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The finest classical music to elevate your morning

Tom McKinney presents Radio 3鈥檚 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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Music Played

  • Ronald Binge

    Elizabethan Serenade

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • HYPERION.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in C minor K.388 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas. Director: Peter Whelan.
    • LINN.

  • Joan Trimble

    The Bard of Lisgoole

    Ensemble: Roy Holmes. Ensemble: Una Hunt.
    • Trimble: 2 Pianos - Songs and Chamber Music.
    • Marco-Polo.
    • 17.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Preise dein Gl眉cke, gesegnetes Sachsen (Canata BWV.215)

    Choir: Bach Collegium Japan Chorus. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Bach: Celebratory Cantatas.
    • BIS.
    • 12.

  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: C茅cile Licad.
    • Encores as performed by Pablo Casals: Gerhardt/Licad.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.

  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Suite in F sharp minor, Op.19 (2nd mvt: Scherzo)

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Adam Schoenberg

    Picture Studies (Pigeons in Flight)

    Orchestra: Kansas City Symphony. Conductor: Michael Stern.
    • Adam Schoenberg: American Symphony, Finding Rothko & Picture Studies.
    • Reference Recordings.
    • 310.

  • Nicolas Gombert

    Ave Maria

    Ensemble: Brabant Ensemble. Director: Stephen Rice.
    • Tribulato et angustia 鈥� Four and five part motets by Nicolas Gombert.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe d'amore concerto in E minor TWV.51:e2

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Berlin Baroque Soloists. Director: Rainer Kussmaul.
    • Telemann: Concertos: Berlin Baroque Soloists/Kussmaul.
    • EMI.
    • 1-3.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 4 in B flat major, Op 60 (3rd mvt)

    Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Singer: Charlotte Margiono. Singer: Rudolf Schasching. Singer: Birgit Remmert. Singer: Robert Holl. Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Conductor: Erwin Ortner.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.
    • 3.

  • Franz Liszt

    Fr眉hlingsglaube, S. 558/7 (After Schubert, D. 686)

    • Alexandre Kantorow plays Brahms and Schubert.
    • BIS.
    • 7.

  • Doreen Carwithen

    Orford Ness (Suffolk Suite)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (A German Requiem)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Petite Suite (Nocturne)

    Orchestrator: Alexander Glazunov. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • Borodin: Requiem: Philharmonia Orchestra/蜜芽传媒 Symphony Chorus/Simon.
    • Cala.
    • 14.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Quintet for Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Cello & Piano in D Major: II. Intermezzo

    • Vaughan Williams: Early Chamber Music.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in D major, Op 46 No 6

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Dvorak: Slavonic Dances.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 6.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Four Scottish Dances, Op 59

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Florence Price

    Silk Hat and Walking Cane (Dances in the Canebrakes)

    Music Arranger: William Grant Still. Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Mei-Ann Chen.
    • Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers.
    • Cedille.
    • 103.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Waltz of the Flowers)

    Music Arranger: Nicolas Economou. Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nicolas Economou.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto in G Minor, BWV.1056R

    Performer: Thibault Noally. Ensemble: Les Accents.
    • Bach & Co.
    • 础辫补谤迟茅.
    • 108.

  • George Fenton

    The Snow Leopard (From "Planet Earth") [Arr. B. Robson for Clarinet, Viola & Piano]

    Performer: Barnaby Robson. Performer: Rebecca Chambers. Performer: Simon Chamberlain.
    • 1 2 3 11.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 301.

  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Sevilla (Suite espa帽ola)

    Music Arranger: John Williams. Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3 New Generation Artists.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 "Classical"

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 1-3.
    • BIS.
    • 101.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Locus iste

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat major, Op 33 No 2, 'The Joke' (Finale)

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Chandos.

  • Arturo M谩rquez

    Danz贸n no.2

    Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Broadcast

  • Fri 25 Jul 2025 06:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3