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Boost your morning 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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Tue 22 Jul 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • John Ireland

    String Quartet No.2 in C minor (2nd mvt: Nocturne)

    Ensemble: Maggini Quartet.
    • Naxos.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Ave maris stella

    Lyricist: Anon.. Choir: VOCES8.
    • TWENTY.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 9.
  • Henry Litolff

    Concerto symphonique No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 123: II. Largo

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Conductor: Andrew Litton. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Litolff: Concertos symphoniques Nos. 3 & 5 (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 26).
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Nonet in F minor, Op.2 (3rd mvt. Scherzo)

    Ensemble: Chineke! Chamber Ensemble.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 26.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chorale Preludes: Herzlich tut mich verlangen, BWV 727

    Performer: Hans Fagius.
    • Bach, J.S.: Organ Music (Complete), Vol. 6.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Gustav Holst

    St Paul's Suite op.29 No. 2: Jig

    Performer: Angèle Dubeau. Ensemble: La Pietà.
    • Let's Dance.
    • Analekta.
    • 5.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Rob Roy Overture, H. 54

    Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
    • Berlioz: Harold in Italy etc..
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.
  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Concerto in D major (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Mark Bennett. Performer: Andrew Clark. Performer: Paul Goodwin. Performer: Lorraine Wood. Performer: Alberto Grazzi. Performer: Sally Jackson. Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Fasch: Concertos/Orchestral suite: The English Concert/Pinnock.
    • Archiv Produktion.
  • Maria Theresia von Paradis

    Sicilienne (Arr. for violin and piano by Samuel Dushkin)

    Performer: Maya Magub. Performer: Maya Magub. Performer: Hsin‐I Huang. Performer: Hsin‐I Huang.
    • Consolations - Liszt: Six Consolations & Other Reflective Pieces for Violin.
    • CRD.
    • 13.
  • Léo Delibes

    Mazurka from "Coppélia"

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Delibes: Coppélia / Chopin: Les Sylphides / Gounod: Faust Ballet Music.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Nicola Fiorenza

    Concertone per violino solo in D Major: In tempo giusto

    Performer: Gabriele Pro. Orchestra: Enea Barock Orchestra.
    • Arion.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Miroirs, M. 43: V. La vallée des cloches (Orch. Grainger)

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • Grainger - In a Nutshell.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488: III. Allegro assai

    Performer: Khatia Buniatishvili. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek

    Symphony in D Major (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Arriaga & Voříšek: Symphonies.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsodies, S.244 - No. 2 in C sharp minor

    Performer: Misha Dichter.
    • Classical Study: Liszt.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 158.
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat mater in F minor (opening)

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Singer: Christopher Lowrey. Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Conductor: Christophe Rousset.
    • PERGOLESI - Stabat Mater.
    • ALPHA.
    • 1.
  • Pauline Viardot

    Hai Luli!, VWV 1106 (Arr. for Violin, Harp and String Quintet)

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Performer: Lavinia Meijer. Music Arranger: Jan-Peter Klöpfel. Ensemble: Esther Abrami.
    • Women.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 4.
  • Henry Purcell

    Rondeau (Abdelazer)

    Ensemble: The Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Rondeaux Royaux: The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.
  • Mary Offer

    The Living Fire

    Lyricist: Ella Curry. Choir: The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge. Conductor: Benjamin Sheen.
    • The Living Fire.
    • CRD.
    • 10.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 6 in B Minor, "Pathétique" (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 & The Nightingale.
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 103.
  • Johannes Brahms

    4 Ballades, Op 10: No 2

    Performer: Alexandre Kantorow.
    • Brahms: Piano Works.
    • BIS.
    • 102.
  • Edward Elgar

    Cockaigne (In London Town) - Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • BIS.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in E minor, RV.133

    Performer: Adrian Chandler. Ensemble: La Serenissima.
    • Vivaldi: The French Connection 2.
    • Avie.
    • 17.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-Flat Major, Op. 22: III. Menuetto

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
    • The Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 203.
  • Darius Milhaud

    Brazileira (Scaramouche)

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Andee Birkett. Performer: Zeynep Özsuca. Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Decca Classics.
  • Joseph Haydn

    The Creation: 'Die himmel erzahlen die Ehre Gottes'

    Singer: Christina Landshamer. Singer: Maximilian Schmitt. Singer: Rudolf Rosen. Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs‐Élysées. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • PHI.

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  • Tue 22 Jul 2025 06:30