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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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Music Played

  • Jonathan Dove

    Seek Him that Maketh the Seven Stars

    Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Performer: Glen Dempsey. Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Locus Iste.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 701.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Fantasien, Op. 116: VI. Intermezzo

    Performer: Anna Tsybuleva.
    • Fantasien.
    • Champs Hill Records.
    • 12.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Czech Suite, Op 39 (Romance)

    Performer: Antal Doráti. Performer: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.
    • Dvorak: Czech Suite, Prague Waltzes etc: Detroit SO, Dorati.
    • Decca.
    • 4.
  • Johann David Heinichen

    Pastorale in A major

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Concerti "per l'orchestra di Dresda": Musica Antiqua Koln.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 16.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No 2 in D minor for violin, BWV 1004 (Courante)

    Performer: Viktoria Mullova.
    • Bach: 6 Sonatas & Partitas.
    • Onyx.
    • 2.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Rhapsodie Sur Un Thème De Paganini: Variation 18

    Performer: Alain Lefèvre. Conductor: Matthias Bamert. Conductor: Matthias Bamert. Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.
    • Le Must Compilation, Vol. 14.
    • Analekta.
    • 14.
  • William Grant Still

    Suite for Violin & Piano: 2. Mother and Child, 3. Gamin

    Performer: Max Zorin. Performer: Vincent Balse.
    • Navona.
  • Seckou Keita

    Simply Beautiful Miro (Arr. by Davide Mantovani)

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe. Performer: Suntou Susso. Conductor: Mark Heron. Orchestra: ѿý Concert Orchestra. Singer: Seckou Keita.
    • Simply Beautiful Miro (Arr. by Davide Mantovani).
    • Claves Records.
    • 1.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48: 5. Agnus Dei

    Choir: The Choir of St John's Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: George Guest.
    • Fauré: Requiem/Duruflé: Requiem/Poulenc: Motets.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in F major, RV.293, 'Autumn'

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Vivaldi: Nigel Kennedy, Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • EMI.
    • 10.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Op. 43: No. 16, Finale

    Conductor: Charles Mackerras. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
    • Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus.
    • Hyperion.
    • 18.
  • George Gershwin

    Lullaby

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony no.3 in D major D.200 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Phi.
  • Teresa Carreño

    Ballade, Op 15

    Performer: Alexandra Oehler.
    • Teresa Carreno: Klavierwerke (Piano works).
    • Ars Musici.
    • 002.
  • Mikis Theodorakis

    Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra: IV. Calliope

    Performer: Sebastian Hess. Orchestra: The Nuremberg Symphony. Conductor: John Carewe.
    • Theodorakis: Rhapsodies For Cello And Guitar.
    • intuition.
    • 4.
  • Max Bruch

    Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.26 (3rd movement: Finale)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Erato.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No.7; 4th mvt

    Performer: Vadym Kholodenko.
  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Organ Symphony No 5: Toccata

    Performer: Iveta Apkalna.
    • OEHMS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, Act 2: Chorus. "Galatea, dry thy tears" (Chorus)

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • Handel Edition Volume 8 - Acis and Galatea, Theodora, Agrippina condotta a morir.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 30.
  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness, Op. 89 No. 1

    Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • British Classical Masterpieces.
    • Naxos Special Projects.
    • 19.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No. 6 in A Major, WAB 106 (Nowak Edition): I. Majestoso

    Conductor: Christian Thielemann. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Bruckner: Complete Symphonies Edition.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesfreud

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Music Arranger: Sergey Rachmaninov.
    • Transcriptions & Paraphrases: Live Recordings (Edition Ruhr Piano Festival,.
    • Cavi-Music.
    • 17.
  • Ola Gjeilo

    Northern Lights

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Thunder and Lightning, Op 324

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • Champagne and Laughter: The Music of Johann Strauss II.
    • EMI.
    • 17.

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