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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

  • Sir Arthur Somervell

    Violin Concerto in G Minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Anthony Marwood. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • Coleridge-Taylor & Somervell: Violin Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Violin Concert.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Dove sei, amato bene [Rodelinda - Act 1]

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.
    • Handel: Ombra mai fu: Andreas Scholl/Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 16.
  • John Field

    Nocturne No.5 in B flat

    Performer: David Quigley.
    • AVIE.
  • Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Sussex landscape, Op.27 (2nd mvt & 3rd mvts)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.
    • Decca.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Duo in C Major for Violin & Viola, JS 66

    Performer: Jaakko Kuusisto. Performer: Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic.
    • The Sibelius Edition, Vol. 9: Chamber Music II.
    • BIS.
    • 3.
  • Eric Whitacre

    Lux aurumque

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.
  • Arvo Pärt

    Cantate Domino [Psalm 96]

    Choir: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Performer: Christopher Bowers-Broadbent. Conductor: Tõnu Kaljuste.
    • Musica baltica.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 49.
  • Scott Joplin

    Solace "A Mexican Serenade"

    Music Arranger: Jacqueline Thomas. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Golden Oldies - More Favourite Encores.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 15.
  • Madeleine Dring

    Danza gaya (Arr. for Oboe & Piano by Roger Lord)

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Antonio Oyarzabal.
    • Dring: Complete Works for Oboe.
    • Chandos Records Ltd.
    • 7.
  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in G flat major, D 899 No 3

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • Schubert, Live, Volume 3: Imogen Cooper.
    • Avie.
    • 3.
  • Joe Hisaishi

    Viola Saga: Movement 1 (Pt. 1)

    Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor: Joe Hisaishi.
    • Joe Hisaishi in Vienna.
    • Universal Music LLC.
    • 1.
  • Agustín Barrios Mangoré

    Maxixe

    Performer: Antigoni Goni.
    • Naxos.
  • David Schweitzer

    Emma Suite

    Composer: Isobel Waller-Bridge.
    • EMMA. (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Universal City Studios LLC.
    • 35.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Grande valse brillante

    Orchestrator: Igor Stravinsky. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Bis.
  • Gerald Finzi

    It Was a Lover and His Lass

    Music Arranger: John Dankworth. Singer: Cleo Laine. Ensemble: The Johnny Dankworth Seven.
    • Basement Bop, Vol. 2.
    • Supreme Media.
    • 10.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Four Cornish Dances, Op 91

    Conductor: Malcolm Arnold. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Malcolm Arnold: English, Irish, Scottish & Cornish Dances: LPO/Arnold.
    • Lyrita.
    • 19.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    La Travagliata Op.2 no.11

    Performer: Toby Carr. Singer: Helen Charlston.
    • Battle Cry: She Speaks.
    • DELPHIAN.
    • 12.
  • Yu-Peng Chen

    Summer Fantasy (From "Justice Online")

    Conductor: Yu-Peng Chen. Orchestra: Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Summer Fantasy (From “Justice Online”).
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op 70 (2nd mvt)

    Conductor: Iván Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra.
    • Dvorak:Symphony no. 7 Suite in A major,Budapest Festival Orchestra,Ivan Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.22 in E flat major K.482 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jonathan Bliss. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 21 & 22.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Le roi malgré lui: Danse slave

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • MERCURY.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka "Triqui Traqui"

    Music Arranger: Paul Desenne. Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Self release by Gustavo Dudamel.

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  • Sat 26 Jul 2025 06:30