major: III. Allegretto grazioso

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Odaline de la Martínez.
    • Smyth: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • 103.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    2 Nocturnes Op.27 (no.2 in D flat major)

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Nelson Freire: Chopin, Villa-Lobos.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90, 'Italian' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Mendelssohn: Symphonies 3 & 4: Norrington/London Classical Players.
    • EMI.
    • 5.
  • Arnold Bax

    Winter Legends (3rd & 4th mvts)

    Performer: Ashley Wass. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Bax: Winter Legends: Ashley Wass, Bournemouth SO, James Judd.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Castor et Pollux (Overture)

    Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Director: Christophe Rousset.
    • L'OISEAU LYRE.
  • Claude Debussy

    En Bateau (Petite Suite)

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Paul Lewis.
    • Hyperion.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Hilary Hahn.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.
  • Florence Price

    An Elf on a Moonbeam

    Performer: Anna Lapwood.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Trad.

    Traditional: Charming Beauty bright

    Lyricist: Trad.. Music Arranger: Craig Leon. Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Andreas Scholl - Wayfaring Stranger - Folksongs.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 94 in G major "Surprise" (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • RCA.
  • Franz Schubert

    Polonaise No 2 in B flat major for piano duet, D 599

    Performer: Yaara Tal. Performer: Andreas Groethuysen.
    • Schubert - Four Polonaises, D.599 No 2 in B flat major.
    • Sony Classical.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550: I. Molto allegro

    Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne.
    • Orchestral Music: South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra (Norrington) (Best.
    • SWR Classic.
    • 16.
  • Jean‐Marie Leclair

    Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3: II. Andante

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Ensemble: Les Ombres.
    • Vivaldi, Leclair & Locatelli : Violin Concertos.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 12.
  • Jean‐Marie Leclair

    Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3: III. Allegro ma non tropo

    Performer: Théotime Langlois de Swarte. Ensemble: Les Ombres.
    • Vivaldi, Leclair & Locatelli : Violin Concertos.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 13.
  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Piano Quintet in D minor Op.7 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: I Giardini.
    • ALPHA.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Lascia ch'io pianga from Rinaldo

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • Erato.
  • Gabriel Pierné

    Piano Concerto in C minor, Op 12 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Duke Ellington

    That Doo-wah Thing

    Performer: Lewis Nash. Performer: Geri Allen. Performer: Regina Carter. Performer: Clark Terry. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Singer: Peter Washington. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • EMI.
  • Louis Spohr

    Nonet in F major Op.31 (Finale)

    Ensemble: Ensemble 360.
    • Spohr: Septet and Nonet: Ensemble 360.
    • ASV.
    • 4.
  • Anna Clyne

    Cello Concerto, 'Dance' (3rd mvt, 'in the middle of the fighting')

    Performer: Inbal Segev. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Anna Clyne: DANCE - Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto.
    • AVIE Records.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Sat 19 Jul 2025 06:30