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Birdsong and Bach to banish those morning blues

Linton Stephens 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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3 hours

Last on

Wed 6 Aug 2025 06:30

Music Played

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Romance, Op.67

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach.
    • RCA.
  • Thomas Tallis

    If ye love me

    Choir: Chapelle du Roi. Conductor: Alistair Dixon.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in D major, K203 'Serenata Colloredo' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Roberto González-Monjas. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg. Orchestra: Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg.
    • Berlin Classics.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse lyrique Op.96 no.1

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Sibelius: Violin concerto, Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela and other works.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 8.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata No. 6 for Violin & Harpsichord in G Major, BWV 1019: III. Allegro

    Performer: Zoltán Kocsis.
    • Hungaroton.
  • Rebecca Dale

    The Lost Composers (Fortissima)

    Performer: Raphaela Gromes. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Anna Rakitina.
    • The Lost Composers (Fortissima).
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Vltava (Ma Vlast)

    Orchestra: Symfonický orchestr hlavního města Prahy FOK. Conductor: Libor Pešek.
    • Dvorak: New World Symphony: Prague Symphony Orchestra/Pesek.
    • Sony.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G Minor Op.23 No.5

    Performer: Nicholas McCarthy. Music Arranger: Nicholas McCarthy.
    • Left Note Records.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Perpetuum Mobile, Op. 257

    Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Here Come the Classics, Vol. 12: The Glory of Vienna.
    • RPO.
    • 16.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Griselda (Sinfonia)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Matheus. Conductor: Jean‐Christophe Spinosi.
    • Naive.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Piano Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 15: I. Allegro con brio

    Performer: David Adams. Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio.
    • Stanford: Piano Trio No. 2 & Piano Quartet No. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 5.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Petite Messe Solennelle (Kyrie)

    Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Performer: Daniele Rossi. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle.
    • EMI.
    • 1-2.
  • Charlie Chaplin

    Modern Times: Smile (Arr. for Violin and Piano by Quint & Coleman)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Guillaume Bellom. Music Arranger: Charles Coleman. Music Arranger: Philippe Quint.
    • Un violon à Paris.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 20.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Dance of the Mirlitons)

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 7.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Simply Symphony (Sentimental Sarabande)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Britten: The Young Person's Guide etc: LSO/ECO/Britten.
    • Decca.
  • Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge

    Harlequin (Carnival Suite)

    Performer: Rochelle Sennet.
    • Bach To Black: Suites for Piano, Vol. II.
    • Albany Records.
    • 51.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    Alma redemptoris mater

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso No. 1 in D Major, Op. 6, No. 1: I. Largo - Allegro, II. Largo -

    Ensemble: La Petite Bande. Conductor: Sigiswald Kuijken. Conductor: Sigiswald Kuijken.
    • Corelli - Concerti Grossi Op. 6.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Carl Orff

    Ecce gratum (Carmina burana)

    Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Orff: Carmina Burana.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 5.
  • Nino Rota

    Nonetto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Daishin Kashimoto. Performer: Joaquín Riguelme García. Performer: Claudio Bohórquez. Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Paul Meyer. Performer: François Meyer. Performer: Gilbert Audin. Performer: Benoît de Barsony. Performer: Olivier Thiery.
    • Nino Rota: Chamber Music.
    • Alpha.
    • 9.
  • Claude Debussy

    Estampes; no.3; Jardins sous la pluie

    Performer: Melvyn Tan.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Othello, Op. 79 - V. Military March

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Fawzi Haimor.
    • Coleridge-Taylor.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 5.
  • Richard Wagner

    Siegfried Idyll

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Gordon Langford

    Prelude, Polonaise, and Promenade for Brass Quintet

    Ensemble: Onyx Brass. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Transatlantic.
    • Chandos.
  • Anon.

    Danza del hacha

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Villancicos y danzas criollas 1550-1750: Hesperion XXI/Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Eternal source of light divine (Birthday ode for Queen Anne)

    Singer: Lea Desandre. Singer: Iestyn Davies. Ensemble: Jupiter. Conductor: Thomas Dunford.
    • Eternal Heaven.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Wed 6 Aug 2025 06:30