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Emma Clarke presents Radio 3’s Breakfast show live from Salford. You can contact the show by emailing 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk

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Music Played

  • Richard Strauss

    Serenade in E flat major, Op.7

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Conductor: David Zinman. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • Strauss: Orchestral Works: Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich/Zinman.
    • Arte Nova Classics.
    • 14.
  • Fritz Kreisler

    Schön Rosmarin, old Viennese dance no.3 for violin and piano

    Performer: Benjamin Baker. Performer: Robert Thompson.
    • Champs Hill Records.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D major for lute and 2 violins, RV 93 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Ugo Orlandi. Orchestra: I Solisti Veneti. Conductor: Claudio Scimone.
    • The Magic of the Mandoline - Greatest Concertos. Mandoline and string orchestra.
    • Erato.
    • 7.
  • William Grant Still

    Serenade

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Avlana Eisenberg.
    • Still: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.
  • Frederick Delius

    La Calinda (Koanga)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • EMI.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Variations on a theme from Silvana, Op 33

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Music Arranger: Rainer Schottstädt. Orchestra: Philharmonia Zürich. Conductor: Franz Welser‐Möst.
    • A Night at the Opera: Sabine Meyer.
    • EMI Classics.
  • Gustav Holst

    Dream Tryst (Five Partsongs, Op 12)

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, London. Conductor: Joseph Fort.
    • Holst: The Cloud Messenger.
    • Delphian.
    • 19.
  • Dorothy Howell

    2 Pieces for Muted Strings

    Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Teresa Riveiro Böhm.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Serenade No 1 in D major, Op 11 (5th mvt, Scherzo)

    Conductor: Augustin Dumay. Orchestra: Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Brahms; Beethoven.
    • Onyx.
    • 5.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne in B major, Op.62 no.1

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Late Masterpieces, Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Karelia Suite Op.11 (Alla marcia)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Sibelius: Symphony No.5/Karelia Suite etc: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • Erato.
    • 6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Stephen Preston. Performer: Catherine Mackintosh. Performer: Christopher Hogwood. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6: Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 4.
  • Robert Schumann

    Kreisleriana, Op. 16: V. Sehr lebhaft

    • Schumann: Kreisleriana; Kinderszenen; Fantasiestücke.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Symphony in A minor, Op 8 (3rd mvmt, Scherzo)

    Orchestra: Aarhus Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Douglas Bostock.
    • ALTO.
  • Franz Schubert

    3 Pieces D.946 (no.3)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 21 in C major, K 467 (2nd mvt, Andante)

    Performer: Maria João Pires. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart; Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Maria Pires - Piano.
    • DGG.
    • 5.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The Young Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet: Boston Symphony Orchestra/Ozawa.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.
  • Mel Bonis

    Le Rêve de Cléopâtre (Cleopatra's Dream)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. Conductor: Leo Hussain.
    • Bru Zane.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wind Octet in E flat major, Op 103 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Mozzafiato. Conductor: Charles Neidich.
    • Beethoven: Chamber music for wind instruments: Mozzafiato/Neidich.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

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