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The finest classical music to elevate your morning

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

  • Trad.

    The lark in the clear air

    Music Arranger: John Rutter. Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • The Sprig of Thyme traditional songs.
    • Collegium.
  • Andreas Romberg

    Violin Concerto no.12 in G minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Chouchane Siranossian. Orchestra: Capriccio Baroque Orchestra.
    • Alpha.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Lever du Jour (Daphnis et Chloe)

    Choir: Ensemble vocal Aedes. Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.
    • Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 301.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord, BWV1027 (concluding movements)

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Ton Koopman.
    • AVIE.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 "Jupiter": I. Allegro vivace

    Conductor: Riccardo Minasi. Ensemble: Ensemble Resonanz.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41 "Jupiter".
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 201.
  • Jean Sibelius

    The Swan of Tuonela (Leminkainen Suite, Op 22)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony no.4 in A major, Op.90 'Italian' (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino for harp and orchestra (3rd mvt. Rondo)

    Performer: Nicanor Zabaleta. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • Boieldieu / Saint-Saëns / Tailleferre / Ravel: Harp Concertos.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 10.
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Petite suite de concert Op.77 (La caprice de Nannette)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.
    • African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume 1.
    • CEDILLE.
    • 2.
  • Eduard Kuenneke

    Dance Suite for jazz band and large orchestra, Op 26

    Conductor: Ernst Theis. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden.
    • CPO.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    貹ñ

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Leaper.
    • The Best of Adrian Leaper.
    • Naxos Special Projects.
    • 110.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto no.3 in D minor Op.30 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Eleanor Daley

    Upon Your Heart

    Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir. Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Choir: Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Conductor: Anna Lapwood.
    • All Things are Quite Silent.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 13.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Mambo (West Side Story)

    Conductor: Marin Alsop. Conductor: Marin Alsop. Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra.
    • Bernstein: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Suite, Slava!, CBS Music & A Bernstein Birth.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Armide (Overture)

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Archiv.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Steffan Morris. Performer: Alasdair Beatson.
    • Brahms: Cello Sonatas - Stanford: Ballata.
    • Rubicon.
    • 3.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Gloria in excelsis Deo (Gloria)

    Ensemble: Polyphony. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Director: Stephen Layton.
    • Poulenc - Gloria; Motets.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1-2.
  • 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.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)

    Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Great Opera Choruses: London Symphony Chorus, LSO, Hickox.
    • I.M.P. Classics.
    • 9.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Rückert-Lieder: No. 3, "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen"

    Singer: Joyce DiDonato. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro. Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
    • EDEN (Deluxe Edition).
    • Warner Classics.
    • 13.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Study in C minor, Op 10 No 12 (Revolutionary Study)

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.
    • Chopin: Études, Opp. 10 & 25.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 12.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

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