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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

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in B flat major K.361 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: LSO Wind Ensemble.
    • MOZART Serenade No 10 for winds Gran Partita.
    • LSO Live.
    • 3.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Romance in E flat Op.11

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Warren‐Green.
    • Music for a Royal Celebration.
    • Quartz.
    • 08.
  • Florence Price

    Piano Sonata in E minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Althea Waites.
    • Black Diamonds.
    • Cambria.
    • 002.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Erbarme dich, erbarme dich (Cantata No 55)

    Singer: James Gilchrist. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • J.S. Bach, Cantatas Vol 12: Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.
    • 3.
  • Christian Sinding

    The Rustle of spring Op.32 no.3

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • Norwegian Classical Favourites: Iceland Symphony Orchestra/Engeset.
    • Naxos.
    • 3.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Sinfonia concertante in B flat major H.1.105 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • Hyperion.
  • Pietro Mascagni

    Intermezzo (Cavalleria rusticana)

    Performer: Nicholas McCarthy. Music Arranger: Nicholas McCarthy.
    • Solo.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 2.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Dixit Dominus primo (Selva morale e spirituale)

    Ensemble: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite; 1vt mvt Praeludium

    Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Richard Tognetti.
    • BIS.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe Concerto in F Minor, TWV 51:f1 (Trans. for Piccolo Trumpet and Baroque Orchestra)

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: Pinnock's Players. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Baroque Concertos.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Benjamin Britten

    The Prince of the Pagodas, Act 3: Pas de Deux . Belle Rose and the Prince of the

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Kahchun Wong.
    • Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas.
    • Halle Concerts Society.
    • 39.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Song to the Moon from Rusalka, arr. for cello & orchestra

    Performer: Pablo Ferrández. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Frost.
    • Rusalka, Op. 114, Act I: Song to the Moon.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Prelude in B major, Op 16 No 1

    Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Roland Pöntinen. Music Arranger: Martin Frost. Music Arranger: Roland Pöntinen.
    • Frost and Friends.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Semele - 'Where 'er you walk'

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • DG.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 5 in E flat major, Op 82 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka‐Pekka Saraste. Conductor: Jukka‐Pekka Saraste.
    • Sibelius : Symphonies 1 & 5 - Live in St. Petersburg.
    • Fazer.
  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    Piano Sonata in B flat minor [1905] (1st mvt)

    Performer: Vadym Kholodenko.
    • Melodiya.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Spring, RV.269 [The Four Seasons]

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.
    • CHANNEL.
  • Franz Schubert

    Erlkönig D.328

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau. Performer: Gerald Moore.
    • EMI.
  • Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek

    Donna Diana Overture

    Performer: Black Dyke Band. Music Arranger: Howard Lorriman. Conductor: Nicholas Childs.
    • OBRASSO.
  • William Brade

    Ein Schottisch Tanz

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27; 3. Adagio

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.
    • Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.
  • Luise Adolpha Le Beau

    Cello Sonata Op.17 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Connie Shih.
    • HYPERION.
  • Hubert Parry

    I Was Glad

    Choir: Gabrieli Roar. Ensemble: Chetham's School of Music Symphonic Brass Ensemble. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort. Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: David Chatterton.
    • An English Coronation, 1902-1953.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1001.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.4 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Verità Baroque.
    • Evil Penguin.

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