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Rise and shine with classical music

Mark Forrest presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. With birdsong and the best in classical music. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Max Bruch

    Romance for viola and orchestra Op.85

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Love in her eyes sits playing (Acis and Galatea)

    Singer: Allan Clayton. Ensemble: Early Opera Company. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.
    • Acis And Galatea.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 9.
  • Barry Seaman

    White Bird Flying

    Performer: Duncan Honeybourne.
    • ASC Records.
  • Leo Clement Philibert Delibes

    Sylvia, ou La Nymphe de Diane Suite, Act III: No. 16a, Pizzicati

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Delibes: Suites from the Ballets.
    • Chandos Records Limited.
    • 4.
  • William Byrd

    Mass a 5; Agnus Dei

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort.
    • Delphian.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    August (The Year)

    Performer: Lauma Skride.
    • Sony.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64: 3rd movement; Valse (Allegro moderato)

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet.
    • Naxos Music UK Ltd.
  • Arvo Pärt

    Fratres (Arr. for Viols by Richard Boothby)

    Music Arranger: Richard Boothby. Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Fratres (Arr. for Viols by Richard Boothby).
    • Platoon.
    • 101.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto in E Flat Major, K. 107: I. Allegro

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesus, bleibet meine Freude (Cantata No 147)

    Lyricist: Martin Jahn. Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben - Bach: Cantatas BWV 6-99-147.
    • Phi.
    • 18.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Quartet movement in A minor

    Ensemble: Skride Piano Quartet.
    • ORFEO.
  • Anon.

    Sumer is icumen in

    Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Van Nevel.
    • En Albion: Medieval Polyphony in England.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 5.
  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Canario (Fantasía para un gentilhombre)

    Performer: Miloš Karadaglić. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin.
    • Milos Karadaglic - Aranjuez.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op.64`5 'The Lark' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • AVI MUSIC.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Ballade in A Minor, Op.33 (1st mvt: Allegro energico, ma non troppo)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kalena Bovell.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 13.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Ballade in A minor, Op.33 (2nd mvt: A tempo - Tranquillo e molto)

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kalena Bovell.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 14.
  • Alexis Ffrench

    Glow

    Performer: Alexis Ffrench.
    • Grace.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Franz Schubert

    Octet in F major D.803 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Anne Katharina Schreiber. Performer: Danusha Waskiewicz. Performer: Kristin von der Goltz. Performer: James Munro. Performer: Lorenzo Coppola. Performer: Teunis van der Zwart. Performer: Javier Zafra.
    • Schubert: Oktett.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 3.
  • André Campra

    Requiem: III.Gradual

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • Campra Requiem & Miserere.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 4.
  • Amilcare Ponchielli

    La Gioconda, Act III: Dance of the Hours

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Domingo Hindoyan.
    • Verismo.
    • Onyx Classics.
    • 1.
  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Étude No 38 in A Minor

    Performer: Clare Hammond.
    • Hélène de Montgeroult: Études.
    • BIS.
    • 7.
  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de Matin Op. 15, No. 2

    Performer: Alexander Ffinch. Music Arranger: Sir Herbert Brewer.
    • Parallels.
    • Divine Art.
    • 14.

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