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Brighten your day 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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Music Played

  • Ronald Binge

    Sailing By

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • Hyperion.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 1

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes and Impromptus: Angela Hewitt, piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Josef Suk

    Serenade for Strings, Op.6 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Warren‐Green.
    • Signum Classics.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita in C minor, BWV 997: mvts 3-5

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Delphian.
  • Scott Joplin

    The Entertainer

    Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: André Previn.
    • Scott Joplin: The Easy Winners: Previn, Perlman.
    • EMI.
    • 6.
  • Ēriks Ešenvalds

    Stars

    Choir: VOCES8.
    • Lux.
    • Decca.
    • 7.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 17 in G major, K 453 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Maria João Pires. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart; Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Maria Pires - Piano.
    • DGG.
    • 2.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quintet No.1 in A major, Op.18 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • Mendelssohn: The String Quintets.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.
  • Jeremiah Clarke

    Trumpet voluntary (The Prince of Denmark's March)

    Performer: Peter Hurford. Music Arranger: Peter Hurford. Ensemble: Michael Laird Brass Ensemble.
    • Trumpet Voluntary.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Adagio from Sleeping Beauty

    Performer: Andrey Gugnin. Music Arranger: Mikhail Pletnev.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Violin Concerto in D minor Op.47 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Johan Dalene. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds. Conductor: John Storgårds.
    • Nielsen & Sibelius: Violin Concertos.
    • BIS.
    • 203.
  • Amy Beach

    From Blackbird Hills Op.83

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Amy Beach: Piano Music Volume 3.
    • GUILD.
    • 11.
  • Edward Elgar

    The Wand of Youth Suite no.1 (Fairy Pipers)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Capriccio.
  • Richard Strauss

    Also Sprach Zarathustra Op.30 (Introduction)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Orfeo.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Sonata a 6 for trumpet, violins, violas and bc

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Director: Andrew Manze.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Paul Schoenfield

    Four Parables (Dog Heaven)

    Performer: Jeffrey Kahane. Ensemble: New World Symphony. Conductor: John Nelson.
    • ARGO.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 102 in B flat major (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 1.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Berceuse (Dolly Suite)

    Performer: Andreas Brantelid. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • BIS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Quintet in B Minor Op.115 (4th mvt)

    Performer: Thorsten Johanns. Ensemble: Aris Quartett.
    • Brahms: String Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 51 No. 1 & Clarinet Quintet in B Mi.
    • Genuin.
    • 501.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Ombra mai fu (Serse)

    Performer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.
    • Andreas Scholl - Heroes.
    • DECCA.
    • 2.
  • William Walton

    Portsmouth Point

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Joseph Horovitz

    Sonatina (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • Chandos.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor BWV.232 (Agnus Dei; Dona Nobis Pacem)

    Singer: Michael Chance. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in C minor, D 958

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Sabre Dance (Gayaneh)

    Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Ballets russes.
    • Parlophone (France).
    • 6.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cello Concerto in G minor, RV 417

    Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Kraemer.
    • Vivaldi, Cello Concerti Vol. 4.
    • NAXOS.
    • 16-18.

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